Recently, Zhang Zheng'er, a student of the 2025 joint preparatory class jointly run by Chongqing N…
Recently, Zhang Zheng'er, a student of the 2025 joint preparatory class jointly run by Chongqing Normal University and the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, successfully entered the Russian-style specialist degree program at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Here, we extend our warm congratulations to Zhang Zheng'er! This outstanding achievement is not only the result of her long-term diligent study and perseverance in honing her professional abilities, but also a powerful demonstration of the effectiveness of the college's Sino-Russian integrated talent cultivation model.
Lu Chao is a teacher at the Chongqing Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Chongqing Normal University, a young pianist, a doctoral graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and the "Principal Soloist" of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Symphony Orchestra.
As Zhang Zheng'er's professional instructor, he has devoted himself to Russian-school piano teaching. During the student's preparation for the Moscow Conservatory entrance examination, he patiently accompanied her and taught her according to her level, providing careful guidance and long-term refinement throughout the entire process—from performance techniques and musical understanding to the entrance assessment. With professional and meticulous cultivation, he helped the student successfully pass the assessment. This excellent admission result is both a testament to the student's diligent study and a full demonstration of Teacher Lu Chao's solid teaching foundation, his advantages in cross-border Sino-Russian music teaching, and his refined educational capabilities.
The Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory is one of the world's largest, oldest, and most renowned music institutions. The conservatory was co-founded by Nikolai Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky and officially established in 1866. Its founding mission was to create a professional music institution comparable to Europe's top schools, and as early as the late 19th century it became a core center of music education in Russia.
Over more than a century, the conservatory has nurtured a large number of world-renowned musical giants, including Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Richter, and Rostropovich. Today, the conservatory has approximately 2,300 students from countries around the world. It offers seven core departments, including piano, orchestral instruments, vocal music, and composition theory, and brings together a strong faculty of internationally top-tier musicians and educators.
The conservatory integrates teaching, stage performance, and music research. It is equipped with first-class facilities such as a large concert hall, a rare sheet music library, and professional music laboratories. It has more than twenty professional art ensembles and regularly conducts international academic exchanges. The conservatory inherits the orthodox Russian music school system, emphasizing mentorship, timbre refinement, and comprehensive professional training. The musicians it cultivates possess extremely strong competitiveness in the international music world. In 2026, the conservatory will celebrate its 160th anniversary. For a century and a half, this palace of art has continued to pass on the torch of classical music and has set a benchmark for global music education.
Leveraging the unique advantages of the deep integration of high-quality Chinese and Russian music education resources, and giving full play to the distinctive effectiveness of Sino-foreign cooperative education, the college will continue to refine its international music talent cultivation system, iteratively upgrade its teaching support facilities, and build multi-level channels for Sino-foreign artistic exchange. It will cultivate more music talents who are both professionally excellent and virtuous, with a global vision, and will continue to promote the deep integration of Chinese and Russian humanities and arts. It is committed to building a high-end international music education hub in central and western China and to writing more brilliant chapters on the new track of Sino-foreign cooperative art education.