SHCM president visits Danish and two British music schools

Shanghai Conservatory of Music President Lin Zaiyong pose for a photo with his counterpart of Royal Danish Academy of Music Bertel Krarup in Denmark.

Shanghai Conservatory of Music President Lin Zaiyong led a delegation to visit Royal Danish Academy of Music in Denmark as well as Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in Britain in October 2015.

SHCM and Royal Danish Academy of Music hosted four-day online remote master classes on viola, piano trio, trumpet and violin.

Professor Lan Hancheng from SHCM’s orchestral instruments department and a quartet group from SHCM gave master classes and staged five concerts at the Danish academy.

Lin discussed exchange programs, band selection simulation Global Audition Training Program, online remote education and guest professors with his counterpart of the Danish academy Bertel Krarup.

Then Lin traveled to Britain with a smaller delegation. Lin discussed cooperation in joint-institute with Colin Lawson, director of London’s Royal College of Music and Kevin Porter, deputy director of RCM. Lin also viewed Austrian composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn’s manuscripts collected in the RCM’s library.

Lin also visited Royal Academy of Music in Britain and renewed exchange agreements and expanded cooperation in majors and joint performances with the British academy.

Royal Danish Academy of Music was founded in 1867 and is the biggest and oldest music school in Denmark. It has long term cooperation and exchange ties with SHCM.

Royal Academy of Music is an independent academy of University of London in Britain and was founded in 1822. It is one of the oldest public music schools in Britain.

London’s Royal College of Music was founded in 1882 and is a higher education institute with absolute authority in music art education in Britain.