Associate Professor Shanghai Theatre Academy Department of Performance Shanghai People’s Republic of China
Song Song is an associate professor of vocal music and a Master’s Student Supervisor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy’s Department of Performance. She is currently a Senior Visiting Scholar at New York University and has previously been a Senior Visiting Scholar at Peking University of Art and Peking University Opera Academy. She has won an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Asia Pacific Leadership Foundation and served as a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, an executive director of the first Overseas Chinese Youth League Committee, a director of the Shanghai Young and Middle-aged Intellectuals Association, and a visiting professor of Hunan First Normal University. Additionally, she has acted as an expert judger for the Shanghai Education Commission Committee art student joint examination and the 2019-2020 "Asian Model Star" Campus Competition.
Song graduated from the Department of Vocal Music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and learned from the famous singer and vocal educator Zhou Xiaoyan as well as the renowned Professor Wen Kezhen. In 2004, Song was appointed by the government to go to the Gnessin State Musical College in Russia to study for a Master’s degree. Song studied under the famous Russian singer and vocal educator Ли Фук, Севериова. She also went to the Odin Theatre in Denmark to attend training sessions of "Odin Drama Week," "Michael Chekhov," "Meisner" performance method, "Linklater Sound Master Class," "Xiao Bin Xia Zi," and "Fitzmaurice Sound Training Master Class." In July 2019, Song was awarded the "Fitzmaurice Voice Training" qualification.
Among many venues, Song has performed operas in the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival and the Shanghai Opera House. Her credits include playing the leading actress Michaela in "Carmen,” the first woman in the opera “La Boheme," the protagonist "Mimi" in "La Traviata" to celebrate the "Year of China," the first actress in "Violetta", and the Verdi opera "Rigoletto" in Madeleine.
Over the years, Song has been invited to hold concerts around the world. These performances include playing at the 2019 New York City Carnegie Hall “Song of a Midsummer Night—— A Solo Concert by Song Song” ；the Fudan Peking University New York New Year Gala;" the "Sihai Tongchun - Meidong literary and art circles New Year Gala" for the Chinese Consulate General in the United States Tsinghua University in New York; the Wuhan University "Qing Wu Fei Yang" New Year Gala; and a solo New York Chinese New Year Concert - "Song Song in Broadway." Some of her other performances include a 2016 solo concert at the Gnessins National Conservatory of Music in Russia and a Shanghai Oriental Radio "Weekly Radio Concert," "Song Song to stay in Russia," held in June of the same year. In May 2012, in the 100-year forum of Peking University, "Opera--Song Song Opera Concert" was held. In May 2005, during President Hu Jintao's visit to Russia, Song was invited to participate in a large-scale event for the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Fascist War. The celebration was performed in a cultural performance and was cordially received by President Hu Jintao.
As an acclaimed Chinese music educator, Song has published many papers on various media platforms in China and abroad. In October 2017, she published a paper "On the Physical Training of Chinese Actors' Voices - Analysis of Chinese Traditional Art Forms and Body Training of Actors' Voices" and delivered a speech at the STA-First International Performance Education Forum. In October 2016, she published the paper “The Use of Breathing in Musical Plays.” In August 2015, she published the paper “Sounds and Songs in Action – Talking about the Role and Influence of Breathing in Stage Art.” In the Shanghai Drama, she published a paper "A Review of the Creation of Drama Theory--A Review of the Thirty Years of Drama Art." In July 2006, she published a paper "The Light of Russian Opera" in Music World. In August of the same year, The People’s Daily published her article “Looking at Opera in Russia”.
Song has earned many awards and honors. She was awarded the first solo art performance award in the "International Art and Education" International Competition in Moscow, Russia. In 2000-2001, she was selected as the "Shanghai University Excellent Student Political Counselor" by the Shanghai Education Commission, and in July 2007, the Shanghai Municipal Personnel Bureau selected her as the "Shanghai Second Outstanding Student Achievement Award."
