About the Competition

Global Music Education League Violin Competition (China International Music Competition), with the mission of “promoting the exchange of different music cultures and cultivating the world peace ambassadors of music,” was officially launched in 2019 by the Global Music Education League and China Conservatory of Music. The Competition brings together outstanding musicians from all over the world to form a jury, and collaborates with the world’s top orchestras and music institutions to build the highest level of exchange and exposure for generations of young musicians. The Competition is designed to be annual, with different disciplines featured in subsequent years. 

• 2019  Piano Competition
• 2023  Violin Competition
   

The Grand Concert Hall of CCM

In 2005, the Grand Concert Hall of CCM engineering was established as 'the important construction project in Beijing'. It took three years and was completed in September 2008 basically. The completion ceremony of the Grand Concert Hall of CCM was held at 16:30 on 5th July 2009. On October 1st, the piano department held a piano festival to trial operation of the Grand Concert Hall. The Grand Concert Hall of CCM has a total investment of CNY126 million, gross building area of 139 thousand square meters, and an elliptical structure.

After meticulously acoustic effect tests, experts have express that all project indexes of the grand concert hall meet the design requirements. The acoustic effect and professional facilities are currently at the top level in Beijing.

The Grand Concert Hall is a professional and modern multi-functional music performance venue integrating practice of arts education and music cross-cultural communication with the world. As a window of Chinese national music cultural exchanges and an important bridge of artistic communication with other countries, the Grand Concert Hall of CCM is another important cultural facility in the Beijing Olympic Cultural Circle, which is closely with Beijing's urban cultural construction after the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube.

Seat：
Concert hall：970 of fixed seats, 27 of portable seats.
Opera house：302 of fixed seats, 20 of portable seats.
Rehearsal hall：could hold a large orchestra of 100 people.
 
Dressing room：
4 rooms for the concert hall（2 for the VIP，2 for public）
4 rooms for the opera house（2 for the VIP，2 for public）
 
Upright piano：
4 upright pianos for the concert hall
2 upright pianos for the opera house
 
Grand Piano：
Steinway D274: 3
Steinway C227: 1
Steinway G215: 1

National Centre for the Performing Arts

National Centre for the Performing Arts is an important national iconic cultural infrastructure. It is one of the "New 16 Scenic Spots" in Beijing. Surrounding the lake is a 190,000 m² green belt of trees, which blocks the hustle and bustle noise from Chang'an Avenue, making NCPA a spacious relaxation and leisure complex in the heart of the city. The central structure of NCPA is the steel and glass ellipsoid dome with a parameter of more than 600metres. The construction measures 212.3m across its longest axis (east-west), 143.64m across its shortest axis (north-south), 46.68m high and 32.50m at the deepest underground. The dome looks immaculate and magnificent, with its surface covered by 18,398 titanium plates and 1,226 pieces of ultra-transparent glass. The egg-shaped shell appears to float in a 355,000 m2 man-made lake full of gleaming water. These are not only greatly improved the ecological environment of the surrounding areas, but also embodied the concept of harmony and complementarity among people, art and nature. The National Center for the Performing Arts consists of the Opera House, the Concert Hall, the Theater, the Multi-functional Theatre and the Fifth Space.

The Opera House is the grandest venue in the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. The House stages operas, dance dramas, ballets and other performances. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,081. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit that can hold a 90-musician orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.

The Concert Hall in the NCPA boasts a distinct air of exceeding serenity and elegance. It features mainly large-scale symphonies and national music performances supplemented by occasional staging of musicals in other forms. The stage is surrounded by 1,859 audience seats in the stalls and two levels of balconies. The Concert Hall has the pride in housing its absolutely unique treasure – the biggest pipe organ in the country. The interior structure and its decoration are so designed as to create the best acoustic effect, thus achieving a perfect harmony of architectural beauty and up-to-date acoustic technology.

The Theatre is the venue most distinctive of China's national style, characterized by its Chinese-Red color tone. The surrounding walls decorated with silk embroidered coverings emit an air of traditional ardent atmosphere. The audience area has 957 seats – the stalls and three levels of balconies. The stage is equipped with hi-tech, theatrical stage and audio visual equipments, which are capable of transforming creative thought into performing reality. Its unique protruding apron stage is most suitable for Chinese traditional theatrical performance.

The Multi-functional Theatre is the most flexible venue to host various types of performance. The entire atmosphere inside is tranquility and elegance. Its fresh yet elegant style suits chamber music, instrumental solo and vocal solo, drama and modern dance. The auditorium has 19 rows of seats, totaling 498 (removable seats included). The Multi-functional Theatre was completed in September, 2009, officially put in use in October, 2009. Its completion not only extended the functional capability of NCPA, but also added one more place to the number of small theatres in Beijing.

The Fifth Space. Apart from the three big professional theatres and the small theatre, inside the giant NCPA building there is a spacious area of public spaces, where NCPA displays its splendor and vigor to the visitors. Those who come here find themselves in an exquisitely and uniquely designed architecture with enriched artistic displays, visit arts exhibition in various themes, and enjoy all kinds of art performance. The Fifth Space provides the audience with the possibility of personally experiencing the glamorous power of arts.