The summer international piano class in Shanghai Conservatory of Music was unveiled on August 5.
The event was launched with two SHCM students, Zhou Chengyao and Xu Qianyi, performing at the opening ceremony. Eight piano masters from seven countries attended.
Zhou Keng, director of SHCM International Piano Art Center, presided over the ceremony and introduced the summer session class.
The class was proposed to pilot the comprehensive educational reform in top universities and aimed to build an international public music event as well as an open education platform.
It offers one-on-one lessons to help bring individual students onto the international stage.
Professor Robert Blocker, head of Yale School of Music, spoke at the ceremony. SHCM is a world-renowned institution and Yale School of Music shares with it a common ground for cooperation and a prospect for development, he said.
He also wished the members of the class to become real pianists in the future.
The eight masters, including Gianluca Luisi, Robert Blocker and Balázs Szokolay, also performed during the period.
A one-week “Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Piano Art Festival” will be held at the same time to stage eight concerts presented by the masters. Other events in communities and artistic workshops will also be organized during the festival.
