Chen Xing, professor at the Voice and Opera Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, office director of bel canto teaching and research, and a postgraduate supervisor.
Chen was tutored by Zhao Jinghua and Zheng Huiqi at Gansu Art School and graduated in 1978. She studied under instruction of Professor Wei Xiu’e and Professor Ge Chaozhi at the SHCM and became a teacher of the school after her graudation in 1986 with excellent performance.
Chen has won the Excellent Performance Award at the 5th Shanghai Spring International Music Festival. She obtained the diploma for advanced opera from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She has acted leading roles in Mozart’s opera Marriage of Figaro, Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel, and Ermanno Wolf Ferrari’s opera Suzanne's Secret.
Chen has won the honor of the “Excellent Educator” of the SHCM for many times and was invited as the Chinese expert representative of the Shanghai International Opera Master Class. She also published a teaching material of Bel Canto for the country’s higher art colleges.
Chen has held concerts and lectures at the SHCM He Luting Concert Hall, East China Normal University, Hangzhou Normal University, Shandong College of Arts, Ningbo Grand Theatre, the Music Department of Shenzhen University and Shenzhen Grand Theater. In 2016, she held a concert to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her career as a teacher.
Many of her students have won awards at big international vocal competitions. Her student Han Peng won the first prize at Italy’s Virola International Opera Competition as a tenor. Baritone Wang Lifu was China’s only singer qualified for the 2011 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Tenor Zhang Long won the first prize at the Le Grand Prix de l’Opera and was enrolled by training centers of Bayerische Staatsoper and Salzburg Festival. Many of her students also work actively on stages or teach at colleges.
