This year, the Shangyin campus welcomed 782 new students. This morning, the 2021 opening ceremony of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music was held at the Shangyin Opera House. In order to ensure the safety of epidemic prevention and control, the school simultaneously conducted live webcasts, and some new students watched them scatteredly in classrooms or dormitories.
Liao Changyong, president of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, delivered a speech with the theme of "Talking about Choice, Talking about Spirit, and Talking About the Future".
"One hundred years ago, the Chinese Communists chose to establish the Party in Shanghai; ninety-four years ago, the Shangyin sages chose to establish China's first higher music school in Shanghai; and shangyin in the new era is also constantly practicing the spirit of Shanghai with practical actions and contributing to the improvement of the city's soft power."
Today, you who have the 'spirit of shangyin' have chosen the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Shangyin's school motto 'Heyi Zhuangcheng' means harmony, beauty, fortitude, integrity, modesty, seriousness, loyalty and trustworthiness, which embodies Shangyin people's pursuit of perfect art and the concept of art education. Entering the new era, the school has built a '1+6' core structure of the modern university governance system led by party building, realized the working mechanism and management closed loop of the whole life cycle of the governance system of the university of modern art, and with the vision of 'running first-class music education and creating an international advanced level', it has cut through thorns and forged ahead, and followed the positioning and cultivation of 'the leader of China's higher music education, the supporter of the strategy of cultural power, the contributor of Shanghai cultural brand, the traction of the Yangtze River Delta Music Alliance, and the demonstrator of international cultural and artistic exchanges' 'Top-notch innovative artistic talents with both moral and artistic integrity, red professionalism, international vision and all-round development'. ”
For the future, Dean Liao hopes that the students can be loyal to the party, the motherland and the people; respect the art and the stage; and always struggle and be young.
Professor Yang Yanyi of the Department of Music Education spoke as a teacher representative. She is one of the winners of the second "Zhou Xiaoyan Teaching and Education Award" of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and has played a role in promoting the construction and development of disciplines in the fields of music psychology, music pedagogy and music therapy. The theme of Teacher Yang's speech was: Falling in Love with Shangyin.
"Today's Shanghai Conservatory of Music has the best teaching resources in the country. How many young performers have gone to the stage at home and abroad from here and received eye-catching applause! How many composers have contributed their elaborate works to the world here! Today's Shanghai Conservatory of Music, in addition to classical and modern performance and creation, also has a strong theoretical, interdisciplinary and applied disciplines. Here, we can enjoy the exquisite performances of world-class masters and listen to the enlightening discussions of famous scholars. Here, the arts, humanities and natural sciences go hand in hand, leaving us busy shuttling through classrooms, piano rooms, laboratories and recording studios. Here, we can enjoy the audiovisual feast in the 360-degree free-rotating 'space capsule', or log in to the internationally connected database to find musical scores and literature. Here, we can have the privilege of meeting the older generation of scholars who are knowledgeable and rigorous in teaching, and we can also follow the new generation of teachers and feel the pulse of the times together. And all this is waiting for the students to participate and discover. ”
Hu Buzi, class of 2021, spoke on behalf of undergraduate freshmen. She has won the special prize of the National Secondary School Leadership Competition and other awards in the high school stage, after graduating from high school, in the face of the fork in life, she decided to follow the musical dream in her heart and apply for the Shanghai Conservatory of Music after rational thinking and careful choice.
"Once upon a time, shangyin was a lamp and a faith for us. It is always there, guiding us in the direction of thorns and thorns; and now, when we are really stepping into Shangyin and becoming a Shangyin person, Shangyin has become a mother, who is no longer so distant, but warmly embraces us in her arms, not only teaching us professionalism, but also answering questions and answering questions, teaching us what kind of person we are to be. Founded by Mr. Cai Yuanpei, this music hall that has witnessed the historical changes of nearly a hundred years has cultivated countless outstanding students from all over the world, constantly summarizing the experience and wisdom of predecessors, telling us that we must have love and awe at the same time, with a perfect and rigorous attitude, try our best to turn our inner abstract ideas into a realistic art form, not afraid of difficulties and obstacles, not afraid of long roads, always remember the enthusiasm and emotion when we first contacted this industry, sow seeds at any time, and blossom at any time. This is our luck, we have talent, and we have a platform to realize our talents; we have dreams and seize the opportunity to make dreams come true. For the next four years, I think I will be grateful for this every day. ”
The class of 2021 graduate students spoke on behalf of Iksan Abdul Salam. He studied both his undergraduate and master's degrees in Shangyin, and won the first prize of the second "Baichuan Award" composition competition in Shanghai in 2010, the only prize in the first Luciano Bellio International Composition Competition in Italy in 2019, and many of his works have been performed and published by domestic and foreign orchestras.
"I am an ethnic minority student from Xinjiang. From the day I stepped into Shangyin, I could feel the school's consideration and concern for ethnic minority students all the time. From every detail of daily diet and living, to celebrating ethnic traditional festivals together, to various course designs and rich and diverse artistic practice platforms suitable for the characteristics of ethnic minority students, it reflects the great importance and professionalism of Shangyin as the earliest institution of higher learning in the country to carry out the cultivation of ethnic minority music talents, and its great importance and professionalism in the inheritance of ethnic minority music and the cultivation of ethnic minority music talents. ”
"Recently, I have often been asked why I chose Shangyin as a platform for learning, delving into and exploring the art of music at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral stages. I think that the undergraduate choice of upper tone may be out of curiosity and desire for it, the choice of upper tone for the master is bound to be out of trust and affirmation of it, and the choice of upper tone for the doctor is undoubtedly out of the prospect and expectation of it. ”
Xu Xu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Liao Changyong, Dean of shanghai conservatory of music, Xu Wei, deputy secretary of the party committee and vice president, Li Yanling, deputy secretary of the party committee, secretary of the discipline inspection commission and supervisor, Cao Rongrui, deputy secretary of the party committee, Liu Ying, Hou Liyu and Feng Lei, members of the standing committee of the party committee and vice presidents, Zhang Jiachun, chief accountant, heads of departments and functional departments, representatives of teachers and new students attended the ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by Xu Wei.
Source: Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Edit: Jiang Fang