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AO LI
Bass-baritone Ao Li is Professor of Voice at Shandong University of Arts. He has starred in both Western and Chinese operas, including "The Marriage of Figaro", "Così fan tutte", "Don Giovanni", "The Magic Flute", "Norma", "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", "L'elisir d'amore", "Don Pasquale", "Lucrezia Borgia", "The Barber of Seville", "Carmen", "La serva padrona", “Eugene Onegin", "La Bohème", "Tosca", "La Traviata", "Daughter of the Party", "Han Xin", "Song of Exile", "Red Azalea", and "The Enchanted Garden." He is a signed singer with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Utah Opera, Kentucky Opera, Santa Barbara Opera, North Carolina Opera, Calgary Opera in Canada, La Monnaie in Belgium, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, the Macao Cultural Centre, and the Taipei and Kaohsiung Operas. He has collaborated with conductors such as Marco Armiliato, Nicola Luisotti, Plácido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Martin Katz, Massimo Zanetti, Fabio Luisi, Giuseppe Finzi, Alain Altinoglu, Riccardo Frizza, Robert Tweten, Marin Alsop, Daniela Candillari, Judith Yan, Mark Morash, Darell Ang, Zheng Xiaoying, Li Xincao, Lv Jia, Zhang Guoyong, Tan Lihua, Lv Shaojia, Jian Wenbin, Peng Jiapeng, Lin Daye, Chen Lin, and Zhang Yan. Ao Li’s awards include: the First Prize in the Male Category at the Operalia World Opera Competition in 2013; the Grand Champion of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the United States in 2014; the Audience Favorite Singer Award at the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition in 2015; the Runner-up at the Shizuoka International Opera Competition in Japan in 2017; the Third Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Belgium in 2018; the First Prize in the "Bel Canto Group" at the 12th China Music Golden Bell Award Finals in 2019; and the "Outstanding Talent" title at the 15th National Vocal Music Exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2023. After Ao Li won the Grand Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the New York Times commented, "Ao Li is the singer we are looking for, a rare talent on today's opera stage." The Belgian newspaper De Standaard remarked, "Ao Li has conquered the discerning European audience with his perfect voice and performance." The Asahi Shimbun in Japan praised him highly, stating, "Ao Li is the best bass we have heard in the last decade." |
YEO-JIN SEOL
Pianist and Accompanist, Yeo-Jin Seol is native of Seoul, Korea. She received her doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Arizon State University. She holds additional performance degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Han- Yang University in Seoul, Korea. Upon completion of her studies, she was a teaching assistant in Collaborative Piano at Arizona State University, also received Honors Outstanding Achievement in Collaborative piano at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Dr. Seol has worked with the numerous music festivals as a staff accompanist, including Aspen Music Festival and Schools, Viandn Festival, Songfest. She currently serves as a staff accompanist and performer at lyric Opera Theater at Arizona State University, Arizona School for the Arts and Fountain Hill Chamber Players and Bach-Millennium Music.
Pianist and Accompanist, Yeo-Jin Seol is native of Seoul, Korea. She received her doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Arizon State University. She holds additional performance degrees from San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Han- Yang University in Seoul, Korea. Upon completion of her studies, she was a teaching assistant in Collaborative Piano at Arizona State University, also received Honors Outstanding Achievement in Collaborative piano at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Dr. Seol has worked with the numerous music festivals as a staff accompanist, including Aspen Music Festival and Schools, Viandn Festival, Songfest. She currently serves as a staff accompanist and performer at lyric Opera Theater at Arizona State University, Arizona School for the Arts and Fountain Hill Chamber Players and Bach-Millennium Music.
our Conductors
Maestro Mattias Kuntzsch
Maestro Matthias Kuntzsch was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and attended the Conservatory of Music in Hannover, where he studied piano with the famous Mozart pianist Karl Engel.
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Alexander Katsman
Alexander Katsman is the Artistic and Music Director for Livermore Valley Opera. Alumni of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program, he received his M.M. from St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and his B.M. cum laude from Mussorgsky College of Music in St.Petersburg, Russia.
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