Zongwei Zhang, Tenor, is currently pursuing his second year of the Master of Music degree in Voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studies with Professor Carol Vaness. Originally from Anhui China, he has appeared with IU Opera Workshop in roles such as Werther (Werther), Fritz (L’amico Fritz), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Monostatos (The Magic Flute), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Torquemada (L’heure espagnole), and the Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites). At IU Musical Arts Center, he performed Prince Charmant in Massenet's Opera Cendrillon, Le Remendado in Bizet’s Opera Carmen, and Parpignol in Puccini’s La Bohème.
This past summer, Zongwei performed the Dancing Master and Brighella in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos with Chicago Summer Opera.
He is a Silver Prize winner of the Prokofiev International Music Competition and Semi-Finalist of the Premier Opera Foundation