{"id":6276,"date":"2019-06-06T22:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somainfo.org\/?page_id=6276"},"modified":"2019-06-06T23:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T23:21:34","slug":"2019-finalist-award-winner-hao-hu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=6276","title":{"rendered":"2019 Finalist Award Winner : Hao Hu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Tenor<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Justin Bennett Finalist Award<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/headshot1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6309\" title=\"Hao Hu\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/headshot1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/headshot1.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/headshot1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/headshot1-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Hao Hu is a tenor who has a full Italianate voice and studied at Mannes School of Music in New York with Professor Arthur Levy. In 2018, Mr. Hu performed as Dick Johnson in Metropolitan Opera Guild Puccini Concert.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Hu made his debut\u00a0 as Pong in Turandot with Verismo Opera directed by Evelyn La Quaif and the legendary soprano, Lucine Amara.\u00a0 In 2017\/2018, Mr. Hu made his debut at Mannes School of Music as Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Maestro Joseph Colaneri.\u00a0 He also performed opera scenes in\u00a0 Mannes semester concerts as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Macduff in Macbeth,\u00a0 F. B Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Rodolfo in\u00a0 La boh\u00e8me,\u00a0 Tamino in Die\u00a0 Zauberfl\u00f6te, the title\u00a0 role in Faust and Nemorino in L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore.\u00a0 In the summer of 2017, Mr. Hu\u00a0 was a young artist in the Martina Arroyo Prelude to\u00a0 Performance Foundation. He performed Gerardo\u00a0 in Gianni\u00a0 Schicchi,\u00a0 conducted by Maestro Willie Waters.\u00a0 After he finished is internship\u00a0 in the Martina Arroyo Prelude to\u00a0 Performance Foundation, Mr. Hu performed Des Grieux and F.B. Pinkerton with Joshua Greene in New York Summer Opera Scenes.\u00a0 Mr. Hu started his vocal technique as a baritone.\u00a0 After 8 years,\u00a0 Mr. Hu transitioned his voice to tenor under the guidance of Professor Arthur Levy. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6421\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LAAC_159.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6421\" class=\" wp-image-6421 \" title=\"Hao\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LAAC_159-804x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LAAC_159-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LAAC_159-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hao Hu : Photo by Gwen Juarez<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/th-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6422\" title=\"th-7\" src=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/th-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"2019 Finalist Award Winner : Bronwyn White\" href=\"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/?page_id=6272\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2019 Finalist Award Winner : Bronwyn White<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenor The Justin Bennett Finalist Award Hao Hu is a tenor who has a full Italianate voice and studied at Mannes School of Music in New York with Professor Arthur Levy. In 2018, Mr. Hu performed as Dick Johnson in Metropolitan Opera Guild Puccini Concert.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Hu made his debut\u00a0 as Pong in Turandot with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6255,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6276","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6276","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=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6276\/revisions\/6426"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soma-info.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}