Chenye Yuan won the gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994 and first prize at the Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Finland, and was a national winner at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York.

He is a leading baritone at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing. In 2013, he shared the title role of Nabucco with Plácido Domingo in Gilbert Deflo’s production conducted by Eugene Cohn. In 2014, he played the title role in Eugene Onegin in Alexei Stepanyuk’s production under Valery Gergiev. In 2015, he played Amonasro in Francesco Micheli’s production of Aida conducted by Zubin Mehta. In 2017 he performed Chou Enlai at Houston Grand Opera’s Nixon in China, directed by James Robinson with Robert Spano.

He also performs as a concert artist in China and the USA, singing both Chinese and western repertoire. Chenye Yuan is a vocal professor at Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.