3rd Prize
Song-Hu Liu
China, Lyric Baritone, born 1974
Studying voice with Siegfried Jerusalem Song-Hu Liu graduated from the College of Music Nuremberg-Augsburg summa cum laude just this summer. Before that he was a student at the College of Music in Odessa and at the Accademia D'Arte Lirica in Osimo, Italy. Since June 2000 Song-Hu Liu has an engagement as a soloist at the Theatre Nuremberg, where he has sung the roles of Ceprano and Murullo in Verdi's "Rigoletto" as well as the Conte, Papageno, Guglielmo and Masetto in the great operas of Mozart. In the near future he will be performing in Nuremberg in "La Traviata", "Carmen", "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" and "King Arthur".

