美國藝術學院宣佈推進中國分校計劃

The Juilliard School announced on Monday that it was moving forward with plans to expand in China, saying that it had received “preliminary approval” to build, with several Chinese partners, a school in Tianjin that would offer a master’s degree program.

茱莉亞學院(Juilliard School)週一宣佈，準備推進在中國的擴張計劃。學院已“初步獲得批准”，與中國的幾家合作伙伴一起，在天津興建一所可以提供碩士學位課程的學校。

The announcement was made by Juilliard’s president, Joseph W. Polisi, as China’s first lady, Peng Liyuan, a well-known singer, visited the school at Lincoln Center.

這個消息，是中國第一夫人彭麗媛在林肯中心參觀茱莉亞學院時，由該校校長約瑟夫·W·波利西(Joseph W. Polisi)宣佈的。彭麗媛是一位著名的歌唱家。

Juilliard has been hoping to open a school in China for several years. It said on Monday that it expected to open its Tianjin Juilliard School in 2018, in a new facility designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which worked on the expansion of its New York home. In addition to a graduate degree program, the Tianjin school would offer a precollege program and music lessons to students of all ages. Juilliard said that it was working with partners including the Tianjin Conservatory of Music, the Tianjin Binhai New Area CBD Administrative Commission and the Tianjin Innovative Finance Investment Company to develop the new school.

好幾年來，茱莉亞學院一直希望在中國開辦一所學校。該校週一表示，天津茱莉亞學院預計在2018年開校，校舍由Diller Scofidio+ Renfro設計。茱莉亞紐約總部校區的擴建工作也是由這家設計師事務所負責的。除了研究生學位課程之外，天津那所學校還會提供大學預科課程，併爲各個年齡段的學生開設音樂課。茱莉亞學院表示，它正在與天津音樂學院、天津濱海新區中心商務區管理委員會、天津新金融投資有限公司等機構合作，一起建立這所新學校。

China is seen as a huge growth market for classical music and music education. The New York Philharmonic recently helped establish the Shanghai Orchestra Academy, which aims to train and prepare emerging musicians to play with orchestras around the world, with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

在古典音樂和音樂教育領域，中國被視爲一個巨大的增長市場。紐約愛樂樂團(New York Philharmonic)最近與上海交響樂團及上海音樂學院合作，成立了上海樂隊學院。其宗旨是培養新一代演奏者，讓他們能隨樂團到世界各地演出。