LEI HUO

Tenor

Lei Huo's busy international career has taken him from the stages of Carnegie Hall to the National Opera Theater in Taipei, Taiwan.

Lei Huo is widely known as a gifted singer, an experienced and caring teacher, and well regarded academic. He is a gifted tenor and studied with Franco Corelli in Italy and Mignon Dunn in New York. Mr. Huo is a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China and holds graduate degrees from The Brooklyn College Conservatory and Mannes College of Music. He is a recipient of the coveted Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Award and at the invitation of The Ezio Pinza Council for America Singers of Opera and the International Institute of Vocal Arts, received two full scholarships to study abroad in Italy. He has won numerous awards, including First Prize in the New Jersey State Opera's 16th International Vocal Competition, and the Puccini Foundation Award.

Over the years, Mr. Huo has performed numerous operatic roles some of which include Alfredo in La Traviata, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Don Jose in La Tragedie de Carmen under the direction of Rhoda Levine, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana- among others. Equally at home on the opera stage or in a concert setting, Mr. Huo is a much sought after soloist having performed recently at the National Opera Theater in Taipei, the YiHai Theater and Grand Theater of Art Center in Shanghai. In April 2003, he sang at the Carnegie Hall as the tenor soloist of the concert of the New England Symphonic Ensemble.

In addition to performing and teaching, Mr. Huo is the Chairman of the Board at BellaSonata Art of Music Foundation- a Not-For-Profit music organization he founded in 2007 to bridge the diversity of cultures that exist in New York City- through music. Mr. Huo is also a Cofounder of Professional Training in the Vocal Arts, LLC. and is a frequent guest lecturer at Najing Normal University- one of Asia's most respected Universities for the Vocal studies. In addition, he is a longstanding member with The National Association Teachers of Singing and Voice Foundation.