On the evening of June 13th, the National Art Fund 2020 Artistic Talent Training Project National Instrumental Music Talent Training Graduation Concert was staged in Zhejiang Concert Hall

At the beginning of March this year, 20 outstanding young folk instrumental music performers from all over the country gathered at the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music to participate in the “National Instrumental Music Performance Talent Training”, an artistic talent training project funded by the National Art Fund 2020 with Zhejiang Music as the main body. 3-month training. A few days ago, they just finished the training and still feel unsatisfied: "Not only is it a comprehensive improvement of our personal performance skills and comprehensive literacy, but also through us, it will affect the development of the entire national instrumental music performance industry."

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Wang Jie, an outstanding young dulcimer performer, has been performing and teaching for more than ten years in elementary school. She is now an associate professor of dulcimer at Xi'an Conservatory of Music, director of the Ensemble Teaching and Research Section of the Department of Folk Music, and vice-chairman of the Dulcimer Professional Committee of the Shaanxi National Orchestra Society. Although she is already an outstanding talent in the field of young folk instrumental music performance in my country, she attaches great importance to this training opportunity and immediately signed up when she saw the admissions brochure issued by Zhejiang Conservatory of Music.

Wang Jie said: "Since I started working, I have become more and more aware of the importance of continuous learning. In addition to the continuous improvement of our own performance requirements, we also need to continue to absorb the latest academic achievements, improve theoretical literacy and comprehensive quality, so as to better serve each player. Stage students carry out teaching.”

According to Professor Yang Jiuhua, the project leader and vice president of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, the 20 trainees participating in this project are all young and outstanding national instrumental music performers who have been selected at various levels. They come from professional colleges and professional art troupes across the country, and have obtained the professional titles of deputy senior (including deputy senior) or above, won awards at or above the provincial level, or undertaken research projects at or above the provincial level with outstanding achievements. Through further training, the aim is to "leverage the power of the whole country, gather the advantages of all families, and make every effort to cultivate leading talents of national instrumental music performance in the new era".

In addition to the high "threshold" for student selection, the curriculum and assessment are also quite strict. The project adopts a training method combining theory with practice, and offers humanities and arts courses, music theory courses, and professional guidance courses. After the intensive teaching, the students will also conduct artistic practice activities such as communication, collection, reporting and performance in Zhejiang Province. Only after passing the assessment and examination can they obtain the "Completion Certificate" issued by the National Art Fund Management Center.

Teaching by top experts
Achieve comprehensive improvement of skills and literacy

After leaving her job and coming to Zhejiang Conservatory of Music for training for three months, Wang Jie had to overcome many difficulties and pressures, but she saw that the project brought together people from the Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and China National Orchestra Society, The top teachers of the national first-class colleges, troupes and associations such as the Chinese Musicians Association, the Central Chinese Orchestra, and the China Academy of Arts, she was immediately "hearted". "Instrumental music experts Tang Junqiao, Zhou Wang, Yan Jiemin, Zhao Cong, etc., and theoretical experts Wang Cizhao, Tian Qing, Li Shiyuan, etc., are all first-class masters in domestic performance or theory. We can only read papers or watch them. When performing on stage, I didn’t expect that they could gather together to teach us online and offline.” Wang Jie said.

It is reported that in terms of teaching staff, the experts in this lecture include not only masters of national instrumental music, conductors, composers, but also theorists who are good at music analysis and research. Due to the epidemic, these experts take a combination of online and offline methods to teach. . They teach a variety of courses such as innovative development of folk instrumental music, traditional Chinese orchestras and contemporary changes and development, creation of contemporary Chinese folk instrumental music, research on Chinese instrumental performing arts, and inheritance and development of Chinese folk music. It is particularly worth mentioning that courses such as professional guidance and demonstration, band rehearsal, classical and contemporary folk instrumental ensemble, and folk music collection are offered around the practice of national instrumental music performance, highlighting the applicability, practicality and professionalism of the project.

In order to be able to come to Zhejiang Conservatory of Music to receive the guidance of famous masters, Xing Lu, an outstanding young erhu performer, associate professor and master tutor of Nanjing University of the Arts, with the support of Nanjing University of the Arts, adjusted the usual timetable for students to receive project training during the day and received training at night. Then, through the Internet, he conducts teaching for students far away in Nanjing, and imparts the latest playing concepts to his own students. "These teachers have extremely rich teaching experience. In professional guidance classes, even if they teach repertoires that we have been exposed to before, their understanding of the works is astonishingly high and deep, and they have important guidance for the improvement of our performance skills. effect." Xing Lu said.

In addition to the improvement of performance skills, what Wang Jie felt most deeply was the understanding and enlightenment of the teaching experts on the theory and aesthetics of national instrumental music, as well as traditional Chinese culture. She said that the country's requirements for national instrumental music performers in the new era are "integrated and diverse". In addition to having high-level performance skills, they must also have an understanding of music and art, grasp the aesthetic direction, and have a sense of the history of music at home and abroad. It is also very important to think about the direction of the development of national instrumental music. "I have received more than 20 lectures on theoretical knowledge, and each lecture is the culmination of the ideas of the teaching experts. We need to take a longer time to digest and absorb after the class." She believes that she has learned through this study. , "achieved a qualitative leap in his own musical path".

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Promote the development of national instrumental music

In addition to the centralized teaching, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music has innovated the training mode and held a series of special seminars, collection practices, report concerts and individual special concerts. For example, Zheyin used teaching resources, combined the teaching achievements and resource advantages of the Chinese Music Department, Musicology Department, Dance School, and Drama Department of the college, and launched an interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion to discuss the representative of opera, folk music, and Chinese dance. The development process of national music culture and the development direction of the new era, feel the similarities and commonalities contained in different disciplines, and jointly promote the process of research and development of traditional Chinese music culture. For another example, Zheyin led the students to visit Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe and other troupes and museums for on-the-spot collection. Through mutual performances and exchanges and discussions with the artists, the students could experience the artistic charm of Zhejiang folk music up close and further expand the scope of the music. Students, especially students from other provinces, have an in-depth understanding of the cultural diversity of ethnic music.

After the lecture and practice, Zheyin also organized 3 report concerts and 4 individual concerts, "Selecting some novel and difficult folk music works is not only a centralized report of our learning results, but also a presentation of our performance. The improvement of skills and the cooperation of the band brings the people a high-level artistic enjoyment of young and middle-aged performers across the country." Wang Jie said.

At the moment, the training has ended and the trainees have returned to their respective jobs. They brought back a thick stack of notes, "I have to read and absorb these notes repeatedly. Every review is a baptism of thought, which will affect my entire artistic career." Xing Lu also said that in addition to the personal impact, She will also pass on the results and feelings of her learning to more students, peers and audiences through teaching, performance, and communication. "We are all teachers and performers from the front line. I believe that the improvement of personal performance skills and comprehensive quality will definitely affect the development of the entire industry."

Li Guanglu, a sheng player and a doctoral tutor of the Chinese Music Department of the China Conservatory of Music, participated in the teaching of this project as an expert teacher. After the project, he spoke highly of the training. He said that the training project is an important measure for Zhejiang Conservatory of Music to comprehensively and systematically improve the comprehensive quality of young performance talents from the height of national instrumental music performance and industry development. , and it is an industry exchange that is inclusive of all rivers. Outstanding students from all over the country gathered together, brought their own performance characteristics and local culture, and learned from each other and taught each other with their teachers, and jointly promoted the development of national instrumental music in industry exchanges.

Ruan performer, professor and master tutor of the Central Conservatory of Music, Xu Yang also said that the training is far-reaching, high-level, rich in training content, and scientific in structure. Various ethnic instrumental music performances, even covering related categories such as opera performances, and through various forms such as wind collection and concerts, allow students to establish in-depth, rigorous and correct academic and artistic views, and instill a full range of knowledge for students and quality improvement.” She believes that Zhejiang Conservatory of Music has created rare learning conditions for young performers, who can develop together in a group and grow as a group, and will eventually become top-notch talents with solid theory and superb skills, and jointly promote the performance of the national instrumental music industry. develop.

Wang Rui, Dean of Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, also pointed out that Chinese music art has a long history. How to let Chinese music tell Chinese stories, spread Chinese spirit, and let people around the world understand China and understand China is an important mission for the current development of Chinese music. National instrumental music performance talent training Through training and improving students' professional performance skills, comprehensive humanistic cultivation, national cultural self-confidence and a new creative spirit, they can make steady progress and become the leading talents of national instrumental music performance in the new era. This is of great significance for inheriting and developing the performance of national instrumental music, which is an excellent traditional Chinese cultural expression. important manifestation.