Wen Kezheng

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Wen Kezheng ( Chinese  溫 可 錚  /  温 可 铮 ; * 1929 in Beijing ; † 2007 ) was a Chinese bass singer . He was the director of the Shanghai Conservatory School of Singing . He graduated from the Nanjing Conservatory in 1950 with a degree in music. He was the chairman of the Fourth Music Association of China. In 1957 he won the silver medal at the sixth World Youth Music Festival.

biography

Wen Kezheng was the child of a Beijing intellectual family ; his father encouraged his musical talent. At the age of ten he won a children's music award with an old Italian song. He passed the aptitude test at the Nanjing National Conservatory with a grade of one in the 1940s.

From 1946 to 1956 he studied Russian singing with Professor V. Shushlin. After graduation, he first worked in the music corps of Nanjing Jing Ling University, where he met his wife Qiu-Wang. He was also director of the Institute singing at the conservatory in Shanghai, the fourth Committee Chair of the Music Association of China and the Political Consular emcee of Shanghai. In 1951, Professor Wen successfully organized the first singing solo concert in Beijing, Tianjing and Nanjing with the pianist Jialu Li.

Wen attended the first national music festival in 1956 as a representative of Shanghai. In the same year he won the gold medal in the first national singing competition of the Chinese Ministry of Culture. In 1957 he won the silver medal in a classical singing competition in Moscow, after which a singing album was published by him in the Soviet Union.

Soon after, he was giving solo concerts and singing lessons all over the world with his wife. In 1986 he was the first Chinese singer to appear in the USA. At another solo concert in the palace of the Japanese prince, he sang “ Beethoven's Ninth” symphony, accompanied by Osaka's symphony orchestra.

From the political consular conference in Hong Kong he received an invitation to a solo singing concert in 1989. In the following year he performed several times with singing in Macau.