Overview
The Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival offers two weeks of rich and vibrant programs featuring a stellar line-up of artists and provides participants with invaluable experience working alongside internationally renowned pianists and teachers through master classes, lectures, private lessons, and performances, including the exclusive opportunity of performing concertos with orchestras and prominent conductors. With a line-up of stellar artists, the festival aims to create a world-class event for young pianists and the music-loving community to come together for an experience to remember.
Festival Snapshots
Get a glimpse of the highlights of the previous Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival
TJPF 2024
The 2024 Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival (TJPF) took place from August 4 to 18, 2024 at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.
The festival inspired and encouraged music-making of the highest levels, offering two weeks of rich and vibrant programs. Piano participants gained invaluable experience working alongside the world's finest pianists and teachers through master classes and private lessons, including the exclusive opportunity of performing concertos with our Festival Orchestra and prominent conductors.
TJPF offered concerto concerts for competition winners, a final gala concert, multiple performances by eminent artists, 12 public master classes, 12 participants recitals, lectures, and more than 300 hours of private lessons.
With a line-up of stellar artists, the festival created a world-class event for young pianists and the music-loving community to come together for an experience to remember.
TEACHING ARTISTS
Michel Béroff, Paris Conservatoire, France
Jan Jiracek von Arnim, mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
Claudio Martínez-Mehner, Musikhochschule Basel, Switzerland; Hochschle für Musik und Tanz Köln, Germany
Yong Hi Moon, The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ronan O'Hora, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
Ewa Poblocka, Academy of Music Bydgoszcz, Poland
Boris Slutsky, Yale School of Music, USA
Minsoo Sohn, New England Conservatory, USA
Xiaohan Wang, The Tianjin Juilliard School, China
Danwen Wei, Central Conservatory of Music, China
Ting Zhou, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
Alvin Zhu, The Tianjin Juilliard School, China
PERFORMING ARTISTS
CONDUCTORS
PROGRAM BOOK
Click here to view the program book of TJPF 2024.
TJPF 2023
The inaugural Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival (TJPF) took place from July 30 to August 13, 2023 at The Tianjin Juilliard School in China.
The festival inspired and encouraged music-making of the highest levels, offering two weeks of rich and vibrant programs. Piano participants gained invaluable experience working alongside the world's finest pianists and teachers through master classes and private lessons, including the exclusive opportunity of performing concertos with the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and prominent conductors.
TJPF offered a total of two concerto concerts, a final gala concert conducted by Chen Lin, three performances by eminent artists, 12 public master classes, 12 participant recitals, several lectures, and more than 250 hours of private lessons.
With a line-up of stellar artists, the festival created a world-class event for young pianists and the music-loving community to come together for an experience to remember.
TEACHING ARTISTS
Sofya Gulyak, Royal College of Music, UK
Yoheved Kaplinsky, The Juilliard School, USA
Gabriel Kwok, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong, China
Jinsang Lee, Korea National University of Arts, Korea
Yong Hi Moon, The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, USA
Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Academy of Music Gdańsk, Poland, Academy of Music Bydgoszcz, Poland
Dan Shao, Central Conservatory of Music, China
Wojciech Świtała, Academy of Music Katowice, Poland
Albert Tiu, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Singapore
Arie Vardi, Hochschule für Music, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany; Bachmann-Mehta School of Music, Israel
Xiaohan Wang, The Tianjin Juilliard School, China
Yunlin Yang, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Sa Chen - Laureate, 2000 International Chopin Piano Competition
Sofya Gulyak - Laureate, 2009 Leeds International Piano Competition
Andrew Tyson, The Tianjin Juilliard School, China
Alvin Zhu, The Tianjin Juilliard School, China
PROGRAM BOOK
Click here to view the program book of TJPF 2023.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Founders: The Tianjin Juilliard School; Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area Administrative Commission
Organizer: The Tianjin Juilliard School
Philanthropic Supporting Organization: Tianjin Juilliard School Education Development Foundation
China-US Joint-Venture Education Partner: Tianjin Conservatory of Music
Collaborating Ensembles and Organization: Suzhou Symphony Orchestra; QingXin Ensemble
Piano Partner: Steinway Piano Asia Pacific Co., Ltd.
Performance Venue Partner: Anglican Art Centre
Hotel Partners: The Ritz-Carlton Tianjin, Intercontinental Tianjin Yujiapu Hotels & Residences
