Ren Shengzhi

Ren Shengzhi is a tenor opera singer and currently serves as a faculty member at the School of Music, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is a contracted artist with the UK’s National Opera Studio and the first Chinese opera singer signed by Scottish Opera. He holds the UK’s “Global Talent” visa.

Ren graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. In 2017, he received a full scholarship and the Porter Fund Award to pursue advanced studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he trained under Professor Richard Berkeley-Steele, Dr Ingrid Surgenor, and David Gowland. He earned an Advanced Diploma in Opera Performance in 2019, officially recognised as a doctoral-level qualification by China’s Ministry of Education.

From 2019 to 2021, Ren completed the Young Artist Programme at the National Opera Studio and was named a Scottish Opera Emerging Artist for the 2020/21 season. He has performed with Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. His notable roles include Oedipus Rex (2024), La Traviata (2024), Das Rheingold, Il tabarro (2022), Daphne, and L’elisir d’amore. His performances have been featured at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh International Festival, and covered by The Guardian, Opera Magazine, and other media.

In China, he has appeared at the Shanghai Spring Festival, Harbin Ice Festival, and with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. He represented China at the 50^th anniversary of UK-China diplomatic relations (2022) and the Korea-China cultural exchange gala (2017). Ren’s awards include Third Prize and Audience Award at the Neapolitan Masters Competition (2019), First Prizes in Hong Kong (2010), Macao (2006), and the Golden Bell Awards in Hunan and Jiangxi (2009, 2015), among others.