Soprano Song Yuanming obtained her Graduate Artist Diploma and Double Master’s Degrees in "Opera and Light Opera" and "Art Songs and Cantata" at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, under the tutelage of Professor Franz Lukasovsky.

Song has won several awards including the first prize at the 48th Concours International de Chant de La Ville de Toulouse and the first prize and the award of "Best Singer" at the 44th Antonín Dvořák International Vocal Competition in Czech Republic. She has performed at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn, Grazer Opera House, Karlovy Vary Opera House, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Buenos Aires Teatro, China National Centre for the Performing Arts and Salzburger Festspiele, and has worked with Wiener Philharmoniker and the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as renowned conductors including Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Song’s lovely voice will grace the China Now Music Festival Dec 18 performance of Beethoven’s Egmont by the China NCPA Orchestra.