PFENSTJ 601: Major Study (Orchestra Studies)
4 credits
Fall
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 15:15-18:00
Rotation of visiting conductors
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 Studies students in each semester of residence. 

CMENSTJ 601: Major Study (Chamber Music) 
4 credits
Fall
Chamber Music 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.

CMENSTJ 603: Chamber Music Forum 
0 credits
Fall
Thursdays 16:00-17:45
Chamber Music Faculty
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.    

PCKMUTJ 601: Major Study (Collaborative Piano): CHU
2-4 credits
Fall
Katherine Chu
All students receive 6-9 one-hour private lessons each semester.    

PCKMUTJ 601: Major Study (Collaborative Piano): KATYUKOVA
2-6 credits
Fall
Natalia Katyukova
All students receive 6-15 one-hour private lessons each semester.

All students receive 15 hours of studio lessons each semester.

FLWTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Flute): ITTZES
4 credits
Fall
Gergely Ittzés    

OBWTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Oboe): LIU
4 credits
Fall
Mingjia Liu 

CLWTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Clarinet): ZHOU
4 credits
Fall 
Xiangyu Zhou

BNWTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Bassoon): KOYAMA
4 credits
Fall
Akio Koyama        

HPSTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Harp): HUANG
4 credits
Fall
Liya Huang

TPBTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Trumpet): TYUTEYKIN
4 credits
Fall
Sergey Tyuteykin        

FHBTJ 601: Studio Lessons (French Horn): HAN
4 credits
Fall
Chang Chou Han    
            
TRBTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Trombone): ALLEN
4 credits
Fall
Lee Allen            

BTBTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Bass Trombone): ALLEN
4 credits
Fall
Lee Allen

VNSTJ 601-01: Studio Lessons (Violin): HE
1-4 credits
Fall
Wei He

VNSTJ 601-02: Studio Lessons (Violin): W. LI
1-4 credits
Fall
Weigang Li       

VNSTJ 601-03: Studio Lessons (Violin): YU
1-4 credits
Fall
Angelo Xiang Yu     

VASTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Viola): H. LI
4 credits
Fall
Honggang Li

VCSTJ 601-01: Studio Lessons (Violoncello): KIM
1-4 credits
Fall
Yeonjin Kim    

VCSTJ 601-02: Studio Lessons (Violoncello): TZAVARAS
1-4 credits
Fall
Nicholas Tzavaras

DBSTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Double Bass): ZHANG
4 credits
Fall
DaXun Zhang    

PEPTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Percussion): HAHN
4 credits
Fall
June Hahn    

PNKTJ 601: Studio Lessons (Piano): WANG
4 credits
Fall
Xiaohan Wang    

PFENSTJ 511L: Orchestra
1 credit
Fall
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 15:15-18:00
Rotation of visiting conductors

CMENSTJ 531: Chamber Music 
1-4 credits
Fall
Chamber Music 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.

PFENSTJ 525R: Orchestra Ensemble Repertoire - Woodwinds
1 credit
Fall
Woodwind Faculty
Thursdays 9:00-10:45
    
PFENSTJ 526R: Orchestra Ensemble Repertoire - Brass
1 credit
Fall
Brass Faculty
Thursdays 9:00-10:45
     
PFENSTJ 527R: Orchestra Ensemble Repertoire - Percussion
1 credit
Fall
June Hahn
Thursdays 9:00-10:45
         
PFENSTJ 528R: Orchestra Ensemble Repertoire - Strings
1 credit
Fall
Section 1: Violin (Travers)
Section 2: Viola (Li)
Section 3: Cello (Kim)
Section 4: Double Bass (Zhang)
Thursdays 9:00-10:45

Section 5: Harp (Huang)
Fridays 11:00-12:00

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.

GRMUSTJ 601T: Music Theory and Analysis I
2 credits
Fall
Section 1: Tuesdays 9:00-9:55, Fridays 9:00-9:50
Section 2: Tuesdays 10:00-10:55, Fridays 10:00-10:50
Yiwen Shen
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.         

GENERAL GRADUATE STUDIES 

GRMUSTJ 600R: Collaboration and Interpretation
2 credits
Fall
Section 1: Mondays 9:00-10:45
Section 2: Wednesdays 9:00-10:45
Katherine Chu and Niccolo Athens
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.           

GRMUSTJ 602H: Music History II
2 credits
Fall
Section 1: Mondays 9:00-10:45
Section 2: Mondays 11:00-12:45
Section 3: Wednesdays 9:00-10:45
Alvin Zhu
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.

GRMUSTJ 600P: Community Engagement Practicum
1 credit
Fall
Section 1: Mondays 10:00-11:00
Section 2: Mondays 11:00-12:00 
Steven Liu
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

GRMUSTJ 604S: Composition for Performers
2 credits
Fall
Wednesdays 11:00-12:45
Niccolo Athens
The most direct way to counter the trend of increasing specialization in the roles of composer and performer is to encourage the creative aspirations of young players. This is the rationale for this composition seminar geared towards performance majors. Students will be equipped with practical skills in composition that can serve them in the future in preparing both arrangements and original works. Experience composing will provide students with insight into the creative process. Much of the class time will be spent in an open group lesson format looking over works in progress, ensuring that each student will receive individual attention from the instructor. If needed, the instructor will provide a more structured series of assignments designed to help students hone their compositional technique. The semester will conclude with a concert featuring new works composed during the semester.

GRMUSTJ 605S: The Challenges of Contemporary Music
2 credits
Fall  
Fridays 10:00-11:45
Gergely Ittzés  
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.

GRMUSTJ 606S: Arranging for Small Ensemble
2 credits
Fall
Wednesdays 11:00-12:45
Yiwen Shen
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.

GRMUSTJ 607S: Music and Society
2 credits
Fall
Fridays 9:00-10:45
Irena Klaic
In this course, students will explore the relationship between music and society and the role that music plays in everyday life. We will focus on the questions such as: why is music important to culture and society? How does it influence social change? What part does music play in global society? The course will focus on music history in the context of cultural history by taking an interdisciplinary approach and exploring the relationship between music and social change, power, ethics influence on literature, political movements, and intercultural communication, among others. During the course, students will be introduced to Information literacy and academic research.

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. 

ETMUSTJ 511X: Ear Training Ix
0 credits
Fall
Section 1: Tuesdays and Fridays 9:00-9:50
Section 2: Tuesdays and Fridays 10:00-10:50
Section 3: Tuesdays and Fridays 11:00-11:50
Section 4: Tuesdays and Fridays 12:00-12:50
Niccolo Athens
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.  

KSMUSTJ 001: Sight-reading for Pianists I
0 credits
Fall
Mondays 9:00-9:55, Thursdays 9:00-9:50
Chang Wang
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.       

KSMUSTJ 511X: Keyboard Skills Ix 
0 credits
Fall
Mondays 10:00-10:55, Thursdays 10:00-10:50
Chang Wang
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.        

KSMUSTJ 141: Piano for non-majors I      
0 credits
Fall
Section 1: Wednesdays 10:00-10:50
Section 2: Wednesdays 11:00-11:50
Chang Wang
Prerequisite: KSMUSTJ 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.     

KSMUSTJ 142: Piano for non-majors II
0 credits
Fall
Section A Wednesdays 10:00-10:50
Section B Wednesdays 11:00-11:50
Chang Wang
Prerequisite: KSMUSTJ 142.
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.

KSMUSTJ 241: Piano for non-majors III
0 credits
Fall
Section 1: Tuesdays 10:00-10:50
Section 2: Tuesdays 11:00-11:50
Section 3: Wednesdays 12:00-12:50 
Chang Wang
Prerequisite: KSMUSTJ 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.

KSMUSTJ 242: Piano for non-majors IV
0 credits
Fall
Section 1: Tuesdays 12:00-12:50
Section 2: Tuesdays 13:00-13:50
Chang Wang
Prerequisite: KSMUSTJ 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.

MSMUSTJ 623R: Repertoire Performance
0 credits
Fall
This component of applied studies for Collaborative Piano majors consists of public performance of required repertoire.      
      
GRMUSTJ 623R: 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.       
 
VAMUSTJ 591: Lyric Diction (Italian)
2 credits
Fall
Thursdays 16:00-16:55, Fridays 16:00-16:50
Collaborative Piano Faculty
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.

VAMUSTJ 593: Lyric Diction (French)
2 credits
Thursdays 17:00-17:55, Fridays 17:00-17:50
Collaborative Piano Faculty
The course covers the fundamentals of French lyric diction, beginning with an introduction to the French phonetics, spelling and pronunciation rules. Strong emphasis will be placed on drilling the idiosyncratic sounds in the French language and teaching how to reproduce them, as well as developing a sensibility to the French style as informed by its linguistic characteristics. Students will gain an understanding of the essence of the French legato through exercises, and learn the tools of how to teach and create an authentic French legato.

GRMUSTJ 685: Vocal Literature (German)
2 credits    
Fridays 14:00-15:45
Collaborative Piano Faculty
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.
    
GRMUSTJ 677P: Opera Performance Technique I
2 credits
Wednesday 16:00-17:45
Katherine Chu and Natalia Katyukova
Prerequisite: successful completion of Collaborative Skills: Vocal II
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.

GRMUSTJ 611P: Collaborative Skills: Instrumental I  
2 credits
Fall
Tuesdays 16:00-17:45
Allie Su
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.    
        
GRMUSTJ 621P: Collaborative Skills: Vocal I
2 credits
Fall
Mondays 16:00-17:45
Natalia Katyukova
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.   

Note: English language courses may be required based on the results of a language assessment; learning strategies will be personalized accordingly.

ENGLTJ 101: English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
0 credits
Fall
Mondays, Fridays 13:00-14:45, Tuesdays, Thursdays 13:00-15:15
Dan Cornish    
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is offered to current domestic and international students whose first language is not English, who are beginning their studies at Tianjin Juilliard School. Students are invited to join EAP following a post-admission assessment by the Director of English Language Studies.

EAP is not a course. Instead, EAP is a set of student-centered needs-based interactive sessions led by English teaching faculty and peer tutors using collaborative learning methods. The aim of these sessions is to have students practice and develop greater proficiency in general and academic English, and support students in acquiring foundational academic skills necessary to succeed in Tianjin Juilliard School academic courses such as Collaboration and Interpretation, Community Engagement, Music History, and Musical Entrepreneurship.
A total of 8 hours per week is set aside for students to participate in sessions including Academic Skills Workshops, English Support, Coaching, Academic Reading Circles, Community of Practice, and Office Hours.

ENGLTJ 201: English for Professional Purposes (EPP)
0 credits
Fall
Tuesdays, Fridays 12:00-13:00
Dan Cornish
English for Professional Purposes (EPP) is offered to current domestic and international students whose first language is not English, who are in their second year of studies at Tianjin Juilliard School. Students are invited to join EPP following an assessment by the Director of English Language Studies.
EPP is not a course. Instead, EPP is a set of student-centered needs-based interactive sessions led by English teaching faculty and peer tutors using collaborative learning methods. The aim of these sessions is to provide continuing support of students in terms of enhancing their ability to use English in professional as well as academic settings, as well as providing opportunities to consolidate the academic skills necessary to succeed in Tianjin Juilliard School academic courses such as Music History.
Two hours per week are set aside for students to participate in sessions including Professional Skills Workshops, English Support, Coaching, Academic Reading Circles, Community of Practice, and Office Hours. Additionally, students are given the option to attend any of the foundational Academic Skills Workshops offered through English for Academic Purposes (ENGLTJ-101).

LANGTJ 100: Mandarin I
1 credit
Fall
An elective course in mandarin starting with the fundamentals of vocabulary, pronunciation, tones, reading, and writing characters. Mandarin classes do not count towards the fulfilment of graduation requirements.