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The Chinese baritone, Shichao Cheng, began his musical training at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing and received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2013. From 2015 to 2017, he studied for his Master of Music degree in Singing at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe with Professor Stephan Kohlenberg. He took part in many master-classes, including those given by Peter Schreier, Teresa Berganza, Brigitte Fassbaender, Julia Varady and Christoph Prégardien. From 2018 to 2020 he studied in the Lied class with Professor Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll. He was a prize-winner at the Wolfgang-Rihm-Wettbewerb 2018 and a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now scholarship holder. From 2020 to 2022, he studied opera singing in the soloist class with Julia Varady and Dorothea Röschmann at the Institut für Musiktheater.
Shichao Cheng sang as a tenor soloist in numerous concerts and opera productions in universities as well as in Germany and France. His most important roles include Tamino in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Belmonte in W.A. Mozart's Entführung aus dem Serail, Lenski in Eugene Onegin and Ramiro La Cenerentola. He loves singing Lieder recitals and has already performed the Schubert cycles Die Winterreise, Die schöne Müllerin and Die schöne Magelone by Johannes Brahms. He has appeared at Internationale Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe (September 2016-December 2020), Schloss Rastatt (September 2023), Aida Opera Live (February 2024). |
