Setting a musical course

After years of preparation, the Tianjin campus of the Juilliard School of performing arts plays host to the inaugural class of its pre-college program, Chen Nan reports.

When a quintet performed Overture on Zhejiang Folk-Tunes in the lobby of a hotel located in Tianjin Binhai New Area on Sept 16, the picturesque small towns of East China's Zhejiang province were revealed to the audience through music.

The quintet was composed of teachers of the Tianjin Juilliard School, the first overseas campus of the New York-based performing arts conservatory, and included violist Sheila Browne, double bass player Zhang Daxun, oboist Scott Bell and violinist He Wei.