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Colin Yip's operatic performances have included the leading roles in Eugene Onegin, Madame Butterfly, Carmen and Richard Strauss's Ariadne Auf Naxos as well as many concert of operatic repertoire with the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra of Canada and, 1992, toured Malaysia and Singapore with the Penang Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaysia. He also performed in a concert of operatic music with the Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra in 1990 and has appeared in recitals and on television in New York, Canada, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and throughout Southeast Asia.
Mr. Yip learned singing with Chang ju-Chiun in his native Hong Kong. He later studied in China at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music as a scholarship student under Professors Gue Su-Zan and Li Xin-Chang. He received coaching from the renowned German Lieder specialist professor Hugen. After a successful recital debut in Hong Kong City Hall with Soprano Mary Liu, Mr. Yip was accepted into the Artist Diploma Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he later became a member of the faculty. In 1989, he won first prize in the National Teachers of Singing Competition in Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Yip studied voice with Maitland Peters and Gabor Carelli while in New York City and graduated with Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music, New York in the Spring of 1995. He was a 1995 winner of the Artist International Competition and presented in New York recital debut at the Carnegie Recital Hall. He appeared as Goro in the production of Madame Butterfly by the Arizona Opera. Colin is currently admitted in the International who's who of Intellectuals 1997.