Pioneering music program builds Sino-US cultural bridge

NEW YORK - Wang Yixin believes she is now on a fast track to realizing her dream of being a master of the guzheng, or Chinese zither, thanks to a pioneering Chinese music program offered by Bard College, a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 144 kilometers north of New York City.

Wang is one of just four first-year students in the double degree program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and its US-China Music Institute, in partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Groundbreaking course