(Written by Jin Tie Lin, President of Conservatory of China, Chairman of Culture Association in Beijing, at the Chinese Spring Festival of 2007) 

As Ms. Julia Zhu’s vocal instructor for her Master Degree of Art, I’m very pleased to hear the news that Ms. Julia Zhu will give her solo concerts in America and China respectively.

Ms. Julia Zhu studied Chinese Traditional Music for her Bachelor Degree of Art at Shenyang Conservatory. After graduation from Shenyang Conservatory, she was enrolled to study for her Master Degree of Art at Conservatory of China. While studying the vocal skills of Chinese Traditional Music, she also studied western vocal skills. After three years of training and performing, she made a rapid and noticeable progress, developing gradually her distinctive style of singing, combining all features such as scientific, Chinese traditional, artistic and popular vocal skills into her performance.

Ms. Julia Zhu’s performing is a successful practice of combining of western and eastern vocal skills in a creative way.

At the beginning of a new year, everything is fresh and exciting. Ms. Julia Zhu’s solo concert to be held in the early spring of 2007, signaling rapid development of Chinese Traditional vocal art and bright prospect of Chinese traditional vocal art’s gradual entering global vocal community. I wish a success to Ms. Julia Zhu’s solo concert of Sino-US Friendship; and I believe that Chinese Traditional vocal art will develop rapidly in the 21 century; Ms. Julia Zhu will make her contribution to the worldwide harmony, singing of friendships, and promoting advancement and development of the human being in the world.