The Tianjin Juilliard Vocal Institute aims to create a unique ecosystem in which practitioners, students and aficionados of the vocal arts can enjoy the customized well-rounded learning experience; learn, appreciate and promote the art form from grassroots to professional levels in China.

Leveraging The Tianjin Juilliard School's first-rate teaching and performance resources, and nexus of world-class artist-teachers, the Vocal Institute focuses on the following pillars of programs and activities:

Presents interdisciplinary performances of mainstream and eclectic repertoire never performed in China
 

Programs and Repertoire Performed:
 

Family Show 

Magic Flute   

Vocal Chamber Music
RESPIGHI                       Il tramonto
BRITTEN                        Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
BRITTEN                        Second Canticle: Abraham and Isaac*
MESSIAEN                     La morte du nombre*
BOLCOM                        Hawthorne Tree*
CHOU WEN-CHUNG     Seven Tang Poems*
VILLA-LOBOS                Bachiana brasileira

*Chinese premieres

Liederabend
“Sonnets – Beauty in Fourteen Lines: Amore, Passione e Tormento”
“Character and Lives”
“The Gypsy Way”
“From Folksong to Art Song”
“Chinese Vocal Music: 100 Year Retrospect”
“Dialogue between Voice and Instrument”
“First Viennese School”
“Second Viennese School”

Upcoming
Immersive Theater:  Double Bills of Coffee Cantata, Bach, and The Telephone, Menotti
Les illuminations, Britten
Family Show: Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck

Commissions new works that promotes Chinese language and culture through fresh creations from emerging composers from both China and abroad

Commissions (world premieres)
SAM WU                        Songs across Aeons
ROYDEN TSE                 Fantasies on Tang Poetry
NICCOLO ATHENS        Songs of Homesickness
NICCOLO ATHENS        Shui Diao Ge Tou

Provides customized and systematic training with leading experts of the vocal field
 

Well-rounded and Modular Program Design

• Varied clientele
  • Undergraduate and graduate voice students wishing to improve through training not easily accessible to them
  • Students preparing for MM or DMA auditions abroad
  • Professional singers or teachers working in an institution and wishing to upskill
• Training content
  • Vocal technique
  • Vocal coaching
  • Diction and language
  • Dramatic coaching, acting and movement class
  • Yoga for singers
  • Topical lectures
• Time frame
  • Four sessions during the academic year, of varying durations from 3-day to 7-day sessions
  • Summer session of longer duration with customized themes and foci

Stellar Roster of Artist-Teachers

The Vocal Institute invites a consortium of singers, voice teachers, coaches, and stage directors working in the world’s most important opera houses such as Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Covent Garden, Vienna State Opera, Opera Bastille, Berlin State Opera, among others: Norah Amsellem, Lydia Brown, Laurie Feldman, Katharine Goeldner, Ying Huang, Martin Katz, Craig Rutenberg, Guang Yang and Zhengzhong Zhou.  

Nurturing Home-Grown Talents

The Vocal Institute nurtures home-grown talents by showcasing them as the “Tianjin Juilliard Vocal Institute Singers” in performances both at Tianjin Juilliard and in venues throughout China. In addition to supporting and training professional performers and teachers of singing, the Vocal Institute continually brings the beauty of vocal arts to wider audiences of all ages and levels. With a deep commitment to educating children and young people, the Vocal Institute employs multifaceted formats and innovative programming to broaden its influence and outreach, further amplifying its social impact through the magical human voice.

Application Timeline

All application will start on August 31.

Application Materials

Submit the Application Form online. 

Application Fee

No application fee need to be paid.
The 200 RMB registration fee is non-refundable and must be paid upon confirmation of participation.

Additional Private Lesson Fee
 

Please contact us at vocalist@tianjinjuilliard.edu.cn for more infomation.