Jianyi Zhang
Jianyi Zhang (张建一 in Chinese) is an American operatic tenor of Chinese birth. A graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School, he has had an active international career in concerts and operas since the mid-1980s. In 1987 he attended the summer conservatory program at the Music Academy of the West.[1] He has sung leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the Opéra-Comique, the Paris Opera, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Teatro Comunale Florence, the Vienna State Opera, and the Washington National Opera to name just a few. His concert appearances include performances with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.[2]
As an educator, he joined Zhejiang Conservatory of Music in 2018 to chair the voice department.
References
- ↑ "Alumni Roster". musicacademy.org. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ↑ "Jianyi Zhang at www.melodyofchina.org". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
- Living people
- American operatic tenors
- Chinese operatic tenors
- Juilliard School alumni
- Shanghai Conservatory of Music alumni
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Music Academy of the West alumni
- 20th-century Chinese male opera singers
- 20th-century American male opera singers
- 21st-century Chinese male opera singers
- 21st-century American male opera singers
- American opera singer stubs