Silvana Chu –educational and professional biography

Silvana Chu, mezzo soprano, is originally from Hong Kong.

Silvana Chu studied at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
She received her Bachelor’s degree in Music at the University of the
Pacific and Master’s degree in music at the Manhattan School of Music.
She is active in both Operatic and concert stage in New York City,
performing The Boy in Indian Queen, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro,
Pollinesso in Ariodante,Cenerentola in La Cenerentola, and Irene in Atalanta.  In concert
appearances, she has performed for Caramoor Music Festival. Ms. Chu  has also performed
as mezzo soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s
Requiem, Beethoven Mass in C, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in her Carnegie Hall debut.

Chu is also involved with contemporary Music. She has premiered several American operas,
such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Richard Peaslee, Shangri-La by Susie Ibarra,
Beautiful Warrior by Chinese composer Jin Xiang, Japanese opera Nasu No Yoichi by
Kazuko Hara, and Easter Cantata by Chinese composer Huang An Lun as Mezzo Soloist.
Ms. Chu has made her Hong Kong debut in Romeo et Juliette with Opera Hong Kong
and Hong Kong Philharmonic. She has also made her Lincoln Center debut as mezzo
soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass in Avery Fisher Hall.