The youth sounds out

Met star brings Confucian ideal to recital

Bertel Krarup, director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, compared Chinese and Western music cultures and discussed promoting Chinese music through cultural exchange.

Diao Yan, deputy editor of Chinese Folk Music, spoke on the importance of "telling Chinese stories" in the spread of Chinese music works.

In June 2012, during the then Chinese president Hu Jintao's first visit to Denmark, the Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban, China's Central Conservatory of Music and Denmark's Royal Danish Academy of Music jointly established the world's first Music Confucius Institute in Copenhagen, which specializes in the education and spread of Chinese music.

It is in line with the overall planning of Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban, which aims to transform from mainly teaching the Chinese language into a comprehensive platform for culture exchange.

Since its foundation, the Music Confucius Institute has held a number of events, including the First MCI Music Festival in Denmark and a concert in France.

"Our goal is to build the institute into a Chinese music culture center in Europe, and bring happiness to people from all over the world through Chinese music," Liu says.