ENSEMBLES 2009
Zhang Shirong
Artistic Director
Zhang is a well-known expert in child’s voice training and the current art director of Affiliated Secondary School to Chinese People’s University. With his unique choral training methods for both adult and children’s voices, he has tutored choirs in Affiliated Secondary School to Chinese People’s University from 1984 to 2002, many of which have won numerous national and Beijing municipal first prizes. He was invited to Hong Kong and Taiwan for lectures and performances on numerous occasions. He is the author of “Zhang’s Child Vocal Training”, introduced by Mr. Nie Zhongming, Chairman of the Chinese Chorus Association and a celebrated conductor, and described by Professor Wu Lingfen, head of the conducting department of the Central Music Academy, as “ a must-read in the field of vocal and conducting education”. He left the Central Symphonic Orchestra in 1998 and assumed the position of director of vocal teaching and research in the department of arts at the Central Culture Administration Personnel College. Furthermore, he is currently the choral conductor in the PLA political Department Chorus Society.
