Singing lessons from a Birmingham based opera singer

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I aim to help students develop their voices healthy while nurturing their passion for music. Although not everyone has an excellent singing gift, I believe that everyone can be an excellent performer on their own stage. I will teach students following their aptitude and will not be too harsh on students. However, I will treat every student fairly and will not leave anyone behind. I will set goals for students based on their level and have certain requirements. I hope that students can be happy in the learning process, truly master knowledge, and share music's truth, goodness, and beauty! I am glad that many of my students have achieved good results in examinations, including ABRSM and Trinity College London Grades and Diploma exams, and winning prizes in competitions, including Holmfirth Musical Festival, Newcastle-U-Lyme Festival of Music, Leamington Spa Competitive Festival, Hounslow Festival of Music, Longwell Green & Kingswood Performing Arts Festival, Coulsdon and Purley Festival, Basingstoke Music Festival, and more.

I consider myself to be a wide-ranging opera and concert soloist. Passionate about opera, I have sung more than 30 operatic roles and performed for opera companies in Asia and Europe in many major theatres and festivals, including Opera Hong Kong, Musica Viva, Winslow Hall Opera, OperaUpClose, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, Passaggio Oper, Opéra de Baugé and more. My operatic roles include Macbeth(Macbeth), Tonio(Pagliacci) and Escamillo(Carmen), among many others. On the concert platform, my past engagements include Haydn's Nelson Mas(Really Big Chorus/Hong Kong Police Choir), J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D Major(Hong Kong Oratorio Society/Village Voices UK), Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht(Hong Kong Oratorio Society), Handel's Messiah(Hong Kong SingFest), Faure's Requiem(Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society), Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem(The Guild Consort Choir). I received a postgraduate certificate from Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Hungary, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where I was awarded the St Clare Barfield Memorial Bowl for Operatic Distinction. Prior to that, I gained my Bachelor of Music from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

I am also an experienced singing teacher for all ages. Besides teaching singing privately for more than 10 years, I was also a music tutor at Parkland Music Limited, Greenery Music & Arts Centre and Canon Music & Arts Centre in Hong Kong. In 2016, I have successfully organized "No Vocalists Allowed" opera workshop, and coached non-vocal major students to sing and perform an opera scenes concert at the New Lecture Theatre at Birmingham Conservatoire. I have also worked as an assistant vocal coach in K. Wah Opera Hong Kong summer school programme 2017, where I trained young performers to participate in Elf the Musical Jr production.

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About Me

I consider myself to be a wide-ranging opera and concert soloist. Passionate about opera, I have sung more than 30 operatic roles and performed for opera companies in Asia and Europe in many major theatres and festivals, including Opera Hong Kong, Musica Viva, Winslow Hall Opera, OperaUpClose, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, Passaggio Oper, Opéra de Baugé and more. My operatic roles include Macbeth(Macbeth), Tonio(Pagliacci) and Escamillo(Carmen), among many others. On the concert platform, my past engagements include Haydn's Nelson Mas(Really Big Chorus/Hong Kong Police Choir), J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D Major(Hong Kong Oratorio Society/Village Voices UK), Felix Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht(Hong Kong Oratorio Society), Handel's Messiah(Hong Kong SingFest), Faure's Requiem(Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society), Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem(The Guild Consort Choir). I was a winner of numerous international singing competitions, including Hong Kong International Music Festival Vocal Competition, International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso, King's Peak International Music Competition, Odin International Music Competition, Swiss International Music Competition and Danubia Talents Liszt International Music Competition, to name a few.

I am also an experienced singing teacher for all ages. Besides teaching singing privately for more than 10 years, I was also a music tutor at Parkland Music Limited, Greenery Music & Arts Centre and Canon Music & Arts Centre in Hong Kong. In 2016, I have successfully organized "No Vocalists Allowed" opera workshop, and coached non-vocal major students to sing and perform an opera scenes concert at the New Lecture Theatre at Birmingham Conservatoire. I have also worked as an assistant vocal coach in K. Wah Opera Hong Kong summer school programme 2017. In 2021, I have been the adjudicator of the "Festival of Instrumental and Vocal Arts" International Online Music Competition, Russia. I am a member of the Hong Kong Music Tutors Union.

Education

The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Hungary (Postgraduate Certificate)
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Master of Music in Vocal Performance)
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Bachelor of Music (Honours)
The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (Diploma in Performing Arts (Music)

Experience / Qualifications

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE (HIGHLIGHTS)

OPERA SINGER

- The Lead Picker in Daniel Blanco Albert's Autohoodening II: The Rise of Captain Swing
Infinite Opera and Post workers theatre (2021)

- Sakyamuni, the Buddha in Anna Vienna Ho's The Monk of the River
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival (2021)

- Figaro in Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia
Bath Opera (2021)

- Don Pasquale in Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale
Opera Novella (2021)

- Sakyamuni, the Buddha in Anna Vienna Ho's Buddha and the Monkey King
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival (2020)

- Sharpless(Cover)/Bonze/Willow(puppeteer)/Commissioner in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly
OperaUpClose (2020)

- Giorgio Germont(Cover)/Baron Douphol in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata
Midland Opera (2019)

- Ferrando(Cover) in Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore
Opéra de Baugé (2019)

- Don Alfonso in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
Moonlight Opera (2019)

- Rigoletto(Cover)/Count Ceprano/Court Usher in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto
Bare Boards Opera (2019)

- Macbeth in Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth
Leeds Youth Opera (2019)

- Marco in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
London Gay Symphony Orchestra (2018)

- Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen
Midland Opera (2018)

- Marco in Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi
William Griffiths (2018)

- Don Magnifico in Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola
Red Earth Opera (2018)

- Lindorf/Coppélius/Miracle/Dapertutto/Hermann/Schlemil in Jacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Passaggio Oper (2018)

- Renato(Cover)/(Silvano in Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera
Winslow Hall Opera (2017)

- Don Basilio in Gioachino Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Opera Novella (2017)

- Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
Midland Opera (2016)

- Colline in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème
Midland Opera (2015)

- Baron Douphol in Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata
Musica Viva (2013)

- Young man 3 in Huang Ruo's Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Opera Hong Kong (2011)

CONCERT SOLOIST

- Virtual Voices Opera Gala
Oxford Opera Society (2021)

- Ein deutsches Requiem (Brahms)
The Guild Consort Choir (2019)

- FRENCH CONNECTION
Midland Opera (2019)

- Requiem (Fauré)
Chesterfield Co-operative Choral Society (2017)

- A Night of Celebration
Midland Opera (2017)

- Another Night at the Opera
Red Earth Opera (2017)

- Magnificat in D Major (JS Bach)
Village Voices (2016)

- Bass SoloMessiah (Handel)
Hong Kong SingFest (2015)

- Die erste Walpurgisnacht (Mendelssohn)
Hong Kong Oratorio Society (2013)

- Magnificat in D Major (JS Bach)
Hong Kong Oratorio Society (2013)

- Nelson Mass (Haydn)
The Really Big Chorus and Hong Kong Police Choir (2012)

RUANIST

- Anna Vienna Ho's opera "The Monk of the River" (Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021)
- "It Gets Lighter From Here", organized by Birmingham Opera Company and Culture Central in 2020
- Various community events, dinners, and cocktail parties(2008-Recent)
- Former member of:
Hong Kong Bright East Chinese Orchestra(2008-2012)
Sonata Chamber Orchestra(2008-2012)
Hong Kong City Chinese Orchestra(2010-2011)
Ng Wah Chinese Orchestra(2004-2008)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Private Music Tutor - Voice, Ruan阮, Liuqin柳琴, Theory (2008 - Recent)

Language Coach(2020)
Vopera - The Virtual Opera Project, UK

Assistant Vocal Coach(2017)
Opera Hong Kong

Producer/Artistic Director/Singing Teacher(2015 - 2016)
No Vocalists Allowed – the Opera Project, UK (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)

Music Tutor(2014 - 2015)
Parkland Music Limited, HK

Music Tutor(2010 - 2014)
Greenery Music & Arts Centre, HK

Music Instructor(2010 - 2011)
Canon Music & Arts Centre, HK

Adjudicator(2021)
"Festival of Instrumental and Vocal Arts" International Online Music Competition, Russia

Age

Infants (0-3 years old)

Preschool children (4-6 years old)

Children (7-12 years old)

Teenagers (13-17 years old)

Adults (18-64 years old)

Seniors (65+ years old)

Student level

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Duration