The article deals with the essential characteristics of integration processes in the sphere of musical education of two countries - Russia and China. It is proved that the basis for the search for ways to improve this integration is the creation of a special methodological system that will combine the European musical traditions and the specific nature of Chinese pedagogy of musical education in the field of instrumental training.

The issues of music performance are regarded from the positions of their study in various fields of scientific knowledge. There is substantiated the interdisciplinary essence of music performance, its connections with interpretation. There is shown the potential of the hermeneutic approach to the category of interpretation as a qualitative characteristic of music performance.