Chen, Jinxin
No. 10
Voice type: Baritone
Country: China
Date of birth: 8 November, 1989
The baritone finished his studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2018. Before that, he studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts between 2015 and 2017, as well as at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing between 2009 and 2014. His professors were Sebastian Vittucci, Ralf Döring, Eijiro Kai, Wang Xianlin and Tatara Michio. He performed at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in Vienna, at the Sougakudou Geidai Tokyo and at the Forbidden City Concert Hall (Zhongshan Park, Beijing). In concert, he appeared on stage of the concert hall in Chengdu, in Tallinn, in Vilnius and in Hamburg, among others. He won the Excellence Prize at the 4th Madama Butterfly International Concourse, Nagasaki in 2011, the 1st prize at the 2nd Chinese Students’ Song Contest in 2014, the Golden Prize at the 46th Japan Italian Singing Competition in 2016 and the 1st prize at the 35th Japan Soreiu Music Competition in 2017.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Im Rhein, im schönen Strome
Donizetti: Bella siccome un angelo – Malatesta’s aria from Don Pasquale
Verdi: Son io mio Carlo... Per me giunto... Io morrò – Rodrigo’s recitative and aria from Don Carlo
Semi-final
Giordano: Nemico della Patria?!... Un dì m’era di gioia – Gérard’s recitativo and aria from Andrea Chénier
Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo – Guglielmo’s aria from the Così fan tutte
Final
Tchaikovsky: Ya vas lyublyu – Yeletsky’s aria from The Queen of Spades
Verdi: Alzati! là tuo figlio… Eri tu che macchiavi quell’anima – Renato’s recitative and aria from Un ballo in maschera
Wagner: Wie Todesahnung… O du, mein holder Abendstern – Wolfram’s Song to the Evening Star from Tannhäuser