A suona teacher at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM), the first person in China to earn a doctoral degree in suona performance and a contracted principal soloist with the Guangdong National Orchestra, Liu Wenwen is one of the most outstanding and youngest suona performers of today, and is actively forging an influential career in China and abroad. One of SHCM’s top young players to emerge in recent years, she began studying suona with Liu Ying, vice president of SHCM.
Liu has collaborated with numerous conductors including Xia Feiyun, Tan Dun, Ye Cong, En Shao, Zhang Yi, Muhai Tang, Liang Zhang, Liu Sha, Wang Yongji, Zhang Lie and Lin Daye, among others. She has also cultivated long-lasting collaborations with world-renowned orchestras including the China National Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Chinese Orchestra, Nice Symphony Orchestra, Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.