Beijing 57 High School

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Cost breakdown: No public band fee or trip budget was found. Selection or audition fee: not published. School ensemble dues and instruction: not published. 2025 U.S. tour: member cost and fundraising target not published. Airfare, visa, lodging, meals, ground transport, and insurance are unpriced in the sources reviewed. These are information gaps, not confirmed charges; request a school-issued estimate before planning. The 5/10 cost score is a neutral placeholder, not a price estimate.

Beijing 57 placed 3rd among five International Class entrants at the 2025 DCI Open Class World Championship Finals with 65.300. Its separate World Championship Prelims score was 65.500, 32nd in the combined published field; that is not an Open or World Class membership rank. Official International Class Finals scores · Official World Championship Prelims scores.

Beijing 57 High School represents the scholastic side of international marching music. DCI lists the ensemble in its corps directory as a Beijing-based International participant. It is associated with a school rather than an independently recruited American touring corps. That distinction matters when comparing membership, instrumentation, travel and season structure. The verified English-language record is strongest for its 2025 American championship appearances. DCI profile.

Application status: No public band-member application was located. Use the official school website to ask about eligibility and recruitment.

Beijing 57 High School at a glance

Based in Beijing, China, the band competes as Beijing No. 57 High School Jinfan Marching Wind Band (北京市第五十七中学金帆行进管乐团). DCI lists it as an international participant; it placed third of five international groups at the 2025 DCI Finals with a score of 65.300. Consult Beijing No. 57 High School’s official website for current school information.

Program: Beijing No. 57 High School Jinfan Marching Wind Band (北京市第五十七中学金帆行进管乐团)

DCI listing: International participant

2025 DCI Finals: 3rd of 5 International groups, 65.300

Current school information: Beijing No. 57 High School official website

Beijing 57 High School Videos

CGTN’s documentary follows a cross-cultural music exchange and revisits the 2013 East Meets West Fusion Band, which joined Beijing 57 High School and Valley Christian High School. For a historical performance clip, see the third-party 2017 Jinfan Marching Wind Band season video. DCI’s corps profile and the official 2025 score records document its later DCI appearances.

Contact Beijing 57 High School

No band-specific public phone or email was verified. These are schoolwide contacts; ask the school to direct your question to the Jinfan Marching Wind Band or its arts program.

Beijing 57 High School on Social Media

I could not verify a separate public social account run by the Jinfan Marching Wind Band. To avoid linking fan pages as official, these cards point to the school and event sources that identify the program.

From around the web

Identity and the limits of the record

The name appears as Beijing 57 High School in official score tables and as High School 57 in DCI’s event reporting. Both refer here to the same Beijing ensemble. It should not be confused with High School Affiliated to BIT, the other Beijing school group at the same 2025 events. DCI described those two visiting ensembles as marching bands. That language is useful: appearing in DCI’s directory does not mean every international entrant uses the same recruitment or instrumentation model as a United States junior drum and bugle corps. DCI’s contemporary account.

Before DCI: a documented international marching-band history

A March 29, 2013 report from the Beijing Municipal Education Commission identifies the school’s Jinfan marching wind band, 北京市第五十七中学金帆行进管乐团, at the January 2013 Pasadena Rose Parade. It describes red-and-white-clad Beijing students interspersed with blue-clad American students in an East–West ensemble performing Jasmine Flower. Related Los Angeles performances included that piece and Men Should Strive for Self-Improvement, combining music with fan dance and martial-arts presentation. This places the school’s international marching activity well before its documented 2025 DCI appearance. Municipal education report (Chinese).

The education commission’s April 25, 2014 results for the seventeenth Beijing Student Arts Festival list Beijing No. 57 among first-prize recipients in the secondary-school marching-wind category. Multiple groups received that award category; it should not be translated as a unique overall championship. Official festival results (Chinese).

2025 championship journey

Sources: Marion prelims, Marion finals, Indianapolis prelims. The Marion position is an International-Class placement; the Indianapolis number describes the combined published results. Neither should be mislabeled as a World Class membership ranking.

At Marion finals, Calgary Stampede Showband led the International group at 76.800 and Calgary Stetson Showband placed second at 66.875. Beijing 57’s 65.300 placed it ahead of Calgary Round-Up Band’s 62.400 and High School Affiliated to BIT’s 60.875. The improvement from 63.900 to 65.300 across the two Marion appearances was 1.400 points. That is a same-week result comparison, not evidence of a long-term competitive trend. Official finals table.

What the trip required

DCI’s report identified Lin Fu as tour manager for the visiting Beijing groups. Fu described the challenge of traveling abroad with school students and the work members invested in preparation, including adjusting from metric field measurements to yards. The account conveys the importance of participation itself: an international tour combines musical preparation with practical adaptation to a different performance environment. It does not establish a permanent United States touring schedule or an annual commitment to return. Tour-manager account.

SoundSport connection

The official SoundSport registered-ensemble list, dated January 23, 2025, includes Beijing 57 High School under China and identifies its category as International. That establishes a documented connection with DCI’s broader participation network. A registry entry is not a complete competition history, an enrollment invitation or confirmation of a future event. SoundSport registry.

Watching and supporting

The best documented starting point for fans is the official DCI event coverage and the three score records above. Those establish where and when the ensemble appeared. A video with a similar translated school name should be checked against its date, uploader and event before being added to a historical archive. A publicly viewable clip does not itself grant permission to reproduce an entire performance. Volunteer, sponsorship and employment opportunities were not independently verified; direct offers through the school’s authorized office rather than an unconfirmed intermediary.

A school ensemble with a distinct identity

Beijing 57 High School’s ensemble is best understood in its own educational setting. Its Chinese name, Beijing No. 57 High School Jinfan Marching Wind Band, identifies a school-based marching wind program. DCI’s English directory label, “Beijing 57 High School,” is useful for event records, but it does not make the band interchangeable with a U.S. independent junior corps. The school context affects how recruitment, rehearsal, school obligations, travel, and expenses should be described. Public English-language sources do not provide a complete student handbook, annual band dues, or a current tryout process, so the archive keeps those details open rather than treating DCI participation as proof of an American-style touring model.

International exchange before DCI

The ensemble’s international story predates its DCI competition record. In 2013, students from Beijing 57 joined Valley Christian High School’s musicians in the East Meets West Fusion Band for Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses Parade. The Beijing Municipal Education Commission’s account describes the merged ensemble and performances that included “Jasmine Flower,” with fan dance and martial-arts elements. A CGTN documentary released in 2026 revisits the exchange through a reunion between the schools. The story matters because it places the band in a longer tradition of cultural collaboration, not just a one-time trip to an American competition. It also gives families and fans a useful lens on the relationship between marching performance, school arts education, and international student exchange.

Local contests and sustained arts education

Local records show the Jinfan band participating in Chinese marching arts as well as international events. Beijing’s education authority reported that in 2014 the school received a first-prize result in the secondary-school marching-wind category at the Beijing Student Arts Festival. In 2019, the Haidian District Education Commission documented a 170-person school delegation at the Jinbao music festival and the inaugural DCA Asia marching championship. The wind band and flag-dance team earned top awards across four categories, and the report identifies “Hun” as the wind program’s selection, weaving the melody of “Yangguan Sandie” with Chinese drums and dance. These details show how the group’s repertoire and performance forms can carry Chinese musical references into contemporary pageantry. They also show why a single DCI score cannot stand in for the program’s broader record.

The 2025 DCI appearance in context

At the 2025 DCI Open Class championship in Marion, Beijing 57 finished third among five International Class groups with 65.300. Two days later, the band appeared in Indianapolis World Championship Prelims and earned 65.500, placing 32nd in the combined results table. These are separate event results: the Marion placement is the International Class ranking, while the Indianapolis position describes the combined field published for Prelims. DCI reported that Beijing 57 and High School Affiliated to BIT were among the Chinese marching bands making their first appearances in Indianapolis during World Championships Week. Keeping event labels beside each number helps readers understand the accomplishment accurately without turning an International placement into a World Class rank.

Travel, preparation, and what families should confirm

DCI’s reporting on the visiting groups describes the logistics of bringing school students overseas and adapting to a U.S. football field measured in yards rather than metric units. The article identifies Lin Fu as tour manager and records the students’ preparation and adjustment to a new setting. That gives a useful glimpse of the work behind an international appearance, but it does not establish what each family paid or what costs were covered by the school, organizers, or supporters. Before a future trip or enrollment decision, families should ask the school for written details about selection, rehearsal expectations, instrument and uniform access, travel documents, airfare, lodging, meals, insurance, fundraising, and cancellation terms. None of those amounts should be inferred from the final score or from another group’s tour budget.

Public sources currently support a strong historical outline: a school-based ensemble with Chinese contest results, a long-running exchange story, and a documented 2025 DCI milestone. The gaps are practical and specific. A current band contact, selection process, full member-cost breakdown, and future DCI plans require confirmation from the school. Readers can follow the official school news and DCI’s event records while treating third-party videos and social pages according to their actual publisher.

What still needs documenting

A band-specific public contact, current selection schedule, rehearsal calendar, annual program dues, 2025 travel-cost breakdown, confirmed future DCI schedule, and school-verified official social accounts were not established in the sources reviewed. Ask the school directly for current details. The school’s listed contact numbers are general school routes, not a dedicated band line.

Sources and further reading

• DCI corps entry
• 2025 International prelims scores
• 2025 International finals scores
• 2025 Indianapolis prelims scores
• DCI report from Marion
• SoundSport ensemble registry
• 2013 Rose Parade education-commission report
• 2014 Beijing Student Arts Festival results
• Haidian District Education Commission — 2019 Jinbao and DCA Asia results
• Ministry of Education China-foreign Cultural Exchange Center — 2025 U.S. marching-music exchange
• CGTN documentary announcement and Beijing 57 reunion
• CGTN — When We March Together
• Third-party 2017 Jinfan band video
• Beijing No. 57 High School official website and contact information
• Official 2026 DCI Open Class Finals results

Current information

Selection requirements, school schedules, program costs, and band contacts can change. Use the school’s official site for current notices and DCI’s official pages for historical results. This archive focuses on the ensemble’s documented history and verified milestones.

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