Valentin Lanzrein, a baritone, serving as Associate Professor at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, is an active performer, an ardent voice pedagogue, and a distinctive scholar.

His broad repertoire covers nine languages and all the classical styles ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. With more than fifteen years of experience as a vocal pedagogue, his expertise includes voice lessons, lyric diction, vocal pedagogy, solo vocal literature, and opera workshops. He is internationally sought after as a competition adjudicator and masterclass clinician, and he is an author with Oxford University Press.

Lanzrein is the two-time recipient of the prestigious Kiefer Hablitzel Prize in Music awarded by the Association of Swiss Musicians (Switzerland) and has since toured Europe, Asia, and the U.S.A. His passion for the art song has led him to appearances at the Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), the Aimez Vous Brahms Festival (Switzerland), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), the Wednesday at One series at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York.

Recent appearances include the baritone solo in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, with the NUS Symphony and Choir in Singapore, Bach’s Magnificat as soloist with the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the collaboration with the Ciompi Quartet in Barber’s Dover Beach, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and Bobby in Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny Songspiel at Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill. There he also appeared in the Milestones Festival Gala concert as a soloist in Stephen Jaffe’s Songs of Turning and as a soloist with the Carolina Choir in Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Brahms’ A German Requiem. Most recently he performed Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer with Faculty members of the Tianjin Juilliard School in the Seasonal Concert Series of the Shanghai Symphony Hall.

Lanzrein is a member of the Visiting Faculty at the Tianjin Juilliard School. He also serves on the voice faculty at the iSING! Suzhou, International Young Artist Festival. Previously, he has taught at the DePauw University School of Music (U.S.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.S.A.). He is regularly on the artist faculty of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival in Germany. As an adjudicator, he has served at events of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, the Classical Singers Vocal Competition in the U.S.A., and the Hong Kong Schools Music Competition in Hong Kong. Lanzrein is an author of The Singer’s Guide to German Diction, published by Oxford University Press, and hailed, “the most important work on lyric diction that has emerged in the last twenty years.”

Lanzrein holds degrees from the Hochschule der Künste Bern (Switzerland), an Artist Diploma from Oberlin College, bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, New York (U.S.A.), and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from State University of New York in Stony Brook (U.S.A.). He has studied and participated in international master classes with Brigitte Fassbaender, Peter Schreier, Warren Jones, Richard Miller, W. Stephen Smith, and Elisabeth Glauser.