The Music Department of Zhengzhou University was founded at the beginning of 200 1, and it is a key newly-built department of Zhengzhou University. There are music performance majors and musicology majors, and the professional directions are keyboard instruments, western instruments, national instruments, vocal music, dance and so on. At present, there are professional teaching and research sections of vocal music, instrumental music, music theory and dance, with 38 teaching and administrative staff, 30 full-time teachers (including 2 foreign teachers), 7 administrative staff, and 5 teaching assistants 1 person, including 5 senior titles and 5 masters 15, accounting for 54% of full-time teachers. Nine famous experts in the province teach part-time in our department all the year round. The music department has complete teaching facilities such as piano room, dance classroom, music theory classroom, small concert hall, reference room, DVD appreciation room and MIDI room.

The Music Department offers musicology and music performance, including vocal music, keyboard instruments, western instruments, national instruments and dance.

Performing major

Sound and music: bel canto, folk singing and popular singing.

Keyboard instruments: piano, accordion

Western musical instruments: violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, trombone, saxophone and drum set.

National musical instruments: erhu, pipa, dulcimer, guzheng and bamboo flute.

Dance: folk dance, classical dance, ballet, modern dance.

musicology

development planning

In the spirit of "high starting point, high level, first-class" school philosophy. Actively explore foreign exchange channels, strive to strengthen international exchanges, connect with the international community, take the road of internationalization, and cultivate high-level music talents.

Since the establishment of the department, many foreign musicians and music educators have been invited to visit, perform and communicate with the department. At present, the Music Department has established an all-round cooperative relationship with the Belarusian National Conservatory of Music, and now employs foreign teachers of piano and vocal music to teach all the year round. At present, it has reached cooperation intentions with universities in the United States and Canada, and international exchanges have further improved the running level of the Music Department of Zhengzhou University.

The long-term development plan of the Music Department is the Music College of Zhengzhou University. The new campus will be built with first-class teaching facilities with complete functions and facilities. The new Conservatory of Music will form a multi-level teaching model for graduate students, undergraduates, correspondence students and advanced students, and at the same time carry out multi-level quality education activities for the whole school and the society. With the continuous development of the music department, we will strive to build the music department into a first-class music college with high academic level and teaching level in a short time.

Strengthen international exchanges

Since the establishment of the department, many foreign musicians and music educators have been employed to visit, perform and communicate with the department. For example, in March 2005, Malan Carlson, a famous American conductor, was invited to our school to hold a special art lecture; Xue Wei, an international violinist, Wang Taiping, the chief violinist of the French Symphony Orchestra, Zuo Zhixiang, a Japanese international violinist, and Dasha, a young Dutch flute player, were invited to give lectures in the Music Department. The Oregon State Symphony Orchestra was also invited to perform in Zhengzhou. American tenor Bobby Noel came to our department to give lectures for three weeks and hold a solo concert.

At present, the Music Department has established an all-round cooperative relationship with the Belarusian National Conservatory of Music. Every year, Belarus sends a vocal music teacher and a piano teacher to the Music Department of Zhengzhou University to teach piano and vocal music, and every year, it also sends several students with excellent academic performance to the Belarusian National Conservatory of Music to study for master's degrees. In due course, Zhengzhou University will send young and middle-aged backbone teachers to the Belarusian National Conservatory of Music for professional further study or master's degree.

In March, 2005, our department signed an agreement with Taranto Conservatory of Music in Puglia, Italy, and the Italian side funded four teachers from the Music Department of Zhengzhou University to study in Italy. In June 2005, the Music Department sent two young teachers and two students to study in Italy. In the same year, we initially reached cooperation intentions with universities in the United States and Canada.

International exchange has further improved the running level of the Music Department of Zhengzhou University.

education for all-around development

Since the establishment of 200 1, the Music Department of Zhengzhou University has conscientiously implemented the guiding ideology of cultivating practical talents for the society, combining professional art education with quality education, and popularizing quality education while doing well professional teaching. These characteristic education projects are: to carry out art quality education elective courses and various lectures, weekend concerts, music salons, various performances and competitions inside and outside the school. These activities also provide a stage for professional students to practice art. Zhengzhou University is a national cultural quality education base for college students in 32 countries, and the music department has made great contributions to the construction and smooth acceptance of the base.

Since the establishment of 200 1, weekend concerts have been successfully performed for more than 100 times, which have been widely praised by teachers and students and become a major feature and highlight of campus cultural life. Every year, it also gives about 30 performances for school activities and society, and the students of music department have been tempered in these performances.