Professors

廖昌永 Liao Changyong

Liao Changyong, vice president of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and director of the Vocal Music and Opera Department of the SHCM, was a student of Professor Zhou Xiaoyan, a famous Chinese opera singer and music educator. Liao is also a high-rank

He has won top prizes in major singing contests both at home and abroad, especially between 1996 and 1997 when he won three first prizes in the 41st International Singing Competition of Toulouse, Domingo World Opera Competition and Queen Sonja International Music Competition. His remarkable performance won applaud from world music circles and he started his cooperation with opera great Placido Domingo since then.

He has been touring around the world to perform with opera great Placido Domingo, José Carreras and Ruth Ann Swenson successfully. His perfect singing won him a high status in the international opera circle.

Liao Changyong has acted leading roles in numerous opera classics, including The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Don Carlo, Carmen, Faust, Camille, Trovatore and A Masked Ball. And he has won medals, awards and honors awarded by China, Shanghai, USA, Belgium, etc. He has been devoted to the creation and performing of Chinese original operas and art songs in recent years. He joined the 2016 G20 Summit as an outstanding talent of China.

He is now a deputy of the National People’s Congress, a member of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee of the 12th National People’s Congress, vice chairman of Chinese Musician Association, vice chairman of the Shanghai Musician Association, a member of the leading group of Shanghai Literary Federation and vice chairman of Chengdu Literary Federation.

林宏鸣 Lin Hongming

Lin Hongming is director of the Art Management Department and guest professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is also a guest professor of the Central Academy of Drama, a judge of Wenhua Award of the Ministry of Culture and Shanghai Literat

Lin has been working in art and culture management for over 30 years. He served successively as office director of the CPC Shanghai Culture Bureau Committee, general manager and Party secretary of Shanghai Peking Opera Theater, Party secretary and executive vice president of Shanghai Opera House, and the first general manager of Shanghai Oriental Art Center.

Lin has published dozens of articles on newspapers, magazines and books. He was the editor-in-chief of Ten-year Collections with 600,000 characters. He taught courses of organizational behavior, secretary psychology, strategic management and art marketing.

His study focuses on the practice and theory of art management, the comparison and analysis of entertainment markets in China and foreign countries, artistic communication and audience psychology.

刘红 Liu Hong

Liu Hong, a Chinese-American, is doctor and post doctor in ethnomusicology, professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, doctor supervisor, deputy director of SHCM China Ritual Soundscapes Research Center, associate editor of SHCM journal Da Yin.

Research field: ethnomusicology and Chinese traditional music.

Courses: musicology thesis writing, native religious music and folk songs, analysis of Chinese traditional music forms, Chinese Traditional Music (in English), thesis writing for post graduates

刘英 Liu Ying

Liu Ying, a famous suona player, academic leader and member of the academic board of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, professor and postgraduate supervisor. Liu is now the chairman of SHCM Labor Union, principal of SHCM Affiliated Middle School, m

Liu’s course “Suona Performing Art” has been selected as Shanghai Excellent Courses. Many suona players he cultivated have been awarded in big events home and abroad and have been teaching in professional troupes and art colleges.

Honors:

Shanghai Outstanding Youth Teacher in 1995
Listed in China’s Senior Technical Talent Dictionary in 1997
Outstanding Teacher in Henry Fok Education Foundation in 1998
Gold Medal in Jungfrau Music Festival in 2003
Shanghai Baosteel High Art Award in 2003
Hong Kong Au Weng-hei Music Teacher Award in 2005
Special Award of He Lvting Music Foundation in 2009
Shanghai Culture and Art Talent in 2010
Shanghai Art Worker with Professional Excellence and Moral Integrity in 2010
Shanghai Labor Medal in 2011
National Exemplary Teacher in 2011
Shanghai Model Worker in 2015

宋波 Song Bo

Song Bo, a famous tenor singer and a member of Shanghai Musician Council, has studied successively at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music, the Central Conservatory of Music, Boston University and The Juilliard School and got a Master degree. He is cur

Song Bo, praised as an outstanding tenor singer by The Boston Globe, has successfully acted leading roles in a dozen operas, including Bohemian, the Lady of the Camellias and Rigolette, under cooperation with renowned opera houses and orchestras in New York, San Louis, Florida, as well as in Shanghai and Beijing at the iconic music halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The People’s Great Hall in Beijing and Shanghai Grand Theater. He joined several celebrations held by the national government in Hollywood, USA and People’s Great Hall in Beijing. He also published DVDs with Shanghai Audio-Visual Publishing House.

In recent years, Song Bo has been invited as jury in important vocal contests held by the Ministry of Culture at home and abroad. Several of his students also won important vocal contests at home and abroad. Song also holds the post of evaluation expert on teaching level of undergraduates by the Ministry of Education.