The Tianjin Juilliard School announces the inaugural Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival from July 30 to August 13, 2023. The festival offers two weeks of rich and vibrant programs featuring a stellar line-up of artists and provides participants with invaluable experience working alongside internationally renowned pianists and teachers through master classes, lectures, private lessons, and performances, including the exclusive opportunity of performing concertos with orchestras and prominent conductors. Juilliard faculty member and chair of the piano department in New York, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Xiaohan Wang, Tianjin Juilliard faculty member and chair of Pre-College piano studies in Tianjin, are co-artistic directors of the festival. 

  
  “Hosted at our iconic home for the performing arts in Binhai, all participants will have full access to state of the art practice facilities, performance venues as well as over 100 Steinway pianos on campus. The Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival will become one of the most exciting destinations for talented pianists from around the world,” said Wei He, CEO and Artistic Director of the Tianjin Juilliard School.
  
  The festival features 12 internationally renowned pianists as teaching guest artists. In addition to the co-artistic directors Yoheved Kaplinsky and Xiaohan Wang, teaching guest artists will include Sofya Gulyak, Gabriel Kwok, Jinsang Lee, Robert Levin, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Dan Shao, Wojciech Świtała, Albert Tiu, Arie Vardi, and Yunlin Yang. During the festival, they will hold a series of private lessons and master classes.
  
  Performing guest artists at the piano festival are Sa Chen, Sofya Gulyak, and Xiaohan Wang. Festival partners include the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra and Tianjin Juilliard affiliated ensemble, QingXin Ensemble. Chen Lin, Head of Conducting Department of Central Conservatory of Music will conduct the final gala concert of the festival. Participants will perform at concerto concerts with the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra conducted by the assistant conductor of NCPA Orchestra Jiajing Lai.
  
  The Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival is open to applicants of all nationalities who can now apply to one of the following three categories: Young Artist, Junior, and Auditor.
  
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