Awards
and Jury

Min Jiang’s career began at 17, when she was selected to perform as a featured soloist with the Heilongjiang Province Arts Troupe. She received coaching in both Chinese folk singing and Western vocal technique from many accomplished teachers, and has served as an adjudicator for the NTD International Chinese Vocal Competition since its inception in 2007. Since joining Shen Yun Performing Arts in 2006 she has given over 1,000 performances on many of the world’s great stages.

Known for her formidable and emotive voice, Haolan Geng won the gold medal at the First Music Competition of the Guangdong Arts Festival in 2007. A graduate of the Guangzhou Conservatory of Music, her 2008 graduation recital earned critical acclaim. She later starred with the Guangdong Opera Company, and gained international attention in 2009 on winning first prize at NTD Television’s International Chinese Vocal Competition. She has been a soprano with Shen Yun Performing Arts since 2009.

A former soloist with the Vietnam National Opera & Ballet, where he performed lead roles including Jean Valjean in Les Misérables. He holds a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from the Vietnam National Academy of Music. In 2022 he joined Shen Yun Performing Arts as a solo vocalist, studying under Shen Yun’s Artistic Director and mastering a long-lost bel canto technique. He combines exceptional vocal artistry with profound stage presence, and was awarded the Gold Prize at the 10th NTD International Chinese Vocal Competition in 2025.

Tian Li began studying voice at seven before attending China’s Shenyang Conservatory of Music, where she completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She has won awards at many vocal competitions and gave solo recitals in 2012, 2014 and 2015. After auditioning into Shen Yun Performing Arts in 2016 she furthered her study of voice with the company’s Artistic Director.

Gao Liang earned his master’s degree in vocal performance at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. He is the winner of multiple international singing competitions in Europe and specialises in German, French and Russian art song. Before joining Shen Yun he starred as Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème and Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, among many principal roles.