Prof. ZHANG Liping
Associate Dean, School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

ZHANG Liping is currently serving as an Associate Dean (Faculty) at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She is a Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Voice & Opera at the Central Conservatory of Music. Member of the 12th, 13th and 14th CPPCC National Committee. Member of the China Musicians Association. She has been elected to the National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project. She was selected as one of the experts eligible for special government allowances from the State Council.

She is a leading soprano who performed at the world’s major opera houses and a famous vocal artist active at the world’s top opera houses. She has starred in operas including Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San), La Traviata (Violetta), La Bohème (Mimì), Turandot (Liu), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucia), Rigoletto (Gilda), etc. at the Royal Opera House, Metropolitan Opera House, Opéra national de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Berlin Opera, Teatro Regio di Parma, Barcelona Opera House, the NCPA and so on. Madama Butterfly, which was starred by her, was shot into a 3D version and released worldwide. CCTV's "People's Column" program, Hong Kong Pearl TV once went to Europe to report on her grand performance internationally.

In 2008, the world-famous record label EMI released ZHANG Liping’s first solo CD Arias worldwide, receiving a positive response on a broad scale. In 2009, the operas she starred in at the first opera festival of the National Centre for the Performing Arts were widely praised, including the opera Tosca, the new version of La Traviata directed by Lorraine Maazel, and the Madama Butterfly starred by the Phoenix Opera House in Venice, Italy. In the same year, she starred in the first original opera Xishi produced by the National Centre for the Performing Arts. In 2010, she played a role in the musical Love Never Dies at the invitation of Andrew Lloyd Webber, and recorded the theme song in Chinese (released by Universal Music). In 2011 and 2013, she starred in Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House. In 2014, she became the first Chinese classical singer to sign a contract with Universal Music. In the same year, she released albums under the brand name of Decca, including one titled Night and Dreams, containing Schubert’s art songs, and one named Homesickness—Chinese Art Songs. In 2017, she won the China Gold Record Award for the Best Bel Canto Singer. In 2018, she released an album of opera arias titled Verdi’s Arias under the label of DG.