Countertenor, recorder player and theorbist Menglin Gao received his bachelor’s degree in recorder from Oberlin in 2013. He obtained a Master of Music in early music voice from the Longy School of Music in 2015, before starting his doctoral studies at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying voice with Steven Rickards and basso-continuo on the theorbo with Nigel North. Gao has collaborated on various instruments with many distinguished performers such as Elizabeth Walfisch, Ingrid Matthews, Cynthia Roberts, and Gary Wedow. Gao founded Shanghai Camerata in 2016, China’s first early music ensemble and led it to numerous successful performances in important concert halls in Shanghai since. He has also given lectures at New York University as well as Fudan University in 2017.