Student Life and Services
Tuition and Expenses
Payment of Tuition
Newly admitted students wishing to enroll are required to pay an advance of RMB 3,500 towards annual tuition no later than April 15 to confirm their attendance. The advance will be credited towards tuition due for the Fall semester.
A bill for the Fall 2025 semester tuition will be emailed to new and returning students by July 4, 2025 and must be paid by August 4, 2025. A bill for the Spring 2026 semester tuition will be available by December 1, 2025 and must be paid by December 26, 2025. Payments must be made in RMB via wire transfer.
Financial holds will be placed on the records for students whose Tianjin Juilliard accounts show a past-due balance after the billing due date.
2025 - 2026 Academic Year
| August 4, 2025 | Fall semester tuition due |
| November 15, 2025 | Deadline to pay all fees in order to be able to pre-register for classes for the next spring semester |
| December 26, 2025 | Spring semester tuition due |
| April 15, 2026 | Deadline to pay all fees in order to be able to pre-register for classes for the next fall semester |
Refunds
A student whose tuition payments and scholarship exceed the amount due will receive a refund. Refunds are available during the eighth week of the fall semester and are generally available the eighth week of the spring semester. Refunds will not be issued until all funding has been received by Tianjin Juilliard and credited to the student’s account.
Leave of Absence and Withdrawals
If a student wishes to withdraw from the School, written notice must be given to the Dean. The official date of withdrawal will be the day the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs is notified or the last day of attendance in any educationally related activity (including participation in performances), whichever is later.
For withdrawals that occur after the semester has begun reimbursement may be required.
If written notice of withdrawal is received by the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs before the first day of classes of either semester, the student has no responsibility for the semester’s tuition or housing charges. Students who withdraw during either semester are liable for a portion up to 100 percent of that semester’s tuition and housing charges, depending on the date of withdrawal, as follows:
| Within the first week: | 10% |
| Within the second week: | 25% |
| Within the third week: | 50% |
| Within the fourth week: | 75% |
| After the fourth week: | 100% |
Please note that residence hall refunds for students who withdraw from the School will follow the guidelines set forth in the residence hall contract.
Should a student be dismissed, the same policy of tuition responsibility will apply.
Payment and Contract for Residence Hall
For students moving into the Residence Hall on August 12-14, 2024, half of the annual residence hall fee are due by August 12, 2024. The reminder of the residence hall fees is due December 26, 2024. These fees will appear on the tuition bill and must be paid via wire transfer.
Note: For students who are approved to arrive late or leave earlier than the end of semester, a pro-rated housing bill will be generated accordingly.
Registrar
Degree Requirements
Collaborative Piano: Instrumental Focus* – Minimum Total Credits: 60
*Two-Year program
Qualifying Requirements
Ear Training: Ix, IIx
Keyboard Studies: Ix, IIx
Sight Reading for Pianists: I, II
Graduate-Level English Classes (for scores below TOEFL 89 / IELTS 6.5)
Qualifying requirement classes may be required based on results of placement examinations. Qualifying requirement classes do not carry credit toward the MM degree but do appear on the permanent record with a grade.
First Year
Major Studies
| PCKMUTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Collaborative Piano) | 8 credits |
| PNCTJ 601 Solo Piano for Collaborative Pianist | 4 credits |
| MSMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Repertoire Performance | 0 credit |
| GRMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Studio Accompanying | 0 credit |
| CPNMUTJ 610 – Annual Jury | 0 credit |
Departmental Practicum
| GRMUSTJ 611P / 612P – Collaborative Skills: Instrumental | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 621P – Collaborative Skills: Vocal | 2 credits |
| CMENSTJ 531 / 532 – Chamber Music | 4 credits |
Specialized Studies
| GRMUSTJ 685 Vocal Literature I | 2 credits |
Graduate Courses
| GRMUSTJ 60#T – Music Theory courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 60#H – Music History courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 601P – Collaboration and Interpretation* | 4 credits |
*The requirements may be spread out over two years.
Total credits first year: 36 credits
Second Year
Major Studies
| PCKMUTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Collaborative Piano) | 8 credits |
| MSMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Repertoire Performance | 0 credit |
| GRMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Studio Accompanying | 0 credit |
| CPNMUTJ 611 – Graduation Jury | 0 credit |
| CPNMUTJ 612 – Graduation Recital | 2 credits |
Specialized Studies
| GRMUSTJ 687 / 688 Sonata Seminar | 4 credits |
| CMENSTJ 531 / 532 Chamber Music | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 690 Conducting for Collaborative Pianists | 2 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 686 – Vocal Literature II | 2 credits |
Graduate Courses
| Graduate Course | 2 credits |
Total credits second year: 24 credits
Collaborative Piano: Vocal Focus* - Minimum Total Credits: 70
*Two-Year program by special audition only
Qualifying Requirements
Ear Training: Ix, IIx
Keyboard Studies: Ix, IIx
Sight Reading for Pianists: I, II
Graduate-Level English Classes (for scores below TOEFL 89 / IELTS 6.5)
Qualifying requirement classes may be required based on results of placement examinations. Qualifying requirement classes do not carry credit toward the MM degree but do appear on the permanent record with a grade.
First Year
Major Studies
| PCKMUTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Collaborative Piano) | 8 credits |
| PNCTJ 601 Solo Piano for Collaborative Pianist | 4 credits |
| MSMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Repertoire Performance | 0 credit |
| GRMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Studio Accompanying | 0 credit |
| CPNMUTJ 610 – Annual Jury | 0 credit |
Departmental Practicum
| GRMUSTJ 611P – Collaborative Skills: Instrumental | 2 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 621P / 622P – Collaborative Skills: Vocal | 4 credits |
Specialized Studies
| VAMUSTJ 591 / 592 – Lyric Diction | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 685 / 686 Vocal Literature | 4 credits |
Graduate Courses
| GRMUSTJ 60#T – Music Theory courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 60#H – Music History courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 601P – Collaboration and Interpretation* | 4 credits |
*The requirements may be spread out over two years.
Total credits first year: 38 credits
Second Year
Major Studies
| PCKMUTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Collaborative Piano) | 8 credits |
| PNCTJ 601 Solo Piano for Collaborative Pianist | 4 credits |
| MSMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Repertoire Performance | 0 credit |
| GRMUSTJ 623R / 624R – Studio Accompanying | 0 credit |
| CPNMUTJ 611 – Graduation Jury | 0 credit |
| CPNMUTJ 612 – Graduation Recital | 2 credits |
Specialized Studies
| VAMUSTJ 593 / 594 – Lyric Diction | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 621P Collaborative Skills: Vocal | 2 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 690 Conducting for Collaborative Pianists | 2 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 685 / 686 – Vocal Literature | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 677P/678P Opera Performance Technique | 4 credits |
Graduate Courses
| Graduate Elective | 2 credits |
Total credits second year: 32 credits
Instrumental and Chamber Music – Minimum Total Credits: 54
Qualifying Requirements
Ear Training: Ix, IIx
String Players: Piano for non-majors: I, II, III, IV
Pianists: Keyboard Studies: Ix, IIx
Pianists: Sight Reading for Pianists: I, II
Graduate-Level English Classes (for scores below TOEFL 89 / IELTS 6.5)
Qualifying requirement classes may be required based on results of placement examinations. Qualifying requirement classes do not carry credit toward the MM degree but do appear on the permanent record with a grade.
First Year
Major Studies
| CMENSTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Chamber Music) | 8 credits |
| CMENSTJ 603 / 604 – Chamber Music Forum | 0 credit |
| ---TJ 601 – Studio Lessons | 8 credits |
| CMPMUTJ 610 – Annual Jury | 0 credit |
Departmental Practicums
| PFENSTJ 511L / 512L – Orchestra | 2 credits |
Graduate Courses
| GRMUSTJ 600T – Music Theory courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 600H – Music History courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 600R – Collaboration and Interpretation* | 4 credits |
*The requirements may be spread out over two years.
Specialized Studies*
| GRMUSTJ 611P / 612P – Collaborative Skills: Instrumental | 2-4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 621P / 622P – Collaborative Skills: Vocal | 2-4 credits |
Total credits first year: 30 credits
*Pianists in the chamber music major take 4 credits of Specialized Studies instead of Orchestra. Alternate performance electives may be substituted by advisement.
Second Year
Major Studies
| CMENSTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Chamber Music) | 8 credits |
| CMENSTJ 603 / 604 – Chamber Music Forum | 0 credit |
| ---TJ 601 – Studio Lessons | 8 credits |
| CMPMUTJ 611 – Graduation Jury | 0 credit |
| CMPMUTJ 612 – Graduation Recital | 2 credits |
Departmental Practicums
| FENSTJ 511L / 512L – Orchestra | 2 credits |
Graduate Courses
| GRMUSTJ – Graduate Courses | 4 credits |
Specialized Studies*
| GRMUSTJ 611P / 612P – Collaborative Skills: Instrumental | 2-4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 621P / 622P – Collaborative Skills: Vocal | 2-4 credits |
Total credits second year: 24 credits
*Pianists in the chamber music major take 4 credits of Specialized Studies instead of Orchestra. Alternate performance electives may be substituted by advisement.
Instrumental and Orchestral Studies – Minimum Total Credits: 58
Qualifying Requirements
Ear Training: Ix, IIx
Piano for non-majors: I, II, III, IV
Graduate-Level English Classes (for scores below TOEFL 89 / IELTS 6.5)
Qualifying requirement classes may be required based on results of placement examinations. Qualifying requirement classes do not carry credit toward the MM degree but do appear on the permanent record with a grade.
First Year
Major Studies
| PFENSTJ 601 / 602 – Major Studies (Orchestra Studies) | 8 credits |
| OSENSTJ 601 / 602 – Orchestral Forum | 0 credit |
| OSPMUTJ 610 – Annual Jury | 0 credit |
| ---TJ 601 – Studio Lessons | 8 credits |
Departmental Practicums
| PFENSTJ ---R – Orchestral / Ensemble Repertoire | 2 credits |
Graduate Courses
| GRMUSTJ 600T – Music Theory courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 600H – Music History courses as advised | 4 credits |
| GRMUSTJ 600R – Collaboration and Interpretation* | 4 credits |
*The requirements may be spread out over two years.
Total credits first year: 30 credits
Second Year
Major Studies
| PFENSTJ 601 / 602L – Major Studies (Orchestra Studies) | 8 credits |
| ---TJ 601 – Studio Lessons | 8 credits |
| OSPMUTJ 611 – Graduation Jury | 0 credit |
| OSPMUTJ 612 – Graduation Recital | 2 credits |
Departmental Practicums
| PFENSTJ ---R – Orchestral / Ensemble Repertoire | 2 credits |
| CMENSTJ 531 / 532 – Chamber Music | 4 credits |
Graduate Courses
| GRMUSTJ – Graduate Courses | 4 credits |
Total credits second year: 28 credits
Public Education
Tianjin Juilliard's Public Education division is the bridge connecting The Juilliard School's world-class music education to the Chinese public through a variety of programs. Private instrumental lessons, online music courses, chorus, master classes, and summer and winter camps are offered to music learners of all ages.
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Courses
FALL 2021 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Major Study
CMENS-TJ 601 -- Major Study (Chamber Music)
4 credits
Fall
Chamber Faculty
Chamber music majors participate in intensively coached chamber music groups some of which extend for a full semester and usually coach two hours per week. Students may also perform in some groups that include faculty or guest artists that rehearse intensively over a short period of time. All coached chamber music groups culminate in a chamber music performance.
CMENS-TJ 603 -- Chamber Music Forum
0 credits
Fall
Chamber Music Faculty
Thursday 4:00-5:45
A co-requisite course to major study for chamber music majors in which all chamber music majors will meet weekly as a group for team coaching led by chamber music faculty.
PCKMU-TJ 600-01 -- Major Study (Collaborative Piano): CHU
1-6 credits
Fall
Katherine Chu
All students receive 9 one-hour private lessons each semester.
PCKMU-TJ 600-02 --Major Study (Collaborative Piano): KATYUKOVA
1-6 credits
Fall
Faculty
All students receive 6 one-hour private lessons each semester.
PFENS-TJ L511 -- Major Study (Orchestra) Rotation of visiting conductors (4 credits)
Assignments by the orchestral administration are made on a rotating basis and are primarily determined by audition. Other considerations taken into account are professionalism, dependability, collegiality, experience level, performance history, and the nature of the event. Required of all full-time Orchestral Performance students in each semester of residence.
Studio Lessons
All students receive 15 hours of studio lessons each semester.
FLW- TJ 601--Studio Lessons: FLUTE-ITTZÉS
4 credits
Fall
Gergely Ittzés
OBW- TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: OBOE-BELL
1-4 credits
Fall
Scott Bell
CLW- TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: CLARINET-ZHOU
1-4 credits
Fall
Xiangyu Zhou
BNW-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: BASSOON-KOYAMA
1-4 credits
Fall
Akio Koyama
TPB-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: TRUMPET-TYUTEYKIN
1-4 credits
Fall
Sergei Tyueteykin
FHB-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: FRENCH HORN-HAN
1-4 credits
Fall
Chang Chou Han
TBB-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: TENOR TROMBONE-ALLEN
1-4 credits
Fall
Lee Allen
TBB-TJ 601-01-- Studio Lessons: BASS TROMBONE-ALLEN
1-4 credits
Fall
Lee Allen
VNS-TJ 601-01 -- Studio Lessons: VIOLIN-HE
1-4 credits
Fall
Wei He
VNS-TJ 601-02 -- Studio Lessons: VIOLIN-LI
1-4 credits
Fall
Weigang Li
VNS-TJ 601-03 -- Studio Lessons: VIOLIN-YU
1-4 credits
Fall
Angelo Xiang Yu
VAS-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: VIOLA-BROWNE
1-4 credits
Fall
Sheila Browne
VAS-TJ 601-02 -- Studio Lessons: VIOLA-LI
1-4 credits
Fall
Honggang Li
VCS-TJ 601-01 -- Studio Lessons: VIOLONCELLO-KIM
1-4 credits
Fall
Yeonjin Kim
VCS-TJ 601-02 -- Studio Lessons: VIOLONCELLO-TZAVARAS
1-4 credits
Fall
Nicholas Tzavaras
DBS-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: DOUBLE BASS-ZHANG
1-4 credits
Fall
DaXun Zhang
PEP-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: PERCUSSION-HAHN
1-4 credits
Fall
June Hahn
PNK-TJ 601-- Studio Lessons: PIANO-WANG
1-4 credits
Fall
Xiaohan Wang
Performance Courses
CMENS-TJ 531 -- Chamber Music
2 credits
Fall
Chamber Faculty
Students are placed into groups and assigned coaches. Groups coach eight (8) hours per semester leading to a performance of a complete work. Requests to work with a particular coach are subject to approval by the office. This course may be repeated.
Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire classes
Required each semester of all Orchestral Studies majors, this class meets both in sections by instrument, and in combination with other instrumental groups and covers orchestral and large chamber music ensemble repertoire, as well as a variety of topics specific to the orchestral profession.
PFENS-TJ R501-- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: bassoon
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R503 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: clarinet
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R505 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: double bass
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Thursday 9:00-10:45.
PFENS-TJ R507 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: flute
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R509 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: French horn
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R511 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: oboe
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R513 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: percussion
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45.
PFENS-TJ 515 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: trombone
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R517 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: trumpet
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
PFENS-TJ R519 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: viola
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Thursday 9:00-10:45.
PFENS-TJ R521 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: violin
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Thursday 9:00-10:45.
PFENS-TJ R523 -- Orchestral/Ensemble Repertoire: violoncello
1 credit
Fall
Studio Faculty
Thursday 9:00-10:45.
Graduate Studies Courses
GRADUATE THEORY: Note: Students are required to take a minimum of two graduate theory courses. Theory courses are assigned according to the results of a placement exam.
GRMUS-TJ T601 -- Music Theory and Analysis I
2 credits
Fall
Faculty
Section A Tuesday 9:00-9:55 and Friday 9:00-9:50
Section B Tuesday 10:00-10:55 and Friday 10:00-10:50
This is the first semester of a year-long theory review course designed for entering graduate students at The Tianjin Juilliard School. The integrated format combines aural, visual, and written activities including analysis, keyboard, writing (figured bass, melody harmonization, and short compositions that incorporate various harmonic idioms), singing, and transposition. The course encourages a reorientation that reveals how theory, composition, listening, and analysis can (and must!) inform performance, and provides a foundation for more advanced theory courses. After setting the stage for a more performative approach to theory, this course will focus on diatonic harmony, including counterpoint, melodic fluency, tonal categories and the phrase model, contrapuntal expansions, non-dominant seventh chords, musical periods and sentences, and submediant and mediant harmonies.
GRMUS-TJ T602 -- Music Theory and Analysis II
2 credits
Fall
Faculty
Tuesday 9:00-9:55 and Friday 9:00-9:50
Prerequisite: GRMUS-TJ T601 or by placement. This is the second semester of a year-long theory review course designed for entering graduate students at The Tianjin Juilliard School. Building upon skills developed either in the first semester of the course or demonstrated through performance on the theory placement test, students will continue to stretch and apply their theoretical perspectives in ever-more performative ways. Like the first semester, an integrated format will combine aural, visual, and written activities including analysis, keyboard, writing (figured bass, melody harmonization, and short compositions that incorporate various harmonic idioms), singing, and transposition. The ultimate emphasis is on the creative and performative applications of music theory. After reviewing necessary fundamentals and reacquainting students with this perhaps novel approach to theory, this course will venture into chromatic harmony and larger forms, including applied chords and tonicization, modulation and binary form, modal mixture and chromatic modulation, writing and using the Neapolitan chord and augmented sixth chords, and ternary and sonata form.
GRMUS-TJ T650 -- Sonata Form After Beethoven
2 credits
Fall
Niccolo Athens
Wednesday 11:00-12:45
Pre-requisite: GRMUS-TJ T602 or by placement.
This course will trace the usage of sonata form structures in symphonic and chamber music beginning after Beethoven through the first half of the 20th century, long after it is usually assumed to have been effectively defunct. Students will explore the ways in which a continuing engagement with this traditional form remained an important source of musical meaning for a wide variety of composers. Elements of “Sonata Theory” will be employed skeptically to determine their applicability to repertoire increasingly distant from the Austro-German music they were devised to describe. Students will assess the continued viability of the sonata form after the “common practice period,” as well as grapple with larger issues such as the role of shared conventions as a conduit for communication between the composer and listener and the influence of analytical models on the work of composers.
GENERAL GRADUATE STUDIES
GRMUS-TJ R600 -- Collaboration and Interpretation
2 credits
Fall
Julia Glenn
Section A Wednesday 9:00-10:45
Section B Monday 9:00-10:45
This course focuses on making the best use of information resources to contribute to forging forge a personal point of view about a musical compositions. Once salient information is accessed, students work individually and in group interpretation building exercises to synthesize that information with a variety of other sources including their own and their instructors’ interpretive ideas and impressions from recordings and live performance ultimately arriving at an interpretation combining information with intuition.
GRMUS-TJ H602 Music History II
2 credits
Fall
Alvin Zhu
Section A Monday 9:00-10:45
Section B Monday 11:00-12:45
Section C Wednesday 9:00-10:45
The second semester of the music history sequence covers topics including: Viennese music from the Romantic era through the Second Viennese School, Russian and French music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and Music of the 1970’s to the present day.
GRMUS-TJ P600 Community Engagement Practicum
1 credit
Fall
Steven Liu
Section A Monday 10:00-11:00
Section B Monday 11:00-12:00
Section C Monday 12:00-1:00
What does it mean to build an identity as an ‘Artist Citizen’ and what does that look like in actual practice? This course will explore the connection between artistry and citizenship, examine how different professional musicians connect with underserved communities, and how students can use their creative talent and entrepreneurial skills to create performances and projects that can elicit social change through music. Following training, students are required to participate in additional community service performances.
ELECTIVE COURSES
GRMUS-TJ S602 -- Introduction to Music Education
2 credits
Fall
Anita Lee
Wednesday 11:00-12:45
This introductory course is designed to provide a broad survey of the fundamental principles of music teaching and learning including an overview of educational theory, psychological foundations of learning and effective approaches to pedagogy. Students will develop their abilities to deliver classroom material effectively as well as teach performance, focused primarily on instrumental lesson instruction. Reading assignments strengthen students’ understanding of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Teaching practices give students the opportunity to practice teaching in a safe environment and obtain feedback from their peers. Observations of master teachers and reflective writing assignments help students to find their individual voices as educators and reflect critically upon their personal development as music educators and performers.
GRMUS-TJ S605 --The Challenges of Contemporary Music
2 credits
Fall
Gergely Ittzés
Friday 10:00-11:45
This class is designed to build a bridge between late-romantic and avant-garde and experimental music. Students will become familiar with atonality; unconventional notation; complex rhythms and meters; extreme dynamics and an enhanced range of articulations and colors, including extended techniques. Class meetings will be devoted to group playing exercises supplemented by lectures, analyses, and class listening assignments. Materials include methods such as ‘Creative Music Activities’ by Hungarian composer László Sáry and materials by composers such as John Cage and Stockhausen and the course instructor. Students will also have the opportunity to create guided and free improvisations.
GRMUS-TJ S606 -- Arranging for Small Ensemble
2 credits
Fall
Yiwen Shen
Wednesday 11:00-12:45
Arranging for Small Ensemble will explore making music arrangements for solo with or without piano accompaniment, and various common or mixed instrument groups, such as piano trio, string quartet, woodwind quintet, as well as mixed instrumentation. The goal of the course is for students to grasp fundamental tools that will help them to rearrange works for their instruments or chamber groups using notation software such as Finale or Sibelius.
Core Skills Courses
Note: The following seven (7) courses are pre-requisite courses that may be required of students according to their major and based on results of placement exams.
ETMUS-TJ 511 1X --Ear Training Ix
0 credits
Fall
Niccolo Athens
Section A Tuesday 9:00-9:50 and Friday 9:00-9:50
Section B Tuesday 10:00-10:50 and Friday 10:00-10:50
Section C Tuesday 11:00-11:50 and Friday 11:00-11:50
Section D Tuesday 12:00-12:50 and Friday 12:00-12:50
The first semester of an accelerated two-semester review course builds the ability to notate melodic and harmonic passages with a high degree of accuracy within a limited number of hearings, and the ability to sight-sing using the basic skills of interval fluency and melodic memory. A particular emphasis will be placed on hearing harmonic function, and students will gain the ability to work fluently in any major or minor key on a foundation of fixed-DO solfège. The first semester covers syllables, scale degrees and singing and dictating all intervals including atonal intervals; mastery of treble, bass, alto and tenor clefs, and singing and dictating root position triads up and down from any given note, circle of fifths root-position chord progressions and basic root position chord progressions with a particular focus on major and harmonic minor keys with five or more sharps or flats. May be required of all majors according to the results of a placement exam.
KSMUS-TJ 511X -- Keyboard Skills Ix
0 credits
Fall
Chang Wang
Monday 9:00-9:50 and Thursday 10:00-10:50
This accelerated two-semester review course covers the essential elements of Keyboard Skills. Areas of study in the first semester include realization of figured bass lines; composition of complex harmonic progressions; reduction of three- and four-part scores utilizing varying clefs; an introduction to orchestral transpositions and prepared reduction of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; and transposition of 19th-century lieder up and down minor seconds and thirds. May be required of all majors in collaborative piano and chamber music: piano majors according to the results of a placement exam.
KSMUS-TJ 001-2 -- Sight-reading for Pianists I
0 credits
Fall
Chang Wang
Tuesday 10:00-10:55 and Friday 10:00-10:55
This yearlong practicum trains students in the art of sight-reading piano scores. During the first semester, emphasis is placed on approaching scores with an eye toward musicality, including articulation, phrasing, and dynamics. Rapid identification of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns is stressed. Students will sight-read diverse musical styles, including contrapuntal works, sonatas from the late 18th century, harmonically complex works from the 19th century, and non-tonal works. May be required of majors in collaborative piano and chamber music: piano majors according to the results of a placement exam.
KSMUS-TJ 141 -- Piano for non-majors I
0 credits
Fall
Chang Wang
Tuesday 12:00-12:50 and Wednesday 11:00-11:50
Designed for students with very little or no prior experience in piano, this course develops familiarity with five-finger position and basic keyboard harmony, as well as simple repertoire. Required of all non-keyboard majors. May be required of majors in orchestral studies and chamber music: strings majors according to the results of a placement exam.
KSMUS-TJ 142 -- Piano for non-majors II
0 credits
Fall
Chang Wang
Tuesday 12:00-12:50 and Wednesday 11:00-11:50
Prerequisite: KSMUS-TJ 141. Designed for students with very little or no prior experience in piano, this course develops familiarity with five-finger position and basic keyboard harmony, as well as simple repertoire. Required of all non-keyboard majors. May be required of majors in orchestral studies and chamber music: strings majors according to the results of a placement exam.
KSMUS-TJ 241 -- Piano for non-majors III
0 credits
Fall
Chang Wang
Friday 9:00-9:55 pending
Section A Tuesday 9:00-9:50
Prerequisite: KSMUS-TJ 142 or placement test. A continuation of Piano for Non-majors II, students in this course will broaden their pianistic skills while developing finger and hand independence. Among the skills to be mastered are full-octave scales, harmonization of melodies, chord progressions in keyboard style, and repertoire that involves shifting positions and various left-hand accompaniment patterns. Required of all non-keyboard majors. May be required of all majors in orchestral studies and chamber music: strings majors according to the results of a placement exam.
KSMUS-TJ 242 -- Piano for non-majors IV
0 credits
Fall
Chang Wang
Friday 9:00-9:50 pending
Section A Tuesday 11:00-11:50
Prerequisite: KSMUS-TJ 241or placement test. A continuation of Piano for Non-majors III, students in this course will broaden their pianistic skills while developing finger and hand independence. Among the skills to be mastered are full-octave scales, harmonization of melodies, chord progressions in keyboard style, and repertoire that involves shifting positions and various left hand accompaniment patterns. Required of all non-keyboard majors. May be required of majors in orchestral studies and chamber music: strings major according to the results of a placement exam.
Collaborative Piano Courses
Note: all of the following collaborative piano courses are required of all first-year collaborative piano majors.
MSMUS-TJ R623-4 -- Repertoire Performance
0 credits
Fall
This component of applied studies for Collaborative Piano majors consists of public performance of required repertoire.
GRMUS-TJ R623-4 -- Studio Accompanying
0 credits
Fall
Collaborative Piano majors accompany in the studios and classes of instrumental faculty. A component of their major study, this requirement provides valuable hands-on experience in developing collaborative skills under the guidance of an extensive roster of professional musicians.
VAMUS-TJ 591 -- Lyric Diction (Italian I)
2 credits
Fall
Katherine Chu
Wednesday 4:00-4:55 Friday 4:00-4:50
The first semester of this two-semester course sequence covers the fundamentals of Italian diction and essentials of legato as the basis of lyric diction and singing, beginning with an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and Italian phonetics and pronunciation rules, as well as the introduction of basic grammatical elements with special emphasis is placed on developing phonemes.
This course may be repeated.
VAMUS-TJ, 581 Lyric Diction (German)
2 credits
Katherine Chu
Wednesday 5:00-5:55 and Friday 5:00-5:50
An overview of the basics of German pronunciation and spelling rules, this course focuses on mechanics and reproduction of the German sounds, and how they are used as tools for expression. Students will gain command of IPA transcriptions of German texts, understanding of the lyrical characteristics in German diction that shape text declamation and musical interpretation.
GRMUS-TJ, 685-6 -- Vocal Literature I (German)
2 credits
Katherine Chu
Thursday 4:00-5:45
A survey of the works by major composers of German Lieder through performance and discussion of the songs in class, as well as examination of the major exponents of German poetry that inspired and defined the genre. Students are required to prepare phonetic transcription and translation for each piece, and also encouraged to explore the quintessential text-word relationship in Lieder.
GRMUS-TJ, P677 -- Opera Performance Technique I
2 credits
Katherine Chu
Tuesday 4:00-5:45
This course focuses on the techniques of rehearsal playing and music preparation in an opera studio, addressing specific skills such as rendering orchestral effects on the piano, making enhancement to piano reductions, understanding the conductor and basic principles of operatic conducting, working with different types of recitative and the related stylistic concerns.
GRMUS-TJ P611 -- Collaborative Skills: Instrumental I
2 credits
Fall
Natalia Katyukova/Allie Su
Thursday 4:00-5:45
This two-semester practicum addresses different genres of instrumental collaborative piano performance. The fall semester focuses on orchestral reductions, virtuoso show works and shorter duo works. Emphasis is placed on empathetic listening and a nimble alternating of roles between partners in accordance with the musical demands of any particular piece of repertoire. Participants will play in class every week with visiting instrumentalists usually without prior rehearsal.
This course may be repeated.
GRMUS-TJ P621 -- Collaborative Skills: Vocal I
2 credits
Fall
Katherine Chu
Monday 4:00-5:45
This two-semester practicum explores specific skills required of pianists to successfully rehearse, coach
and perform different genres and styles of vocal music including both operatic and song repertoire, with the periodic participation of visiting vocalists. The first semester covers the standard aria repertoire of various eras and languages, emphasizing the pianist’s role in providing orchestral texture and rhythmic structure for the singer. Selected song repertoire focusing on the dual nature of the pianist both as a coach and as a collaborative partner to vocalists will be studied.
This course may be repeated.
Language Courses
Note: English language courses may be required based on the results of a language assessment; learning strategies will be personalized accordingly.
ENGL-TJ 101 -- Graduate English I
0 credits
Fall
Bob Burke
Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-3:45
This course meets for 2 hours per week and is designed to enable graduate students to develop their English skills for professional, academic and artistic purposes within the music culture at Tianjin Juilliard and across global musical networks. Coursework will guide students to develop fluent, confident communication skills to support their professional activities, and facilitate music-focused scholarly work. The curriculum covers areas of English study such as professional music practice, music appreciation, music terminology, English for academic purposes, cross-cultural communication and reflection on language learning.
Students required to take this course are expected to pass the course with a grade of at least “B”.
ENGL-TJ 111X -- Graduate English Intensive I
0 credits
Fall
English Language Faculty
Section A Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday 1:00-2:15
Section B Monday Tuesday Thursday Friday 1:00-2:15
This version of the Graduate English course meets for 4 hours per week.
Students required to take this course are expected to pass the course with a grade of at least “B”.
ENGL-TJ 201-- Graduate English III
0 credits
Fall
Faculty
Section A Tuesday and Friday 12:00-1:00
Section B Tuesday and Friday 12:00-1:00
A contiuation of the required English language curriculum for second-year students based upon assessment after completion of Intensive English or Graduate English during the first year of study.
Students required to take this course are expected to pass the course with a grade of at least “B”.
Academic Communication and English Program
The Tianjin Juilliard School’s mission is to train musicians who will become global ambassadors in their respective fields, and English proficiency is a key component of this international status. English is the medium of instruction at Tianjin Juilliard, and specialist language support is a central feature of the Tianjin Juilliard experience.
About Academic Communication and English (ACE)
The Academic Communication and English (ACE) program is for students who have been admitted to The Tianjin Juilliard School’s MM degree programs, but whose English is not at the level required for direct entry to the MM.
ACE is a qualifying requirement for the MM degree. Completing ACE is required for students to obtain their degree. Students will take a placement test during the new student orientation in August. If students do well on the test, they may be able to skip further English study and enter the MM program right away. It is recommended that students accepted with the ACE focus on improving their English over the summer to increase their chances of passing the test.
About ACE
All students accepted with the ACE requirement must attend ACE Summer. Then, depending on the placement test results, some students will continue study on one of two English learning paths: Graduate English Seminar (GES) or English and Communication (ENC) + GES. To finish ACE, students must successfully complete the required GES modules for their designated pathway.
ACE Summer
ACE Summer is compulsory for all students admitted to the MM with the ACE requirement. ACE Summer is a two-week online + on-site program of study, the schedule of which is below:
- Week 1：August 11-14, 2025 (online, via Microsoft Teams)
- Week 2：August 18-21, 2025 (on-site at the Tianjin Juilliard School)
Placement Test
The placement test (Cambridge Michigan Language Assessment or CamLA) is an 80-question test of listening, reading, grammar and vocabulary. The CamLA will be administered to all ACE students during orientation week.
- Students who score 71-80 on CamLA do not have to study English further and will be permitted to exit ACE.
- Students are matriculated to Graduate English Seminar (GES) pathway if they score 64-70 on CamLA.
- Students are matriculated to English and Communication (ENC) + GES pathway if they score 63 or below on CamLA.
Advisory Council
The Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council is comprised of exceptional individuals dedicated to supporting and advancing the mission of The Tianjin Juilliard School, ensuring the highest standards of excellence for Juilliard's new branch campus.
YOUNG--Shirley. The Tianjin Juilliard community is deeply saddened by the death of our great friend Shirley Young, an inaugural member of the Tianjin Juilliard School Advisory Council. A person of extraordinary intellect, determination and vision, she had an enormously positive impact on Sino-American relations for decades. She was particularly successful in using the arts to bring China and America together. We send our condolences to her family members and her many friends.