Niuniu Miao Liu has been a senior lecturer in musical coaching at the Department of Opera and Music Theater at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg since 2020 and regularly serves as a coach at the Salzburg Festival. From 2015 to 2020, he was engaged as a solo coach with conducting duties at the German National Theater in Weimar, where he also served as musical director for concerts of contemporary music, music theater productions on the Studio Stage, and interdisciplinary projects.
In addition, he taught score analysis for several semesters as an adjunct lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. Born in Beijing and raised in the Black Forest, he studied opera coaching, conducting, and piano at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar. There, and at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, he simultaneously earned a master’s degree in musicology, philosophy, and literary studies. While still a student, from 2012 to 2014, he held his first position as a solo répétiteur at the Theater Gera-Altenburg. After graduating, he spent a year in China in 2014–15, where he worked as a lecturer in accompaniment at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music and in German studies at Sichuan University in Chengdu.