On January 22, the National German Radio produced a special program lasting for more than 90 minutes that introduced and broadcast seven original musical works composed by Professor Xu Zhibin, head of the Composition Department of the School of Music of NUA and a member of the Association of Non-Party Intellectuals, Professor Ye Hongde of the Composition Department and junior faculty members Zhou Yang, Hu Shuhan and Wang Shali. Their compositions were recorded by the German E-MEX-Ensemble at the world-renowned Deutschlandfunk Chamber Music Hall.

Program link: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/musikalische-gruesse-aus-nanjing-100.html

The National German Radio provided the creating process in detail during the special program and said, "Nanjing used to be the ancient capital of six dynasties. With eight million inhabitants, it is a metropolis from a European perspective, while from a Chinese perspective, Nanjing is just a provincial capital. In 2019, the E-MEX-Ensemble from Essen visited the city to give concerts and teach students at the Nanjing University of the Arts (NUA). Xu Zhibin, professor of composition at the School of Music of NUA, quickly became friends with the German musicians. The idea arose to follow the short visit with another project by both sides. The ensemble planned to perform works by Nanjing composers, but the Covid-19 pandemic did not allow that. They therefore practiced the compositions in Germany and recorded them at Deutschlandfunk Chamber Music Hall in October 2020. The seven works by the five male and female composers are very different in their instrumentation and character, but they do have one thing in common: they all focus more on timbre than on harmony and melody. This recording with the E-MEX-Ensemble offers insights into a young, fascinating composer scene that is still  completely unknown in Europe."

The seven works listed as below.

1. String Quartet Emergence (composed by Xu Zhibin)

2. Shi Tao's Picturesque Scene III: Clear Sound of Mountain and Water for piano (composed by Xu Zhibin)

3. Sixfold for flute, clarinet, percussion and string trio (composed by Ye Hongde)

4. String Quartet Wind Entwined (composed by Zhou Yang)

5. Enlightenment for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano and string trio (composed by Zhou Yang)

6. Happy, Lively and Revengeful Teeth for piano, viola and cello (composed by Hu Shuhan)

7. Twilight Golden Lining for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello (composed by Wang Shali)

These works broadcast on the National German Radio have showed the professionalism of the composition faculty of the School of Music and received high acclaim from German performers and the mainstream media. They have also indicated the fruitful attempts of Chinese composers to explore the combination of traditional cultural revival and artistic contemporaneity, and broadcast the "voice of China" to the world. (Association of Non-Party Intellectuals of NUA)