In tune with their talent
China DailyFounded in 2008, Inner Mongolia Early Youth Choir won the top prize at the China International Chorus Festival in Beijing in 2012, and achieved gold medals in the mixed chorus and folk music categories at the European Choir Games in Austria in 2013. She has lots of experience to draw on, such as founding the Inner Mongolia Youth Chorus in 1987 for young adults and being its conductor for 15 years, as well as conducting concerts featuring the choruses of the China National Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Opera House Chorus. However, when she was invited to become conductor and artistic director of Inner Mongolia Early Youth Choir in 2008, the veteran was hesitant, because she knew that it would be very difficult and go beyond anything she had done before. The choir, the first of its kind from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, aims to train singers around 10 years old to sing a cappella-with no conductor or accompaniment.