On June 5, SHOU held the 3rd Student Music Competition (Piano) at the Lecture Hall of Student Activity Center, with the intentions of strengthening campus spiritual civilization and cultural construction, providing a stage for students, improving their humanity attainments, and promoting the all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetics and labor education. The competition was sponsored by the Art Education Committee, and undertaken by the College of Marine Culture and Law and the library. Also present at the competition were Zheng Weidong, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Committee and Director of the Propaganda Department; responsible persons of the Labor Union, the Students’ Affairs Department, the Graduate School, and the library. The judging panel consisted of Kang Ming’an, Deputy Secretary General of the National Art Education Society for Colleges and Universities; He Shan, member of Shanghai Youth Federation of Literary and Art Circles; Wang Yuebing, member of Shanghai Musician Association; and music teachers Lv Jihong and Cao Yuan.

Wang Jiaxin from the College of Foreign Languages played Trilogy of Antiquities, which kicked off the event; The Crave presented by Tu Luning from the College of Information Technology brought the rhythms and free spirit of Jazz to the audience; the Don’t You Know performed by Shan Pingyi from AIEN Institute was a combination of Chinese and Western elements, and the beautiful melodies, thick key sounds, and wonderful singing injected new life into this song.

The trio Butterfly, presented by Jin Jie, Zhang Zijun, and Ge Yuanhong from the College of Foreign Languages and the College of Food Science and Technology, led the audience into a digital world, and gave them a force to forge ahead; the piano-saxophone duet La La Land performed by Zhou Zixian from the College of Food Science and Technology and Lv Xing from AIEN Institute was pathetic, and brought the audience into the emotional world of the hero and heroine of the film.

At the end, Mei Sixuan, champion of the first piano contest (solo), performed Ninghtingale, and the chorus and Chinese zither band of SHOU jointly presented The Red Flowers Blossom.