25-year-old bass-baritone Shenyang was the winner of the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and a 2008 winner of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. Shenyang studied with Professor Ping Gu at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and currently is enrolled jointly at The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and at The Julliard School Opera Center. Highlights of his 2009-10 season calendar include a New York Philharmonic debut with Messiah performances under the baton of Helmuth Rilling, the title role of Mendelssohn's
Elias in his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with James Levine, a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Colline in
La bohème conducted by Marco Armiliato, and concerts in France at the Festival de la Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot. Past performances have included a Metropolitan Opera debut as Masetto in
Don Giovanni under the baton of Louis Langrée, Haydn's
Die Jahreszeiten with John Nelson at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, solo Lieder recitals at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and in New York at Lincoln Center under the auspices of The Juilliard School, a Young Singers Concert with Ivor Bolton at the Salzburg Festival, and Brahms'
Liebeslieder Walzer with James Levine and Daniel Barenboim at Carnegie Hall. As a student, Shenyang's operatic performances have included Masetto (
Don Giovanni), Don Alfonso (
Così fan tutte), Don Basilio (
Il barbiere di Siviglia), and Caronte (
L'Orfeo) in Verona, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, and Berlin. In the leading roles of Fleishman's
Rothschild's Violin and Mussorgsky's
The Marriage with James Conlon at the Juilliard Opera Center, the
New York Times heralded his performances as "impressive" and praised his "husky voice and deadpan demeanor."
Photograph taken by Marco Guerra
