Teaching for 30 years, Ms. Manxue Hu has dedicated herself to the promotion of teenagers’ music and was awarded the honorary titles of “Ten Recipients of the Excellence in Teaching Service” and “Outstanding Woman Representative” awarded by Shenzhen municipal government.
Ms. Hu had engaged in piano teaching at Jiangxi Normal University from 1990 to 1997 and had successfully held piano recitals. In 1997, she was transferred to Shenzhen Senior High School and became one of the founders of Shenzhen Senior High School Lily Girls Choir, taking charge of piano accompaniment and chorus choreography. In 2005, she studied choral conducting at the Central Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of such well-known conductors as Hongnian Yang and Lin Chen. She took over as the conductor of Shenzhen Senior High School Lily Girls Choir in 2010 and led the choir to visit North Korea and Serbia for arts communication together with government delegations. In 2016, she led the choir to perform at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse for the cultural performance of China-EU Education Ministers Conference. She had served on the jury of the 4th International Choir Assemblies EURASIA CANTAT in Russia.
In 2011 and 2016, Ms. Hu led Lily Girls Choir to successfully tour National Center for the Performing Arts, Shenzhen Concert Hall, and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has also been invited to hold numerous concerts and workshops at influential choral festivals home and abroad. In July of 2012, she was one of the representatives of China to give a speech at the World Choral Education Conference organised by the International Federation of Choral Music. Under the leadership of Hu, Lily Girls Choir won the championship of the teenage group and the second prize of an a cappella folk song group in the World Choir Games 2019. In 2014, she led the choir to participate in the 8th World Choir Games in Latvia and gained the golden prizes of the Music Contemporary category and the Female Chamber Choir category. She won the Excellent Conductor Prizes respectively of the 1st Shenzhen Choir Festival and the 4th National Elementary and Middle School Arts Fair.
