As China's first international vocal festival, the iSING!Suzhou International Young Artists Festival has begun on July 7 and lasted until Aug 7. It has been endeavoring to cultivate for China and world stages young artists with international horizons and overall art qualities.

Celebrating its sixth anniversary in 2016, iSING! International Young Artists Festival continues its successful cooperation for a third consecutive summer with the Suzhou Industrial Park, and the Suzhou Culture and Arts Centre. The one-month long festival presented a series of public lectures, outreach performances, two major concerts and collaborated for the first time with the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra.

Through competitive auditions in seven cities, 42 talented vocal artists from 20 countries have been selected to participate in this full-scholarship program which offers intensive training in interpretation of standard Western repertoire and Chinese modern opera, Mandarin diction and language.