Juilliard sings Tianjin campus tune
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New York’s Juilliard School has said it plans to open its first overseas campus for music education in the northern municipality of Tianjin by 2018.
The Tianjin Juilliard School will be located at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music in the Binhai New Area, which will be a 45-minute high-speed train ride from the capital Beijing, according to Joseph Polisi, president of the acclaimed school.
Founded in 1905, Juilliard is a world leader in performing arts education and has been enrolling students from China since the 1920s. It currently has 60-plus Chinese students, and boasts more than 300 Chinese alumni.
China’s first lady Peng Liyuan visited Juilliard’s Lincoln Center campus in September, while on a state visit to the United States with President Xi Jinping. While there she attended a performance class and the inauguration of the school’s branch in Tianjin.
“It’s unique that a person of her stature is involved in the arts. It was a great honor to have the first lady here,” Polisi said.
Juilliard is “defining new directions in global performing arts education for learners and enthusiasts through the Tianjin Juilliard School,” he claimed in an interview on Tuesday.
“China has a great atmosphere of Western classical music with millions of children studying piano and violin, and we find it very engaging,” he said, explaining the school’s decision to choose China for its first overseas campus.
Xu Changjun, president of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, thinks the new school will become a cultural hub, attracting students from all over.
The Tianjin school will include pre-college, postgraduate, instrumental training and adult education programs, and it plans to recruit 240 graduate students, Polisi said.
“My teachers brought me the beauty of music and humanities education, and we visit hospitals and schools to teach and perform on a weekly basis,” said Wang Jian, a Juilliard graduate and violin professor at the School of Music at Soochow University in China.
Juilliard’s “world-class faculty will rotate to Tianjin on a regular basis,” presenting master courses and workshops to students, while its graduates, as well as artists from around the world, will be invited to teach at the new school, Polisi said.
Meanwhile, Juilliard Imagination, an audience-engagement space, will be created on the campus, offering a digital display area where people can “virtually” conduct an orchestra. “We hope that people can feel the great joy that comes from western music through courses and interactive exhibits,” Polisi said.
His first visit to China was in 1987, when the Juilliard orchestra toured Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
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