Heavenly Original Voices Open a New Chapter; Children's Harmonies Illuminate a Splendid Movement — The 'Voice of the Future' Choral Competition Opening Original Concert Makes a Stunning Debut

On May 17, the opening concert of the "Voice of the Future" Youth (and Children's) Choral Competition of Chongqing Normal University's Chongqing Tchaikovsky Music School was splendidly staged at the Concert Hall of the University Town Campus, officially raising the curtain on this major choral event.

The opening concert presented the superb original work Three Soundscapes of Chongqing, composed by Fyodor Amozov, a faculty member of the Chongqing Tchaikovsky Music School, based on a poem by Sergei Irinev, and created specially for this occasion. The work was conducted by Wen Qi, Associate Professor of Chongqing Normal University and Chairman of the Chongqing Choral Association, with Wu Jingyu, Vice Dean of the School of Music of Chongqing Normal University, as the lead vocalist, and performed by the Silk Road Choir of Chongqing Normal University. The violin and cello were played by Sergei Irinev and Fyodor Amozov, faculty members of the Chongqing Tchaikovsky Music School, with Yang Zhuoya, a faculty member of the School of Music, on piano accompaniment. This powerful collaboration of Chinese and Western artistic forces wove the spirit of Chongqing's mountains and rivers, its urban character, and its human warmth into the melody. The work combines the rigorous texture of Western music with the gentle poetry of Eastern aesthetics, rich in layers and profound in imagery; the immersive audio-visual experience moved the entire audience and drew prolonged, enthusiastic applause.

This splendid opening concert not only set an elegant and professional tone for the choral competition with its high artistic standard, but also, through the original feature piece Three Soundscapes of Chongqing, showcased our school's top-level faculty strength, original artistic achievements, and distinctive internationalized education, vividly composing a moving chapter of Sino-Russian artistic exchange and integration. Following the opening ceremony, the "Voice of the Future" Youth (and Children's) Choral Competition officially began. Multiple primary and secondary school choirs took the stage one after another, using pure harmonies and impassioned performances to express Chongqing youth's love for and pursuit of choral art, and to demonstrate the fruitful achievements of aesthetic education in the city's primary and secondary schools.

This series of events uses music as a medium and art as a means of education, not only building a professional choral exchange platform for young people and children, but also, through the performance of original works, demonstrating Chongqing Normal University's strength in internationalized education and its original mission in aesthetic education. The music may pause, but the passion never ends. Let us look forward together to these young people continuing to sing their own brilliant moments on future stages!