The Early Years program is designed as a music enrichment class for preschool children aged 3 to 6 years to experience with their parent or caregiver.

The curriculum is collaboratively designed by music education experts from both China and the United States and incorporates various aspects of renowned musical pedagogies including Orff, Dalcroze, and Kodaly, among others. The content includes singing, playing, dancing, active listening, inner hearing, and music improvisation. Through diverse musical activities, this program aims to inspire children's interest in music, cultivate their self-confidence, physical coordination, memory, and concentration, and enhance their deeper understanding and appreciation of music.
 

Ages 3-4: Experiencing and Discovering Music (3-4 yrs)

• Learn more about in-tune singing including singing in different intervals and Curwen Hand Signs for Solfege. 
• Develop music literacy to identify comparatives in basic concepts with smaller differences.
• Identify and produce beat, rhythm and accent through movements. 
• Train memory and musicianship skills through practicing inner hearing and using visual presentation to memorize songs and lyrics.
• Develop global competency through interacting with friends.
• Discover body percussion and other percussion instruments.

Ages 5-6: Developing and Demonstrating Music (4-5 yrs)

• Learn more complex songs in different forms, from various cultures, and in several languages.
• Perform and write to demonstrate music literacy of comparatives in basic concept.
• Engage in creating, performing and improvising music.
• Train memory and musicianship skills through practicing inner hearing to memorize longer sections of music, to dictate music and compose on their own.
• Develop global competency through understanding the relationship with self and with others.
• Make and play instruments using their bodies and other materials and coordinate with more precise movements. 

The Early Years activities are held every Sunday morning between September and May, according to the academic calendar. The proposed teaching schedule for the 2024 academic year is from 11:00 AM to 11:50 PM.

Please note that every Early Years student must be accompanied by at least one parent or adult caregiver in the classroom.

Tuition: RMB 4,500 per semester (15 weeks)

To join the MDP Early Years, students must be between 3 and 6 years old. For more information about the curriculum, or to apply for the Tianjin Juilliard School Music Development Program, please scan the QR code to add the Public Education WeCom.