Graduating from the postgraduate courses of China Conservatory of Music, YAN Weiwen, the tenor singer of the Central Military Commission Political Work Department Song and Dance Ensemble, currently serves as the visiting professor and national vocal music masters’ instructor in China Conservatory of Music and director of Chinese Musician’s Association. He has won The 2^nd National Young and Middle-aged Smashing Artist awarded by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, Ministry of Labor and Personnel and China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the honorary title of smashing “Famous Mater” awarded by the original General Political Department. As the national Level 1 actor and current member of the 12^th CPPCC National Committee, he enjoys the special allowances of the State Council.

The songs such as Little Poplar, A Word in Heart, One, Two, Three, Four Song, When Being Homesick, Toast, Friends, Mother, When Your Hair Brushes My Gun and Battle Song of Strengthening Army, which were first sung by him, have won universal praise and are widely sung. In order to develop and expand the folk song culture, he has devoted himself to collecting, sorting, and transcribing Yan Weiwan’s Chinese Folk Song and Love Song Series in recent over 10 years. He also published and distributed the albums of The Western Regions Love Songs, Loess Love Songs, Red Earth Love Songs, Solider Love Songs, Black Earth Love Songs, Red Love Songs, Hunan And Hubei Love Songs, Henan and Anhui Love Songs and Hebei and Shandong Love Songs.

He has insisted on going deep into the troops and going deep into the grass roots all the time to perform for the army officials and soldiers and the people heartily and his footprints have extended all over China’s plateau border checkpoints, frontlines of fire smoke and forefront of island reefs. He sang in the first line in the fight against the flood in 1998, fight against SARS, and Wenchuan and Yushu earthquakes. He is praised as a “singer for soldiers” by the army officers and soldiers.

In 2011, he successfully held the large-scale concert Gun · Rose, and successfully starred the film stories Rishengchang in the Wind and Rain and Legend of FENG Menglong.
 

Young soprano Gong Shuang has performed in the NCPA Opera Festival, and sang I’ll See the Day All Those Who Are Suffering Are Liberated in Chinese opera lecture of Red Guards on Honghu Lake.

She has performed in CCTV Spring Concert, Countdown Party, Straight through Spring Festival Gala, CETV Spring Festival Gala, CFLAC “All Flowers Are in Bloom” Spring Festival Gala and NCPA Opera Festival. She has toured around the country for performances of Road to Revival, Flowers of Spring and Fruits of Autumn, Classics is Popular and How Many Folk Songs Do You Know, etc. Her performing style is unhurried, bright and smart, gaining unanimous praise from people inside and outside the circle.

 

Wang Lida is a young singer of Song and Dance Ensemble of the PLA General Political Department, National-level Grade-A Actress, Member of the All China Youth Federation, Member of the Chinese Musicians' Association and Poverty Alleviation Image Ambassador to China Poverty Alleviation Association, who holds Master of Art from Chinese Conservatory of Music.

Wang Lida boasts wide range and sweet voice. She devoted to professional learning of Flower Drum Opera over years, which forged solid basic skills. With excellent traditional opera skills and folk singing skills, she successfully plays the role of Jinzi in the opera Savage Land. In the musical drama Qingcheng, she successfully plays the female role of 'Yuxian', who is unanimously praised by the industry. She often participates in national large-scale performances. She successfully held 'Kissing the Motherland—Wang Lida Solo Concert' at Poly Theater in June 2009. 

Wang Lida takes a lead in China's new generation of folk song artists. She often wins awards in national-level important vocal events in recent years, such as Gold Award of the 14^th National Young Singer TV Grand Prix; Gold Award of the 7^th National Vocal Music Golden Bell Award; First Prize of the 8^th and the 9^th PLA Performing Arts Collective Show; the Most Popular Female Singer of Chinese Folk Song List; and Best Female Singer of 'Gold Horn Award' for Nationwide Audience's Favorite Singers (Folk Singing). In addition to singing, she is always keen on public welfare undertakings, and actively takes part in various public welfare charity performances for donating money and goods to disaster areas and poor areas. She serves as Poverty Alleviation Image Ambassador to China Poverty Alleviation Association, who was conferred with '2010 Green China Annual Highlighted Figure—Public Welfare Figure Award'.  

Representative works include: Kissing the Motherland, Blaze Longer and Broader Path Forward, Sleepless Love, Reunion Wine, My Mother Yimeng Mountain, Five Hundred Li, Love Is a Myth, Let Heart Take a Holiday, Love for Motherland, Female Soldier's Call, Tangle, Liuyang River, Fisherwoman on the Yellow River Mother, A Harmonious Big Family and Happiness. 

 

 

He has performed in NCPA's productions of La Traviata, IL barbiere di Siviglia and Un Ballo in Maschera. He is a renowned baritone, vice-president of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the vice-president of Chinese Musicians Association, a deputy to the 12^th National People's Congress, a member of the standing committee of All-China Youth Federation, a member of National Literature Federation.

Mr. Liao has held more than twenty solo concerts all around the world. He successfully held his Solo Concert in the Golden Hall of Vienna with the accompaniment of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on November 11, 2008. Liao is among the few Asian singers active on the opera stage of the world. Besides the Best Baritone in Asia, he has played in more than ten operas as important roles with several world famous symphony orchestra and artists such as Domingo, Carreras, Ruth Ann Swanson, etc.  

He is the first artist contracted with Shanghai Grand Theatre, and is artist of Michigan Theatre and National Theatre in Washington DC. He is also known as the most beloved student of Domingo, one of three best tenors in the world and a famous opera master. He has won the first prizes in three international famous vocal competitions within one year and touched the world music community, including the most difficult Placido Domingo Opera Competition in which no Asian ever entered the finals before. Captious Washington Post and New York Times were not niggardly of praises, "this talented singer will become a treasure in the music world" and "He is the most outstanding baritone I have even seen."

 

Wu Na is a young soprano of the PLA's General Political Department Opera Troupe, National Level-A Performer, Member of Chinese Musicians Association and Member of All-China Youth Federation. She holds a Master’s Degree. She wins the third-class merit for five times, who is conferred with honorary title of “Spring Action Messenger” by Beijing. The main representative works include the songs I Sing for You, Dreams Left on Broken Bridge, Love for China and Putting on New Military Uniforms. She often publishes solo albums. She participates in important events such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala and Tiananmen Square National Day Gala. She holds a number of successful solo concerts which are highly praised. Wu Na wins numerous awards in national-class major vocal competitions. She serves as a jury member in the finals of the Fifteenth National CCTV Young Singer TV Grand Prix. 

 

 

In 1982, Lu Jihong graduated from Vocal Department of Xi'an Conservatory of Music, who got Bachelor's Degree under the tutelage of Professor Tao Liling. Afterwards, he taught in Music Department of Lanzhou Normal College, who mainly imparted Vocal Music, History of Chinese and Western Music and Appreciation for Chinese and Western Music. In 1985, he was transferred into Song and Dance Ensemble of Gansu Province. In 2001, he graduated from Postgraduate Class of China Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Professor Jin Tielin. Since 1989, he has worked in Navy Song and Dance Ensemble to serve as head of Navy Song and Dance Ensemble Chorus. He is incumbent deputy head of operations, who takes charge of professional training.

In recent years, Lu Jihong not only often wins many awards, but also records theme songs and interlude songs for Generals of the Yangs, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Imperial Concubine Yang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li San as Hero of Swallow, Blood-sweating Treasure Horse, War of Genes and many other TV series. Goodbye, Dabie Mountains, Our Common People, Mother's Folk Song, National Peace and People's Prosperity and other songs sung by him have been widely reputed at home and abroad. His singing is full of passion with touching emotion. And he can grasp various singing styles of songs, with rich flavors. He presents enthusiastic and unconstrained stage presence. He successfully plays the leading male role in the opera Red Coral and large musical play Equator Rain. In addition, he often participates in the large-scale variety shows organized by CCTV and many local TV stations. He repeatedly visits Germany, Russia, the Philippines, Thailand, the United States and other countries on behalf of the PRC and the PLA, who are deeply favored and welcomed by domestic and foreign audiences.

As one of the most outstanding contemporary Chinese music tenors and national first-class actor, Wang serves as member of the Standing Committee of the National Youth Federation. He is graduated as a Vocal Master from the People's Liberation Army Art Institute.

He won the Gold Medal for professional folklore group and the Audience's Favorite Singer Award in the 9^th BBK National Young Singer TV Grand Prix; Best Male Folk Singer Award for the China Golden Record Award; Folk Songs Album Award and Folk Song Class Actor Award at the 4^th China Golden Record Award; Special Jury Award for the 10^th Global Chinese Music Award, the Best Mainland Folk Male Artist Award at the 6^th CCTV-MTV Music Festival.

In recent years, Wang has sung Western Singing, Children Traveling Thousands of Miles, Reputation, Homeland Feeling, The Great South, All Dedicated to the CPC, Kashgar Girl and many more outstanding works. He starred in the northern Shaanxi opera Women from Mizhi and Men from Suide, Qinghai huaer drama White Dove and folk opera Xiao Erhei's Marriage. His solo concert was successfully held in Beijing, Ningbo, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Guiyang, Jinan, the Philippines, Singapore, Vienna and a number of cities at home and abroad and has visited the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Philippines, Italy, Austria, Russia, France, Spain, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Korea, Indonesia and Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions.

Yin is a famous contemporary dramatic soprano. She served as a soloist in China Broadcasting Performing - Arts Troupe in 1976; in 1980, she was admitted to the Opera Department of the Central Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of the famous tenor and famous vocal educator Professor Shen Xiang; after graduation in 1983, she served as soloist in PLA General Political Department Song and Dance Troupe and the Central "Heart to Heart" Art Troupe. She is a national first-class actress at the China Broadcasting Performing-Art Troupe. Her song I Love You, Snow of Saibei is a masterpiece and songs whose debut were made by her, including CPC - My Dear Mother, Song of the Yangtze River, Mom Taught Me a Song, China - a Big Stage and other songs have flown into every household in China, making her an excellent singer favored by the masses.

 

Ma Yue was born in 1978. From November 2001 to July 2002, Ma Yue served as an anchor of China 110 column of Ministry of Public Security; from July 2002 to July 2004, news anchor of Travel Channel; from April 2004 to September 2005, CCTV, host of Chinese Folk Music on weekends; from December 2006 to December 2007, news anchor of China Education Television; since October 2008 to present, host of CCTV 3.  

Ma Yue was the first prize winner in the 2007 Army Stage Art Host competition. He was the MC at the celebration party of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the army and the 2008 Spring Festival variety show for the people and army. He is currently a host of CCTV and MC of large-scale party. He was the MC of the 2011 Korea-China Music Festival; MC of the 2012 Arrival of Happiness, Blessing and Good Luck. He is currently hosting Let’s Sing Every Day.