On the morning of March 14, in the interest of fully demonstrating the advantages of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts in national vocal music education and further enhancing the social influence and professional competencies of national vocal music as well as proactively building the dominant brand of national vocal music of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, the opening ceremony of the "3rd YU Junjian National Vocal Music Senior Seminar" was held grandly in Phoenix Mountain Campus of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts.
YU Junjian National Vocal Music Senior Seminar has trained 5 outstanding students who won the "Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music"
Dean encouraged the students to "make persistent efforts to achieve greater success" at the scene
"I sincerely hope that students can be adept in learning, dare to accept new knowledge, and effectively improve the known things while understanding the unknown things," said Yu Junjian, a famous singer and the Dean of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, when he delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the Senior Seminar held at 10: 00 a.m., placing high hopes on all the students. He proposed that the previous two sessions of the Yu Junjian National Vocal Music Senior Seminar (hereinafter referred to as the "Senior Seminar") trained 5 students who won the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, expecting that this session of students could make persistent efforts to create more outstanding achievements. Meanwhile, YU Junjian entrusted the students to practice three requirements, "To pursue the artistic spirit and comprehend the realm of the artistic spirit to continuously improve personal artistic accomplishment; to improve the humanistic quality and enhance personal humane accomplishment, and stick to the position of Chinese culture and show Chinese cultural aesthetics; to cultivate the spirit of benevolence. Since art is the emotional carrier of human beings and one of the ways for human beings to know themselves, every student should be full of humanistic feelings and adhere to the benevolence-oriented principle when treating themselves and others."
"We warmly welcome students from all corners of the country to the beautiful Phoenix Mountain Campus to jointly discuss and learn the art of national vocal music. The Senior Seminar has gathered a group of excellent teachers, achieving fruitful results. After the publication of the enrollment brochure, this session of the Senior Seminar attracted a total of 75 students from all over the country. I firmly believe that the success of this session of the Senior Seminar of national vocal music is capable of further enhancing cultural consciousness and strengthening cultural confidence, thus making our due contributions to creating a new atmosphere of Chinese literature and art and a new glory of Chinese culture." Meanwhile, ZHOU Xiaoji, Party Secretary of the School of Fine Arts and Design of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, encouraged the students to acquire genuine knowledge through painstaking study in her speech, "I sincerely wish the students a happy study and life, and the Senior Seminar a complete success as well as the national vocal music a better future."
Numerous famous teachers personally provide guidance and teaching for students
Young teachers in colleges and universities account for 40% of the total number of students
As an artistic treasure of China, national vocal music has constantly represented the artistic features of Chinese music and displayed China's resplendent culture. Within this context, the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts is continuously committed to further fostering and enhancing this kind of art. Compared with the previous two sessions of Senior Seminars, the mentor team of this session of Senior Seminar gathered a group of famous teachers as in the past. Specifically, led by YU Junjian, a famous singer and the Dean of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, the teaching team of this session of Senior Seminar mainly included WAN Shanhong, opera performing artist, HUANG Huali, a famous contemporary soprano singer in China, DAI Bin, Director of Chinese Vocal Music Teaching and Research Section of Vocal Opera Department of China Conservatory of Music and Doctoral Tutor, LIU Hegang, the Distinguished Dean of the School of Music and Dance of College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, WANG Lida, Professor of Vocal Music and Master Tutor of Central Conservatory of Music, SHI Yijie, famous tenor singer, CHEN Yongfeng, famous tenor singer, TAN Xuesheng, Party Secretary and Dean of Vocal Opera College of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and other famous artists and art educators in China. Meanwhile, JIANG Lina, the Distinguished Academic Dean of the School of Music and Dance of College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, and LV Hongwei, the Distinguished Vice President of the School of Music and Dance of College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts, will be the class advisers of the Senior Seminar respectively.
"Compared with the previous two sessions of Senior Seminars, the quantity and quality of students enrolled this time showed a trend of rapid development," JIANG Lina said in an interview with the reporter. The Senior Seminar enrolled a total of 65 students and more than 10 auditors from Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Jiangsu, Qinghai, and other regions. Among them, young teachers in colleges and universities accounted for 40% while graduate students accounted for 40%. In addition, the students of this session of the Senior Seminar also included singers, teachers, and students from a series of organizations including China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater, the former Art Troupe of the Air Force Political Department, Beijing Armed Police Corps, China Railway Art Ensemble, universities, and art troupes nationwide, as well as enthusiasts of Chinese national vocal music working in cultural and artistic research institutions. "I hope everyone can make continuous growth in the subsequent learning process. The pursuit of art and self-growth is like a long road of practice. Therefore, everyone should keep a quiet, down-to-earth, pure, and simple attitude. Each of us has our dreams, and we will encounter all kinds of confusion and utter bafflement in the process of realizing our dreams. For this reason, I sincerely hope that our Senior Seminar can lead the students out of their confusion and solve their bafflement. Also, I wish you a happy study, "LV Hongwei said.
The students are full of expectations and believe that they will be able to "learn something"
The cultivation mode of "small batch" and "high level" is beneficial for students to create more brilliance
"As a professional national vocal singer, what I need is continuous self-growth. At exactly this moment, we possess this precious opportunity to study in the Senior Seminar, which endows us with a platform to think, study and seek self-improvement. Consequently, we must cherish and seize this opportunity to exchange experiences and improve ourselves." ZHUANG Yunlong, a student representative from Hefei, Anhui Province, said with great expectation, "We can not only hear compelling explanations from experts and professors in the Senior Seminar but also learn and communicate with classmates. Hence, I believe we will have a quite fulfilling and rewarding time here, learning something valuable."
"This session of the Senior Seminar course still adopts the teaching model that integrates theory development, thinking training, famous teacher demonstration, artistic practice, and tracking instruction. On the whole, the course can be divided into open vocal music classes and one-to-one vocal music tutoring classes. Specifically, the first stage is the comprehensive training related to vocal singing and performance technology for more than 10 days, which covers no less than 8 open classes of tutors and two one-to-one vocal lessons for each student, while the second stage is the centralized teaching of YU Junjian in Beijing Vocal Music Class, to authentically realize the talent cultivation following students' aptitude and the practical improvement of students' professional competence based on highlighting features, thereby achieving the small-batch and high-level cultivation of students." In an interview with the reporter, YU Junjian said that the Senior Seminar students included the winners of the 13th Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music and those who have participated in the study for three consecutive years.
It is understood that the first two sessions of the Yu Junjian National Vocal Music Senior Seminar were held in the Phoenix Mountain Campus of the College of Chinese & ASEAN Arts in June 2019 and March 2021 respectively. A group of national famous artists and art educators, including YU Junjian, DENG Yuhua, ZOU Wenqin, MENG Ling, ZHANG Ye, LV Jihong, WAN Shanhong, DONG Wenhua, LI Danyang, LIU Hegang, WANG Lida, WANG Qingshuang, HUANG Huali, GU Xiaodan, HU Yuqing, DENG Yao, WANG Zhixin, etc., have formed a professional teaching team to provide students with all-round teaching and guidance.
"Under the careful guidance of the instructors, the student's professional competence has been significantly improved, and they have fully demonstrated their style in the competition and achieved excellent results." YU Junjian told reporters that the former students of the Senior Seminar have made great achievements in two consecutive finals of the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music. For example, in the (National) Vocal Music Finals of the 12th Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, three students entered the finals, and 1 student from the Senior Seminar won the "Gold Award". Likewise, in the (National) Vocal Music Finals of 13th Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music, the 12 contestants who entered the national finals included 5 students from Yu Junjian National Vocal Music Senior Seminar and 1 student from Yu Junjian Public Welfare Classroom, with 4 students winning the "Gold Award". "I sincerely hope that this year's students can follow their example and make further achievements in the (National) Vocal Music Competition of Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music (national)."
