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- Hello everyone and welcome
to the Tianjin Juilliard school.
My name is Alexander Brose
and I'm the executive director and CEO
of the Juilliard School New York's
first and only branch campus.
Here at Tianjin Juilliard
we offer two distinct selective programs.
The first is a graduate degree.
We are the first performing arts institution in China
to confer a US accredited Master of Music degree
from the Juilliard School in New York.
This Master of Music degree offers one of three majors,
orchestral studies, chamber music and collaborative piano.
We also have a Saturday only pre-college program
exactly similar to the pre college program in New York city
and today we are going to show you around
this extraordinarily beautiful new campus.
Our new landmark campus is located in Tianjin's
Binhai New Area
in the Eastern part of Tianjin
and close to the Port of Tianjin.
A three-minute walk from our campus
will take you to the high speed Binhai railway station
which brings you into central Tianjin
in just over 20 minutes
and to the capital of Beijing in just under an hour.
This state-of-the-art new campus
is designed by Diller Scofidio and Renfro,
the world renowned architecture firm
that was responsible the 2009 renovation
of Juilliard's iconic new campus in Lincoln center,
among many other cultural projects internationaly.
Our Tianjin Juilliard graduate students
arrived here in the fall of 2020
and our pre-college students began in the fall of 2019.
We have a truly diverse and international student body
comprised of 120 students
from 21 different Chinese provinces
and 11 different countries.
And teaching them
is a resident faculty of 25 artists teachers
from eight different countries.
They have come from all over the world
to join us here on this incredible adventure.
They also comprise the Tianjin Juilliard ensemble,
a mixed instrument ensemble
who tours as our flagship ensemble
of the Tianjin Juilliard school throughout China,
East Asia and the world.
(speaks in foreign language)
Here we are on a typical Saturday
at the Tianjin Juilliard school
where the building is filled
with pre-college students and their parents.
Our precollege is a conservatory style music program
on Saturdays only
for advanced students between the ages of eight to 18
and these students and their families
truly come from all over China
to take part in this program each week.
Here from this beautiful and expensive public lobby,
you can access any four of the major pavilions
of this building
all of which are interconnected by a series
of five two story bridges.
Within the pavilions
you'll find our performance spaces, a concert hall,
recital hall and black box theater.
In addition, there are large rehearsal halls
for large symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles,
a percussion suite,
double Reed rooms, administrative offices, a music library
and the like.
The bridges of the building
has a total of 12 classrooms,
23 private teaching studios
and 84 practice rooms,
all of which with Steinway pianos
and all of which feature glass windows
to allow for natural sunlight to come through.
Here, one can experience a sense of openness
and connection to the community and music.
We're now inside our stunning new concert hall.
Our concert hall seats 690 audience members
and is the main venue for our large orchestral
and ensemble performances,
special events and major recitals.
Led by renowned conductors,
our flagship student ensemble,
the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra
presents up to eight concerts each season
and on this side is our recital hall.
With 299 seats,
the recital hall provides a more intimate environment
for student and faculty recitals,
chamber music concerts and masterclasses.
At Tianjin Juilliard,
students share the love of music through performance
and communication and collaboration,
and just like the Juilliard School in New York,
the Tianjin Juilliard School also has a black box theater.
This black box theater seats 225 audience goers
and is really the home for our students
to have multidisciplinary performances
and to present nontraditional programming.
Now let's head downstairs and see Juilliard Imagination,
a digital and innovative environment
designed by Sony
to provide a window into Juilliard's programs in New York
and spark the creative imagination.
Here we are on the fourth floor
of our orchestra rehearsal hall, percussion studios
and really the heart of our orchestral program
here at the Tianjin Juilliard school.
This beautiful space
protrudes out from the side of the building
and right across the Hai Ho river
and the breathtaking city line of Binhai.
This room is acoustically engineered with movable panels
along the top half of the room
and the fixed acoustic panels
along the bottom half for varying levels
for sound absorption and diffusion.
Orchestras like the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra
and our Tianjin Juilliard Ensemble
rehearse here pretty much every day
and the orchestra rehearsal hall
opens up to a rooftop garden
that looks out over the Binhai New Area
and just the lovely scenery surrounding the Hai Ho river.
Thank you so much for joining us
on this tour of the Tianjin Juilliard School.
We invite all of you to come see all of the great things
happening here in Tianjin
and we hope to see you soon.
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