The Central Conservatory of Music, referred to as Zhongyin, is located in Yanjing, the capital of China. It was founded in 1949. It is an institution of higher education that cultivates senior professional music talents. It belongs to the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and is the only "211 Project" key construction university among art colleges in the country.

For music students across the country, the Central Conservatory of Music is the holy church in their minds. Although there are many key conservatory schools across the country, including Huaxia Conservatory of Music, Huhai Conservatory of Music, Haijin Conservatory of Music, Beiyang Conservatory of Music, etc., which are also very famous in China. But if you talk about the "best", it must be an alto. In particular, the piano department of alto is the undisputed first in the country.

The Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music was founded in 1950. In the development process of more than 60 years, legendary figures have emerged here, from Zhu Shimin, Yi Kaiji, to Zhou Guangren, Li Qifang, and Yang Ming... The names of these people may not be well-known in the pop music circle, but in the hearts of students who specialize in piano learning, they are no different from great gods!

There are also many world-famous performers who have walked out from here, including Gu Shengying, Li Mingqiang, Liu Shikun, Yin Chengzong, etc., and Lang Lang, Li Yundi, Chen Sa... Many of these people are still active on the world piano stage and have considerable influence around the world.

Piano is an instrument introduced to China from the West and has not had a long history in China. However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the piano gradually heated up in China. On the one hand, as the king of musical instruments, the piano itself has a huge audience and public awareness. On the other hand, as people's living standards continue to improve, owning a piano has become easier and easier. For the purpose of cultivating children's artistic cells, more and more children learn piano. As of now, conservative estimates are conservative. There are 8 million piano students in China, which is a huge base. It is natural that so many people who learn piano, it is normal for some particularly outstanding performers to emerge.

The Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music is the official institution with the highest level of piano teaching in China, no one. But at the same time, if you want to be admitted here and become one of them, it is difficult for the majority of students who study piano!

As the most authoritative teaching institution of piano in China, the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music has always taught with the goal of cultivating professional piano performance talents, rather than taking the path of combining amateur and professionalism like other schools, recruiting hundreds of people every year.

The piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music has 25 teachers, including 11 teachers in the chief teaching and research department. Each of these people is a famous master in the Chinese piano world, but here is just an ordinary teacher.

How many students are there in the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music? This year's latest statistics. 81 undergraduates and 30 master's students.

Take a look at the comparison of these two data and you will know what kind of education is being implemented here. This is set up to train pianists. The ratio of teachers to students is close to 1 to 5, which means that there is no pressure to implement one-to-one separate teaching here. In piano teaching, one-to-one teaching is the most common form. Because everyone's playing style and defects are different, if you want to get the best teaching effect, only teachers and students can teach step by step. However, this teaching method has high requirements for teachers, especially in cultivating pianist-level teaching. The difficulty coefficient is even more extreme, because the master-level piano teachers are not Dabaicai. These people have a lot of knowledge in China. Only places with super profound backgrounds like the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music can do it!

These teachers, whenever they go out, to other music colleges, are all piano department chairs and professors, and go to the stage. They transform into performers! Under their step-by-step teaching, and the students who can enter here have experienced many difficulties and layers of selection, and they are already quasi-performers before they come in. The combination of such advantages makes it difficult for students who go out here to not be outstanding!

It is precisely for this reason that students who graduated from the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music always have a natural sense of superiority. They never bother to compare with students of the Piano Department of the Conservatory of Music in China, all of which are top international colleges and events such as the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music, Carnegie, Golden Hall, Lister Cup.

Chu Yang took the college entrance examination two years ago. At that time, his grades in cultural courses were excellent and he was ranked in the top ten in the province. In addition, his application for an art school was also an art school, and the first choice was the West China Conservatory of Music, so he should have naturally become a freshman in the piano department of the Conservatory of Music.

Even because of his outstanding performance in the professional examination, he has obtained the entrance pass for West China Conservatory of Music.

But Chu Yang entered the system at that time and worked for two years. From the Ministry of Culture to Zhongxian, Chu Yang practiced his music in another way.

Because of his outstanding performances in performances such as the folk music competition, the Voice of China, Renmin University, etc., he entered the vision of the Central Conservatory of Music and several other conservatorys. The Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music even sent him an invitation, but Chu Yang did not come.

This is probably the only time that the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music has been rejected. You know, they have never taken the initiative to invite a student. Every year, students who want to come to them to learn piano are almost overwhelmed. They are not too late to recruit students, so how can they take the initiative to invite them?

So after being rejected, several old directors of the piano department were also a little angry. On the one hand, they were angry that the student did not cherish his talent and actually went to politics. On the other hand, they were also angry that their piano department was despised. For these professors who have their own pride in the piano field, Chu Yang's performance was a disrespect for them.

Two years later, this incident was almost forgotten. However, an unexpected news revealed the old story from two years ago.

Wu Yingdi is the director of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. He is 51 years old this year. He is a real old man in the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music. Although after becoming the director, his main focus has shifted to business, but professional things have not been left behind. Now when he sits back in front of the piano, Rachmaninov and Liszt play it with his hands, there is no problem at all.

What? You say Beethoven and Mozart? Don’t tell me that you only know these two famous pianists. In fact, they are not pianists, but composers. It’s just that their piano works are more famous. But in the professional field, their works are not top-notch in terms of performance difficulty.

If you have only heard of Beethoven's "Fate", "Moonlight", and Mozart's "Turkish March", and knowing that these represent the "professional" in piano performance, it can only be said that you do not have a deep understanding of professional piano performance.

These songs are considered medium at most in the professional level. Of course, this refers to the "Moonlight Sonata". "Fate" is a symphony, and there is nothing piano in it. As for Mozart's "Turkish March", of course you may be very familiar with it, and even used it as a ringtone for mobile phones, but if you think this is a very difficult piano piece, then you are completely wrong. This is just a very entry-level song. In the classification of piano amateur grading, please note that I am talking about "amateur", and it is just an eight-level song.

Or you want to say that Level 8 is already very high. You can also think so, but that is only relative to students who are studying piano. Note that the word I use here is "student". Even if your piano passes Level 9 or Level 10, it does not mean that your piano is "study". In fact, this is just the beginning. If you don't give a discount, you complete Level 10 completely according to the requirements of the grading exam and meet this requirement, at most you will be a primary school student who has just graduated from the piano.

If you want to ask, what is going up? Let me tell you that there is also "playing level" when going up.

What is "performance level"? You can understand it as cultivating professional piano performance, which is a level division for pianists.

At this level, the works you will face are no longer the 599, Bach's two creative songs, small sonatas and some Chinese and foreign piano sketches. You will come into contact with the works of a series of master composers and performers such as Chopin, Lister, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Haydn, etc. And what you play is no longer the kind of small sonata and prelude with only two or three pages, but a complete set of large sonatas, suites and even piano concertos. These songs are often dozens of pages, and a song is a book, and the time for playing is often more than ten minutes or even dozens of minutes. The notes in each song are tens of thousands...

Only when you reach this level can you say that you are no longer a "student", but a pianist at the level of "quasi-performer".

Of course, at this time, you cannot be called a real pianist, because you have to participate in a series of top professional events. It is not held at your doorstep, a cup, provincial or municipal piano competition sponsored by a certain art school, or even a CCTV piano violin and other competitions held by the central government. You are going to participate in the "Tchaikovsky Cup International Piano Competition", "Liszt Cup", "Chopin Cup"... These top international events and have won the top scores in the top, which can prove that you are qualified to be a "pianist".

From this, we can see how difficult it is to become a real pianist. How many people in China's 8 million piano boys finally fought through these layers of selection and elimination?

Director Wu has trained many outstanding students over the years, and he has a high authority in piano performance teaching. He personally checked the entrance examination of the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music every year. This is a selfless person who wants to enter the piano department by relying on the back door of his relationship, but he has no door.

However, today Director Wu received a notice that he could not accept at all.
Chapter completed!