Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WEST VIRGINIA
City:
GLENVILLE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
Glenville State College was founded in 1872 as a teacher training college. The Department of Music has access to some fine performing spaces. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WEST VIRGINIA
City:
HUNTINGTON
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university, part of the West Virginia University System. Founded in 1837, it gained its current name and status in the late 1960s. The music department is housed in the Smith Music Building and the Jomie Jazz Center. There is a flourishing opera school. Member of the National Assoc...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WEST VIRGINIA
City:
SHEPHERDSTOWN
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály
Notes:
This state-supported University was founded in 1871 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 2004. The music department has access to some fine performance spaces. The School of Music organises a Community Music School that offers music programs and tuition to children, yo...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WEST VIRGINIA
City:
INSTITUTE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
An historically black institution founded in 1890 as the West Virginia Colored Institute. Integrated student intake was instituted in 1954. Its current name and status gained in 2004. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WEST VIRGINIA
City:
MORGANTOWN
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university. The College of Creative Arts offers programs in art and design, music, theatre and dance. The Evansdale Library holds the Fry Archive (some 5,000 items) of recorded jazz music from the 1920s to the 1950s. There is a large collection of African instruments, as well as Ja...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
BELOIT
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1846, thus being the oldest continuously operated college in the state. The music department is located in the Hendricks Center for the Arts. The Dwight Eaton Chapel houses an Aeolian Skinner 3-manual organ and two nine-foot Steinway grand pianos. The Colleg...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
KENOSHA
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts and sciences college founded in 1847 and affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It gained its current name in 1870. The music department has access to some fine performing spaces. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
MEQUON
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy
Notes:
A liberal arts university operated by the Lutheran Church. There is a Music Therapy Equivalency Program allowing students to focus on specific courses required for music therapy certification. The degree is awarded by Alverno College in Milwaukee. There are four organs on campus. Member of the Conco...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
APPLETON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private liberal arts and sciences university founded in 1847. The Conservatory of Music was established in the same year. Facilities at the Conservatory include some fine performance spaces, a well-equipped recording/editing studio and more than 50 practice rooms. The Conservatory owns an Indonesi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
FOND DU LAC
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Church Music/Religious Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A Catholic institution founded in 1936 as a women’s college by the Congregation of Sisters of St Agnes. It became co-educational in 1970. Formerly known as Marian College, it gained its current name and status in 2008. The University is affiliated with the Catholic University of America. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
GREEN BAY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1965. On campus is the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts with several fine performance venues, a state-of-the-art technology laboratory and a recording studio. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
LA CROSSE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1909 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 1971. The university is situated on a picturesque campus on the upper Mississippi River. Music department facilities include well-equipped recording and electronic music studios. Member o...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
MADISON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1848. It is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. There is an active early music group. Facilities include a state-of-the-art Center for Music Technology. The music school maintains an instrument shop with a huge collection of more than 1...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
MILWAUKEE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Librarianship Training, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1885 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 1956. The music department is housed in the Peck School of the Arts complex which offers programs in art and design, dance, music and theatre. This complex forms part of the Helene Zelazo ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
PARKSIDE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1968. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
RIVER FALLS
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1984 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 1971. The Kleinpell Fine Arts Building houses some fine performance spaces. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
STEVENS POINT
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university established in 1894 as a teachers’ college. The music department is housed in the Noel Fine Arts Center with a number of fine performing spaces. There is an active opera club. The Aber Suzuki Center offers the only Suzuki program affiliated with a university in the Sta...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
SUPERIOR
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1893 as a teacher training college. It gained its current name and status in 1971. The music department is housed in the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center with several fine performance venues. There is a flourishing opera program. Member of the National Asso...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
MILWAUKEE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Programs for the Handicapped, Suzuki
Notes:
The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music was founded in 1899 as an independent non-profit community music school. It operates on three campuses in Milwaukee. The Conservatory does not award degrees but offers music instruction to young people and interested members of the local community, in performance ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WYOMING
City:
LARAMIE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1886. The music department is housed in the Fine Arts Building. The University's American Heritage Centre, housed in the Coe Library, holds a major collection of original big band, television and film scores and manuscripts. There is a large holding of record...
Country:
URUGUAY
State:
City:
MONTEVIDEO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
In Uruguay all 19 municipal governments support local music schools. This is the most highly developed Municipal Music School in Uruguay, founded in 1941 and training instrumental players and conductors at the professional level. All tuition is free. The School has a choir and a course of vocal tech...
Country:
URUGUAY
State:
City:
MONTEVIDEO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
The University of the Republic was founded in 1849 and is Uruguay's oldest public university. The School of Music opened in 1953 and gained its current name and status in 1986. Facilities include a well-equipped electronic music studio, an electroacoustic laboratory and the EUM library which has 180...
Country:
UZBEKISTAN
State:
City:
TASHKENT
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Conducting, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1936, the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan is the oldest musical institution in Central Asia. The Conservatory occupies a new building erected in 2002 and is organised into six faculties: academic performance, music art, musical pedagogy, Uzbek musical, pop arts, further training and retr...
Country:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Conservatorio was founded in 1975 by José Antonio Abreu for the purpose of training musicians to expand the philosophy and objectives of ‘El Sistema’ - a cultural, educational and social program that encourages young people to feel empowered through participation in ensemble music performan...
Country:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1983, this is the Venezuelan institution responsible for training teachers for primary and secondary schools. There are nine campuses spread throughout the country with the main campus being in Caracas....
Country:
VIETNAM
State:
City:
HÒ CHÍ MINH CITY (SAIGON)
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This Conservatory was founded in 1956 and was formerly known as the Saigon National School of Music. It gained its current name and status in 1981 and is considered to be of university status. Students enter in either the National music major or the Western music major. The Conservatory has a Music...
Country:
VIETNAM
State:
City:
HÀNÔI
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Formerly known as the Hànôi National Conservatory of Music, the Vietnam National Academy of Music was established in 1956, being the first and largest centre for professional music training in Vietnam. It is dedicated to the conservation of Vietnamese classical music. The conservatory is organised...
Country:
ZAMBIA
State:
City:
LUSAKA
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This conservatory-type institution offers a range of instrumental and vocal performance programs as well as dance groups and art activities with both group and individual lessons for young children and interested members of the local community. An 'Inspired by Music' program introduces a listening p...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
GWERU
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This government owned University was founded in 2000 and offers courses mainly in the commercial and arts sector. It was formerly known as Gweru Teachers' College. The main campus is in Gweru, with others in Zvishavane and Harare. The Music & Musicology Department has an archive of children’s ...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
HARARE
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Initiated in 1995 by Jeunesses Musicales International and their festivals and international tours, Music Crossroads Academy has developed into a series of non-profit centres for young musicians in southern Africa founded in 2013. It aims to enhance and develop skills and professionalism of young mu...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
HARARE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This is the oldest and largest public university in Zimbabwe, being established in 1952. After several name changes it gained its current name and status in 1980. ...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
BULAWAYO
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A private non-profit music academy established in 1949 and receiving limited government financial support. The Academy organises a classical music festival every two years, and has a parallel concert series of other types of music. There is a well-equipped School of Rock which teaches guitar, drummi...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
HARARE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The College of Music was founded in 1947 and the ethnomusicology program was inaugurated in 1989. It provides instrumental and vocal training and supporting programs in theory, aural training, traditional performance and popular music to interested members of the local community, organising Saturday...