Events Photo Gallery

10th anniversary celebration concert in Hinton Hall, March 2026.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Lunar New Year Concert at MTSU James E. Walker Library, February 2026.

Lunar New Year Dumpling Event, February 2026.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Fall Semester Concert Songs Beneath the Silver Moon, November 2025.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Performance at Vanderbilt University, October 2025.

‘Boro International Fest, September 2025.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Fall Concert Silk Washing Sand, October 2024.

Joy of Meeting concert in Hinton Hall featuring guest artists, October 2024.

A Time of Beauty poetry exhibition at MTSU Center for Chinese Culture and Music, October 2024.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble on tour to China, July 2024.

Brushing Beauty: Learn to Paint the Chinese Way workshops, February 2024.

MTSU Chinese Music Ensemble,visiting artists, and the Middle Tennessee Mingzheng Chinese Music School Lunar New Year Celebration concert, February 2024.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Fall Semester Concert, November 2023.

Lebanon Special School District visit to the MTSU Center for Chinese Music and Culture, November 2023.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble members performed for the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C., October 2023.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble performed in the Gloria-Schott Hall at the University of North Georgia-Dahlonega, October 2023.

Dr. Tan Ye, a specialist in Chinese literature, film, and theater gave a lecture discussing the relationship between the moon and essential elements of Chinese art and literature, September 2023.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble performed Chinese Cultural Connections Concert for the Global Education Center at the Darkhorse Theatre in Nashville, April 2023.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Spring Concert Sewn from the Mother Tune, April 2023.

Acclaimed pipa virtuoso Wu Man presented Music for Hope in Hinton Hall, April 2023.

Dr. Mei Han and Dr. Deanna Little presented Silk and Silver: Convergence of Colors and Cultures in Hinton Hall, February 2023.

Visiting Scholar Luijing Liu presented Spring Dulcimer: Virtuosity Meets Romance in Hinton Hall, January 2023.

Intersection and the MTSU Center for Chinese Culture and Music presented Convergence, a three-day festival exploring new sounds through cross-cultural compositions, featuring Haiqiong Deng, September 2022.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Spring Concert online performance, April 2021.

An online event featuring Nobuko Miyamoto discussing her journey as a female artist, March 2021.

MTSU Chinese ensemble Spring concert online performance, April 2020.

Visiting Scholar Jun Tian performed Reflections: CLouds and Blossoms with the MTSU Symphony Orchestra, February 2020.

Visiting Scholar Jun Tian and renowned guitar player William Yelverton performed in a concert in Hinton Hall, February 2020.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Winter Concert, December 2019.

Acclaimed Chinese singer Su Yang and Grammy award-winning Jim Lauderdale performed together in The River as Song: A Music Dialogue, October 2019.

Dr. Youping Li gives a lecture on the Chinese bronze bells during the Age of Confucious, September 2019.

Neither East Nor West: Art Exhibition, comprising contemporary art pieces by Chinese artists, Summer 2019.

MTSU Chinese Ensemble Spring Concert, April 2019.

The Airs of China: Elegant Poetry in Song as presented by acclaimed artists and scholars from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, March 2019.

Mountain, Water, Sentiments – Lecture/Performance on the Qin led by master musician Haiqiong Deng, March 2019.

Peace of Mind: Exhibit on the Art of the Chinese Qin, March 2019.

Erhu virtuoso Wei Xiaodong performed The Butterfly Lovers Concerto with the MTSU Symphony Orchestra, February 2019.

The Grand Song of the Chinese Dong ethnic group, sung by the famous Dong singing group from Guizhou, China joined by the MTSU Women’s Chorale, February 2019.

The Chinese Music Ensemble performed Elegant Music from China: Traditional and Contemporary in Hinton Hall, November 2018.

Master harmonica player Howard Levy and Chinese sheng virtuoso Hu Jianbing performed two historically connected free-reed instruments in a concert in Hinton Hall, October 2018.

World renowned Classical guitarist Johannes Moller and Dr. Mei Han presented a concert of traditional Chinese music and his Chinese-inspired compositions, October 2018.

MTSU Chinese Music Ensemble performance at the 5th Knoxville Asian Festival, August 2018.

An exhibition of Ancient Art of the Chinese Han Dynasty at the Nashville Public Library, Summer 2018.

MTSU Chinese Music Ensemble performance in Hinton Hall, April 2018.

Community of Many Faces event at the Nashville Public Library, April 2018.

Chinese Yueju Opera Performance by Zhejiang Conservatory of Music musicians, March 2018

Dr. Guanping Zheng gives a workshop on Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, March 2018.

Dr. Mei Han performs on zheng as a soloist with the MTSU Symphony Orchestra in February 2018.

Members of the Memphis Confucius Institute perform the Dragon Dance as part of the Murfreesboro Art Crawl in February 2018.

Grammy-winning American songwriter, acclaimed banjo player and activist, Abigail Washburn gives a lecture on Bridging Cultures through Language and Music on February 1st, 2018.

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition and workshop led by Dr. Nan Liu as part of the first Murfreesboro Festival of Chinese Arts in January 2018.

The Chinese Music Ensemble performs their last concert of the year, December 2017.

Collaboration between Nashville Intersection Music performing composition by Pulitzer Prize Winner Dr. Zhou Long and Chen Yi, 2017.

Professor Ji Jie performing as a soloist with the MTSU Symphony Orchestra in 2017

Zhengguang Li performing with the MTSU Symphony Orchestra, February, 2017.

Performing at Nashville Symphony’s Open Day, 2017.

CCMC Chinese Ensemble’s first performance at 2017 ‘Boro International Festival.

Dueling Dulcimer Concert at MTSU’s Hinton Hall, February 2017.

The center’s musicians perform at the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro, January 2017.

President McPhee greeting a group of artists from China led by renowned erhu master, Song Fei, October 2016.

Dr. Han with Center’s visiting musical teachers Zengguang Li, Jie Ji, and Xuanye Mi, October 2016.

Dr. Han with students at White House High School, October 2016.

A group of professors and students from the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing performed at the Center’s opening night.

Director Mei Han giving a speech at the Center’s opening ceremony.

In March, 2016, a 24-piece replica of Zenghou Yi chime bells arrived at the Center. This is the first set of this type of bells in North America.