Ms. YANG Guang, a distinguished Mezzo-soprano, currently serves as Professor at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She is the first Chinese singer to win the title of "BBC Cardiff Singer of the World" in 1997 and the first prize at Plácido Domingo's Operalia in 2001.

Ms. YANG Guang's illustrious career spans nearly three decades, during which she has graced the stages of numerous prestigious opera houses, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Welsh National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Hong Kong Royal Opera House, Berlitz Festival, and the National Center for the Performing Arts (China), among others.

Ms. YANG Guang has notably portrayed significant mezzo-soprano roles, such as Fenena in the 2013 film opera Nabucco, produced by the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China), featuring the legendary tenor Plácido Domingo. Other principal roles include Adalgisa in Norma, Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Eboli in Don Carlo, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Ortrud in Lohengrin. She also performed some Contemporary opera, such as Mother Chen in An American Soldier, composed by Huang Ruo in 2014. In 2022, she performed Aunt Xue in Dream of the Red Chamber, an English-language opera composed by Sheng Zongliang, at the San Francisco Opera.

Beyond her operatic appearances, Ms. YANG Guang has performed a wide range of major symphonic vocal works in collaboration with distinguished orchestras and conductors both domestically and internationally. Like Verdi's Requiem, the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and Kindertotenlieder, as well as Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust and the song cycle Les Nuits d'été. In recent years, drawing on her extensive experience on the international stage, she has integrated Chinese and Western approaches to music education and has been invited to give lectures and masterclasses at numerous conservatories in China and abroad.