A quintet made up of the Tianjin Juilliard's faculties (from left) He Wei, Sheila Browne, Zhang Daxun, Zhou Xiangyu and Scott Bell play in a recent event in Tianjin. (Photo provided to China Daily)

Conductor Yu Long (right), head of the Tianjin school's advisory council and Joseph W.Polisi, chief China officer and president emeritus of the Juilliard School.

Yoheved Kaplinsky, artistic director of the pre-college program of the school, tutors a student.