{"id":5816,"date":"2018-08-06T21:28:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=5816"},"modified":"2018-08-17T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:13:36","slug":"2018-finalist-award-banlingyu-ban","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5816","title":{"rendered":"2018 Finalist Award : Banlingyu Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Soprano<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Recipient of the Elena Geilikman<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Banlingyu-Ban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5827\" title=\"Banlingyu Ban\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Banlingyu-Ban-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Banlingyu-Ban-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Banlingyu-Ban.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Banlingyu (Ban Ban) is a candidate of Doctor of Musical Arts at Arizona State University.\u00a0 Graduated with Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes School of Music in 2016.\u00a0 Ban Ban was born in China and obtained her B.M. and M.M. Degree in Shanghai Conservatory of Music.\u00a0 Ms. Ban has been chosen to study to cover Tosca with Arizona Opera 2017-2018 season.\u00a0 In 2017, she sang the title role Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly with Heartbeat Opera. NY Times wrote, \u201cThe soprano Banlingyu Ban conveys the inner resilience of this tragic heroine through the bright tones and strong delivery of the vocal lines.\u201d With The Mannes Opera, she performed Giannetta in L\u2019elisir D\u2019amore in 2015, and Dolcina in Suor Angelica in 2014.\u00a0 Commended by the Opera News \u201ctall, graceful Ban projected her music as enjoyable audibly,\u201d and \u201cBan gave a detailed, affecting dramatic performance, her voice showed a nice pearly quality.\u201d In 2015, Ms. Ban also sang Monica in The Medium and Genovieffa in Suor Angelica with the Chicago Summer Opera.\u00a0 During 2013, in Shanghai, she sang Nella and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi with Burletta Opera Festival. Ms. Ban is one of the winners of 2018 Concerto Competition with ASU School of Music.\u00a0 She also won the Platinum Award in Forte International Music Competition 2017, gala concert at Carnegie Hall. The Forth Place in New York Lyric Opera Competition. She also received Tuscia International Opera Festival Competition&#8217;s 3rd Place and Best Puccini Performance Award 2012 in Italy, as well as the Excellence Award from Asia International Vocal Festival in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LAAC0133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6052\" title=\"Banlingyu Ban, Soprano\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LAAC0133-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LAAC0133-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/LAAC0133-804x1024.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a>Photo by Gwen Juarez<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/th-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5914\" title=\"Plum Blosson\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/th-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"2018 Finalist Award : Brandon Morales\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=5818\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">2018 Finalist Award : Brandon Morales<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soprano Recipient of the Elena Geilikman Banlingyu (Ban Ban) is a candidate of Doctor of Musical Arts at Arizona State University.\u00a0 Graduated with Professional Studies Diploma at Mannes School of Music in 2016.\u00a0 Ban Ban was born in China and obtained her B.M. and M.M. Degree in Shanghai Conservatory of Music.\u00a0 Ms. Ban has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5775,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5816","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5832,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5816\/revisions\/5832"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}