Ms. YANG Guang, mezzo Soprano, is currently serving as Adjunct Professor at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She was the only winner of the 1997 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. She also won first place at Plácido Domingo's Operalia 2001. After Ms. Yang finished her studies at the Juilliard School and a three-year stay at the Lyric Opera of Chicago's Ryan Opera Center, she started her operatic career worldwide.

Ms. YANG sang her Amneris in Aida under Maestro Zubin Mehta with the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing in 2014. She performed the same role in Austria at the Bregenz Festival in 2009 and at the Summer Art Festival in 2010. Ms. YANG's recent work includes Ferena in Nabucco, Adalgisa in Norma, Azucena in Il Trovatore, and Mother Chen in the world premiere of An American Soldier composed by Huang Ruo and commissioned by the Washington Opera. Ms. YANG has worked with the Florida Grand Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Omaha, San Francisco Opera, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she debuted her Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. Ms. Yang's success in Cavalleria Rusticana brought her back to the Lyric Opera of Chicago with the same role. She has sung Princess Eboli in Don Carlos with the Welsh National Opera, a role she reprised for the Canadian Opera Company in 2007/2008 after making her debut with this company as the Second Norn and Waltraute in Götterdämmerung. In 2011, Ms. YANG joined the Metropolitan Opera for the Japan tour.

In concert, YANG debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as Alto in Tippett's A Child of Our Time under the baton of Sir. Andrew Davis. She performed with the Milwaukee Symphony in the Shakespeare Series, conducted by Nicholas McGegan. Ms. YANG is a frequent performer in Verdi's Requiem with organizations including the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera under Carlo Rizzi and Orchestre de Paris under Christopher Eisenbach. Ms. YANG has also finished her concert tour in China & US recently.