Liu Zheng, a national first-grade actor and member of the Chinese Musicians Association, became the first violinist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at the age of 29. He graduated from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, learning violin performance and the art of conducting an orchestra from Professor Wolfgang Claus.

Liu has been active in the art circles. He has been employed by many world famous orchestras, such as the guest first violinist of the Graz Symphony Orchestra in Vienna, music envoy of the Vienna University of Music, and the guest first violinist of the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra. He acted as conductor and ad hoc consultant during the French Langeais Art Festival, and conductor and chief inspector of the Asian regions during the European Youths Art Festival. He has also been employed as the guest consultant of the Hong Kong Youth Synphonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Police Officers Chorus, Hong Kong Sound of Growth Orchestra and Shaanxi Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor of the Continuing Education College affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music, and guest professor of China Conservatory. He acted as one of the members of the review committee of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Violin Competition and the Hong Kong Bauhinia Cup Strings Competition.

Liu has cooperated several times with many world-renowned musicians, including Jean·Yves Thibaudet, Vadim Repin, Christoph Eschenbach, Rozhdestvenskiy, Vadim Repin and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. He has also cooperated with many well-known symphony orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna State Opera, the Graz Symphony Orchestra in Vienna, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, the Australia TSO Symphony Orchestra, and the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in quite a number of famous musical performance venues, such as the Golden Hall of Vienna, the Vienna Concert Hall, the Vienna Opera House, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the Paris Sorbonne Concert Hall, the Opera Munich, the Nuremberg Opera House, the Music Hall of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Carnegie Music Hall in New York and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the United States.

Given Liu’s outstanding artistic achievements and the brilliant success in popularizing music knowledge among children and youths, he was chosen, by CCTV (China Central Television), as one of the newsmakers of “Striving to Achieve the ‘Chinese Dream (to Build a Moderately Prosperous Society and Realize National Rejuvenation)’” in August 2013. Soon after that, the documentary film, with the same name, was broadcast on CCTV’s news channel, and the TV station invited Liu as one of the promotion commissioners of the film.

On May 26, 2014, the National Center for the Performing Arts offered a special show — the world-famous opera Carmen, in four acts, performed by juveniles, accompanied by music played by youngsters. Liu planned and directed the show, and he acted as conductor during the performance. The performance, the first of its kind in China and a rare case in the world, aroused great concern.