Historically, the College of Music as another on-campus program debuted on the decades-old AXHU community with its ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Multimedia Hall of AXHU Research Building Friday afternoon, Jun 20, 2025.
A large community of leaders and experts with AXG, AXHU, and collaborative units elsewhere, the inaugural administrators and staffers at the College, some reporters with social media agencies, representative students, faculty and staff from the other schools and departments, attended, congratulated and celebrated the milestone event, which is setting out a ‘transcendence’ in the new era.
‘Centerpiece’ Practice of AXHU Education of Art: Rolling out a new journey
At first, AXHU executive vice president WANG Li announced the authorities’ document of Founding and Staffing of AXHU College of Music, with which WANG Xiaoge was named the dean, ZHAO Lin the honorary dean, PENG Zhi the executive dean, and TANG Peixuan the executive vice dean, which was moderated by AXHU vice president WANG Qijin.
And AXG chairman WU Junbao along with WANG Xiaoge inaugurated and marked the ‘SHIELD’ moment.
During the dean WANG Xiaoge’s inaugural speech, mainly sharing her artistic experiences, lifelong aspirations, innovative perspectives, and the future of music education at Chinese higher learning institutions. All in all, “our duo engagement on the new ‘stage-and-field’ with not only fostering the next-generation talents of music based on AXHU degree programs, but also advancing the academic research on the Musicology involving Composition, Voice & Opera, Musical Instruments, Conducting, as well as Music Artificial Intelligence and Music Information Technology, referring to national cultural confidences and the compelling solutions while impassioning the conceptual Chinese Dream.”
After taking office as the first deanship, she continued, “here, we will be committed ourselves for the shared history of AXHU Education to cultivating the excellent undergraduates of music based on the innovative pattern of ‘Degree + Certificate + Professional Education,’ to combining the humanistic education with a wider network of world-wide leading artists and ‘breakup’ researchers in this field to build the younger dedicators’ spiritual world—nobly, romantically, and passionately—, and to making them much more competent and vibrant as the civilized transmitter and informed conveyor to disseminate the Chinese cultural, ideological, artistic icons, around the globe.”
When taking off from the starting point, we are about to turn into headwinds in ‘all-weather flying’ filled with either opportunities or challenges toward any ‘International Arrival’ at the premier educational destinations in the world, as our academic staffers and prospective students as of has been eager to propel an early time of AXHU-wide high-quality evolution from 2025 on, while fueling the three-pronged ‘Engine’ of ‘Fundamentals-Solidarity-Connections’ for retooling the uplifting process of contemporary music and the performing arts, Dean Pend charted sincerely.
For the June 20 opening of the Conservatory, the future development of AXHU Education-brand will be with its growing entourage of support staffers gathering to the Powerhouse well-performed of the cutting-edge industrial resources and profound disciplinary backgrounds, rooted in the three-point understanding of ‘To steer the innovative education, break up the conventional cognitive barriers, explore some brand-new pattern for Industry-University joining forces;’ ‘To embrace a broader view of the global music industry to prepare Top talents of international impact;’ ‘To serve social communities and make the residents’ well-being and welfare a cultural reality as much needed in the new era,’ and navigating en route for the new generations of talented musicians featuring the artistic creations and market insights, the dean Tang said.
To serve, locally, through exploring chain-of-thought education
for college students’ sustainable career and other priorities
“For all AXHUers, this is another memorable moment more than 20 years later, and also is a solid stride toward our common goals, deftly taking the ramp-up time to achieve them by surprise via optimizing the intramural disciplinary layout, deepening the feature educational research, as well as injecting the cultural impetus to the Anhui-area prestigious growth at scale,” the Provost Zhao asserted.
But, “cross-cutting academic integration and the continued consolidation for the structural education of Art at AXHU, which is already home for the College of Music, today, is unswerving as well as far-impacting stance to practice the working statement: ‘For educating the high-quality applied talent of big career potentials characterizing with innovative spirit... So, the extended educational service will first come up to being in new forms, while mining the indigenous musical resources to grow the soft power of generating a portfolio of decent standouts from the on-campus musical works and to make the Anhui-style cultural impact more significant to the world.”
In particular, the College members should further the connections with some of the leading professionalized enterprises like the Shanghai-headquartered NEWBAND 牛班and Beijing-based Duo Ao Di Di多傲迪迪, when improved sharply on the one-stop platform gathering together the professional resources on the fronts with an all-hands-on-deck effort for teaching, training, rehearsing, creating, displaying, and more, to aid the students’ all-through development and discoveries in their courses ranging from day-to-day classroom to the central stage highlighted in the near future.
A constellation of star musicians
—Star-studded lineup are coming, moving toward the AXHU spotlight.
Respectively, appealing to the leaders and audience, the dean Wang Xiaoge in person introduced the supportive staff members onboard that was meantime flashed on both the central stage and the outfield giant screen, whose accomplished careers, including classical music, pop, jazz, musical theater, music education, and much more, make them reputed, respected and identified as the pioneering ‘Ironman’ battling at many international ceremonies of ‘Breakthrough Prize’ over the course.
At the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, or elsewhere, Prof. Wang sparked a wider ‘renaissance’ occasioned with her summits-approaching performing experience and the job performance (or as co-curator) at home and abroad, such as ‘Carmen,’ ‘Le Nozze di Figaro,’ and her personal music album ‘Blooming Time’ at the world’s level, when rendering the West’s traditions of musical art forms into the East’s soils of civilization (and vice versa) in the Domestication-based beauty standards and approaches of any kinds.
Likewise there are qualities of the executive vice dean Tang’s works, who once acted as the music composer/producer for ‘SHENG SHENG BU XI,’ ‘Produce 101,’ ‘Chinese Idol,’ and other national-level variety shows,—typically exemplifying their multifaceted romantic lead as the founder or angel investor for music bands, director of music drama, music critics in significantly broader ways.
“Today, gathering together a hall of famous first-tier artists and professionals in peer support for AXHU-wide disciplinary construction in this new field, where we should work out with our best-ever skills, techniques and insights filled with our love, passion and responsibilities from just now on, while coaching with our highest-ever music-related accomplishments and other promotional programs to help the AXHU 2025 September’s new intakes know what’s good career and lifestyle on their own when they clock in later at the magic campus, already expressively and proactively according to the initial results as good as the farther steps to follow,” Wang Xiaoge pledged.
Speaking with media outlets: ‘The future of Education of Art’
Later, centered at the pressing issue of ‘positioning for talent cultivation programs, spotted on rising University-Enterprise cooperative values’ while multitasking to keep up the good work, the vice president Wang Qijin said of much more, hereinafter, sided with the dean Wang Xiage’s team, in his interviews with the reporters and writers assigned from the Anhui Provincial Education Department and the AXHU Office.
“Would a broader combination of social resources and professionals staying active on the front stage, like NEWBAND, Duo Ao Di Di, or others, be preparing a higher platform as we hoped to deepen the intensive ‘exercise,’ ideally?” some reporters asked profoundly.
But until now “the MOE’s initiative on the overall educational updates and transformations nationwide has slightly been confronted with some real-time challenges in light of the new standards of ‘new quality productivity’ for filling the regional educational needs,” president Wang responded enthusiastically but philosophically.
“Hence, the theory-turned-solution as you can see here and now, is transforming our educational policies’ having significant benefits to and from the great potentials at the landmark industries aforementioned, with which to expand and accelerate the on-campus disciplinary research, plus down-to-earth educational practices to the next level, plus the ‘capstone’ artisans co-working onto the top of the multi-store ‘Tower’ full of melodious glamours based on the AXHU’s academic foundations.”
“What kind of new talents the College will always educate and channel?” another reporter got interested in.
“The entire educational process—at least during the 4-year AXHU academic career—should take into account that all the takers should be at full capacity to become professionally recognized with their own applications related to their majors and specialties, like vocal music, instruments, stage presence, as well as the relevant theories and analysis and appreciations,” Wang Xiaoge added.
Correspondingly, coming up with some writer’s ‘prompts’ involved in the action context of the concrete, localized operations anyhow, the representative faculty ZHANG Bingbing unveiled the early frameworks beforehand, therein, for teaching the general musical courses such as the fundamentals of Music Theory, Choreography, Stage Performing Arts, Vocal Music Performance, Keyboard Music, Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments, and much more, saying “our College’s fellow staff is willing to stay up to date among the worldwide circles of music, to join as many casts excelling in musical show of sorts as possible, and to invite them to go into AXHU classrooms to ignite the in-class sparks to transform what the younger students have and will learn of and what potentials they can tap into, altogether, when someday standing near to those celebrities flaring on stage.”
As for the employment-oriented perspectives, moreover, the undergrads of Musical Performance should take up the opportunities but challenges by scopes spanning education, cultural communication, administration, self-media innovation & creation, occupational test and accreditation, and so on, “taking the posts as troupe actor, musical drama cast, TV shows producer, music teacher and the like, rather enthusiastic, competent, and responsible for the K-12 education, training institutes, or higher learning institutions, stewardship of mass entertainment companies, direction and management for the national culture units/authorities across all levels,” the exec vice dean Tang stated detailedly on the site.
So far, the ceremonial event has had charted another substratum of AXHU community to erect its monumental architecture of Education of Music, which opened a beginning of the chapters, enjoying a pride of educational innovative breakthroughs to encourage all the AXHUers to soar into the skies, and is also a divine fest as being celebrated as a landmark of starting a very different future as the visiting gusts, leaders, experts and reporters witness and guide us home, where there are full of conscientious, talented, gifted, and beloved musicians, who willingly help co-build a warm, gilt-edged ‘musical cradle’ nestled in the southern reach of Dashushan mountain in the city of Hefei, already for greeting the next-generation talents of music, as they all long expected to revive and recharge the national strengths of cultural excellence with their concerted efforts.
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