10/25/2026
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the role of the Evangelist will be sung by
Tenor, Gene Stenger. Heming Cao will replace Gene as Tenor soloist.
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Praised by Sing Tao Boston for his “gorgeous voice and boundless prospects,” Heming Cao is a Boston-based tenor, conductor, and composer with a dynamic career in vocal performance and choral leadership.
Recent performances include the tenor solo in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra and Choir in Boston Symphony Hall, performance at Carnegie Hall as the winner of BU Spotlight at Carnegie competition. As an opera singer, Heming has performed roles including Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi, 2025), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni, 2024), and die Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel, 2023), etc. He has also appeared as a soloist in lots of concert repertoire with Cantata Singers, including Bach’s St. John Passion (2026), St. Matthew Passion (2023) and Mass in B Minor (2022). Handel’s Messiah (2025), Monteverdi’s Vespers (2024). Selected as a Bach Institute Fellow in 2025, he frequently performs with Emmanuel Music and the Bach Institute.
As a conductor, Heming has led ensembles including the Student Choir of
Nankai University, Tianjin Symphony Orchestra Affiliated Youth Choir, and Tianjin Philharmonic Chamber Choir. He has prepared choirs for works such as
Alexander Nevsky Cantata, The Yellow River Cantata, and multimedia projects
including the concert The Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature and
the film 108. A dedicated educator, he founded the Jungle Children’s Voice and
Alma Female Choir in Tianjin and began his tenure as Music Director of The New
Moon Choirs in Boston from 2023, and recently performed large scale original
chorus suite: The Spring Tides of Bohai Sea.
Heming is currently a DMA candidate in voice at Boston University. He holds an
M.M. in Voice Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College and a B.S. in Applied Physics from Nankai University.
