Joseph Polisi, the chief China officer and former president of the Juilliard School. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Speaking about the pre-college program which is on Saturday, he says it allows students to travel and spend a weekend in Tianjin.

As for the three programs for graduate studies, he says they are all focused on collaborative musicianship, and are different from those at the Juilliard School in New York.

"This is because young Chinese musicians have solid technique as soloists, but they also need to play together as a team."

The Juilliard School, founded in New York in 1905, has trained some of the world's best artists, including Van Cliburn, Renee Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma.

The school has enrolled students from China since the 1920s. And now, 30 percent of the students at the Juilliard School in New York are from outside the United States.

Currently, students from China form the largest single group of overseas students in the school.

The Juilliard School was introduced to its partners in Tianjin in 2011. And the cooperation was announced by Polisi when China's first lady, Peng Liyuan, visited the Juilliard School in New York on Sept 28, 2015, during a weeklong visit to the US by Peng and her husband, President Xi Jinping.

Speaking about the Tianjin school, Polisi says: "It will be a new hub for the entire region and a new destination for people who want to experience music."

He adds that the resident faculty members of the new school will form as an ensemble, presenting concerts and recitals worldwide, which is just like the renowned Juilliard String Quartet, the school's classical string quartet founded in 1946.