Voice 2022 – ART SONG DIVISION
Tenor
2022: Born in Daqing, China, tenor Zhuohan Sun is currently studying art song interpretation at the Karlsruhe University of Music in Germany. His work as a singer has included a passion for this style, and he has won accolades for his interpretation. He won the Special Prize and Audience Award at the 2021 International Robert Schumann VIDEO Competition, and Gold Prize at the first International Singing Competition for Chinese Art Songs in 2018.
In 2017 Zhuohan Sun was invited by the National Ballet of China to sing Mahler’s song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde at Beijing’s Heaven Bridge Theater.
Sun is a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and was a 2018 prize winner at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg.
Training
Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Master’s Degree
Present: Karlsruhe University of Music
Principal Teachers
- Mitsuko Shirai
- Hartmut Höll
Prizes and Awards
- 2021: Special Prize and Audience Award, International Robert Schumann VIDEO Competition
- 2018: Gold Prize Award, 1st International Singing Competition for Chinese Art Songs
Travel difficulties prevented Zhuohan Sun from participating in Voice 2022.
Pianist: Yuriko Watanabe
Zhuohan Sun is generously sponsored by the Lise et Richard Fortin Foundation.
