By Huang Tianling

can learn to play the violin with the virtuoso. Such experience is so good...’a few days ago, at the Master Violin Music Workshop by the Linglong Lake in Dongbuzhou Science Park in Haimen Linjiang New District, a violin performance charity class was started as scheduled. Wang Lijuan, an employee from an enterprise in Dongbuzhou Science Park, was able to play a simple musical piece Happy New Year slowly, after several times of guidance from the teacher.

The instructor who conducted the charity class is Klochko from Belarus. After he performed some famous violin pieces, he interacted with every youth with not so fluent Chinese, tutored and guided them, and occasionally corrected positions and postures himself.

Klochko, 66-year-old, was born from a family of violin music. After he graduated with a master degree from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia, he worked at Belarusian State Academy of Music, and got a PHD from Belarusian State Academy of Music. He won a championship in Soviet Union National Concerto Champion at a young age. After graduating with a doctorate, he went to France, served as the first-chair violinist of Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, and started his tour around the world. This autumn, invited by Dongbuzhou (Nantong) Music and Art Exchange Co., LTD., he came to Dongbuzhou Science Park.

‘The quiet and beautiful environment of Dongbuzhou Science Park attracted me. It feels like an art center.’ Klochko said. While practising violin, he conducted charity classes on evenings from Monday to Thursday, strengthening the communication and exchange with local residents. Now more than 40 local youths are learning violin with him. Dongbuzhou (Nantong) Music and Art Exchange Co., LTD. also provides violin learning and training for young people for free.

A virtuoso from Germany is also attracted by Dongbuzhou Science Park. Rainer Granzin, a German jazz pianist, composer, synthetic music producer, and permanent mentor of German Youth Orchestra, came to China with his Chinese partner —— Cheng Hongyu, a Guqin player in Germany and Distinguished Professor of Academy of Music of Southwest University. In the past few years, they have used music as media to convey the beauty of music and life to people. In the autumn of 2022, they were invited to Dongbuzhou. After experiencing the art atmosphere here, they did not hesitate to settle here.

‘The scenery is beautiful and the climate is comfortable, which gave me a lot of creative inspiration. It is something that large cities do not have.’ Rainer Granzin is deeply in love with Dongbuzhou. He organized several piano recitals by Linglong Lake, and shared the piano music At Yangzi composed by him.