Liu Niru 

Liu Niru received her Bachelor of voice degree from Xinghai Conservatory of music and her Master of Music from Manhattan school of music. In 2018, she became the first Chinese singer to join Maestro Placido Domingo Colburn-Stein Young Artist with the Los Angeles Opera. She was praised by an opera review magazine in Washington as "promising mezzo-soprano rising star", and one review also mentioned “the mezzo soprano Niru Liu showed tremendously promising silver tone voice.”

Once a Filene artist with the Wolf Trap Opera, she sang Diamantine in L'île de Merlin and Bertha in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, her other performances include Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Mrs Alexander in Satyagraha by Philip Glass and Annio in La clemenza di Tito with the Los Angeles Opera. In 2021, She made her debut in China under baton of Maestro Tan Dun and Director Yi Liming’s production of Tea: a mirror of soul, as Tea Sage Lu Yu’s Daughter and Shadow; in 2023, she performed as the alto soloist in Buddha Passion under the baton of Tan Dun.