Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
GENEVA (GENÈVE)
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This not-for-profit institution was founded in 1983 and has no affiliations with any university or conservatorium. It aims to promote the diversity of musical cultures by holding courses of music and dance from countries throughout the world and acts as a clearing house for information of other simi...
Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
GENÈVE - NEUCHÂTEL
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
The Geneva-Neuchâtel Higher School of Music (HEM), founded in 1835, forms part of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland which itself was founded in 1998 with the merger of a number of higher-level institutions in various areas of training. This HEM is the oldest institution of m...
Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
BASEL
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Founded in 1460, this is Switzerland's oldest university. The musicology department co-operates closely with the institutes at the FNHW Academy of Music in Basel (the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Jazz and the Academy of Music Klassik). Language of instruction is German. ...
Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
BERN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music
Notes:
The University of Berne can trace its history back to 1528. The Institute specialises in the history of European music theatre. Language of instruction is German. ...
Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
GENEVA (GENÈVE)
Special Indexes:
Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Ethnomusicology/World Music
Notes:
The University of Geneva was established in 1559 by John Calvin. Students in the department may take courses at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva to replace some courses offered at the University. ...
Country:
SYRIA
State:
City:
ALEPPO
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Institute, which operated under the Ministry of Culture, was founded in 1955. There were departments of Eastern and Western music. Due to the current situation in Syria, there is no information on whether the program is still in operation or even whether the institution is still in existence. ...
Country:
SYRIA
State:
City:
DAMASCUS
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Opera Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The High Institute of Music was founded in 1990 by the Iraqi-born composer Solhi al-Wadi. It aims to “promote music in Syria by preparing a generation of music graduates who are able to carry the message of Arab and international music and work to enrich and develop it through preparing specialist...
Country:
TAIWAN
State:
City:
TAIPEI
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Opera Performance, Suzuki, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This private university was founded in 1962. The College of Arts consists of the Departments of Fine Arts, Chinese Music, Western Music, Chinese Drama, Theatre Arts and Dance. There is an extensive and impressive collection of Asian instruments which is being continually expanded and includes instru...
Country:
TAIWAN
State:
City:
TAIPEI
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
A Catholic university founded originally in Beijing in 1925, and re-established in Taiwan in 1961. The music department, established in 1983, forms part of the College of Fine Arts which includes music, applied arts and architecture. The Master’s program was established in 1995. Facilities includ...
Country:
TAIWAN
State:
City:
HUALIEN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1994 and gained its current name and status in 2005. In 2008 the music education department of the former National Hualien University of Education was integrated into the National Dong Hwa University as its Department of Music. ...
Country:
TAIWAN
State:
City:
TAIPEI
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Formerly known as the Taiwan Provincial Taipei Teachers’ College and founded in 1896, this is the oldest academic institution in Taiwan. It gained its current name and status in 2005. The University trains teachers for elementary schools and kindergartens. ...
Country:
TAIWAN
State:
City:
TAIPEI
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music
Notes:
The University can trace its history back ro 1928. It gained its current name and status in 1945 and is considered by some to be the most prestigious university in Taiwan. The Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University was founded in 1996. It is one of the twelve teaching units i...
Country:
TAIWAN
State:
City:
TAINAN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1996 as the Tainan National College of the Arts, this institution gained its current name and status in 2004. There are colleges of visual arts, performing arts, sound and image arts and letters and cultural heritage. The College of Music includes the departments of music, Chinese music a...
Country:
TAJIKISTAN
State:
City:
DUSHANBE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Shashmaqam is the title given to the sophisticated, refined classical instrumental music that flourished in the great cities of Central Asia over many centuries. It has its roots in Samarkand and Bukhara where the musicians and the public comprised Tajiks, Uzbeks and the Jews of Central Asia. The Ac...
Country:
TAJIKISTAN
State:
City:
KHOROG
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of Central Asia was founded in 2000 at the initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan by the governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It is a secular, private not-for-profit university governed by an independent Board of Trustees, with three campuses of equal size and statur...
Country:
TANZANIA
State:
City:
DAR ES SALAAM
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This University, the oldest and largest in Tanzania, was founded in its current form in 1970. It is a UNESCO-aided institution. The Department of Fine and Performing Arts, established in its current form in 1996, has areas of music, fine arts, film and theatre arts. The music library holds an archiv...
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
BANGSAEN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This institution was formerly a branch campus of Srinakharinwirot University. It became an autonomous university in 1990. The Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts offers programs in visual arts, music, theatre, dance, design and graphic arts. The University's Siam Ruby Project offers special places in i...
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
BANGKOK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Music Therapy, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Chulalongkorn University was established in 1917, making it the oldest university in Thailand. The Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts comprises departments of music, dance, visual arts and creative arts. The department of music was established in 1983 and since 2012 a Center of Excellence for Thai Mus...
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
KHON KAEN
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This non-profit University was founded in 1964. There is a strong community outreach program and research programs into music of minority groups and music and medicine. The Faculty offers programs in printing, sculpture, visual communication and design as well as programs in Thai music, Western musi...
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
MAHA SARAKHAM
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was established in 1968 as a college of education and gained its current name and status in 1994. There is an attached secondary school for students wishing to specialise in music....
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
NAKHON PATHOM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University was originally founded in 1889 as a medical school. Currently there are 14 faculties, six colleges, eight institutes and six centres all situated at three different localities in the greater Bangkok area. The College of Music was established in 1994 and was the first music conservator...
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
CHIANG MAI
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts university founded in 1974 by the Church of Christ in Thailand. The Christian Communication Institute is a centre for dance, drama, music and Christian outreach. The university also has a Centre for Arts and Culture, aiming to study and preserve traditional North Thailand (Lan...
Country:
THAILAND
State:
City:
BANGKOK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This government-sponsored university was established in 1949 as the Higher Teacher Training School at Prasarnmit. It gained its current name, address and status in 1974. The Faculty of Fine Arts was established in 1993 and offers programs in music, music education dance, design, visual arts and perf...
Country:
TOKELAU
State:
City:
ATAFU
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of the South Pacific was established in 1968. It is jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Samoa, with campuses in each country. Music study forms an...
Country:
TONGA
State:
City:
NUKU’ALOFA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of the South Pacific was established in 1968. It is jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Samoa, with campuses in each country. Music study forms an...
Country:
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
State:
City:
PORT OF SPAIN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Public Examinations in Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of the West Indies (UWI) was founded in 1948 as a college of the University of London. It was granted full university status in 1962, and operates in 16 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean. The UWI campus in Mona, Jamaica is the headquarters of the system, and ...
Country:
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
State:
City:
PORT OF SPAIN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was established in 2004 and operates at 12 campuses. The Academy for the Performing Arts (APA) is a multidisciplinary arts school that forms a basic element of the National Academy of the Performing Arts (NAPA). It offers programs in acting, dance, music, theatre design and production...
Country:
TUNISIA
State:
City:
SFAX
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1986 and the Higher Institute dates from 1999. ...
Country:
TUNISIA
State:
City:
SOUSSE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was created in its current form in 2004. ...
Country:
TUNISIA
State:
City:
TUNIS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of Tunis was founded in 1988. The Higher Institute of Music was established in 1982 and has been incorporated into the university structure. It aims to provide programs in music and musicology at the professional level. Current research involves culture, new technologies and developme...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ERZURUM
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1957. The Department of Music Sciences offers programs in Turkish classical music, Turkish folk music and music education. In the Faculty of Education there is a program in methodology for teaching fine arts, including music. Language of instruction is Turkish. ...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
IZMIR
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1982. The Faculty of Fine Arts consists of ten departments - musicology, ceramics and glass design, film design, graphics, painting, performing arts (theatre), photography, sculpture, textile and fashion design, and traditional Turkish arts. Music facilities include pro...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
IZMIR
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Ege University was founded in 1955, and the State Conservatory was established in 1983. The Conservatory has four departments: 1) Turkish Art Music and Folk Music, 2) Voice Education, with studies in both Turkish and Western solfège and theory, folklore and style, 3) Turkish folk dance, and 4) Inst...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
KAYSERI
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was established in 1978, the Faculty of Fine Arts being established in 1993. It has departments of painting, sculpture, music, ceramics, graphic design, stage design and performing arts. The Department of Music commenced operation in 1995 with programs in Turkish classical music and t...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ANKARA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was established in 1926 as the ‘Teacher Training Institute’ and its Music School was established in 1936 under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In 1938, two years later, the Music School was divided into two. Part remained at Gazi University, becoming its Depar...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
GAZIANTEP
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This State University was first established in 1974 as an Engineering Department. It gained its current name and status in 1987. The State Conservatory of Turkish Music was founded in 1987 and has departments of music fundamentals, voice education and Turkish folk dance....
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ANKARA
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1958 and gained its current name and status in 1967. The Conservatory is the first of its kind in Turkey, being established in 1936 and becoming affiliated with the university in 1982. Its Western music education program was organised in collaboration wit...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
MALATYA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This public University was founded in 1975. The Faculty of Fine Arts and Design comprises departments of music, painting, ceramics, landscape architecture, traditional Turkish handicrafts, theatre, interior architecture, graphic design, and sculpture. Language of instruction is Turkish. The music de...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ISTANBUL
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Istanbul Technical University can trace its history back to 1773. The Turkish Music State Conservatory was established in 1976. It has departments of Turkish music performance, composition, musicology, theory, music technology and Turkish folk dance. Apart from the professional program the music sch...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ISTANBUL
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1453, the Istanbul University gained its current name and status in 1924. The Conservatory was established in 1914 and was the first in Turkey. It was later expanded to include departments of theatre and ballet as well as music and opera, gaining its current name in 1986. There is a well-...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ISTANBUL
Special Indexes:
Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University was founded in 1883, and the State Conservatory of Music (established in 1970) was incorporated into its structure in 1982. There are departments of music (performance, composition, conducting), musicology (including ethnomusicology, folklore), and performing art...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
IZMIR
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
This private university was founded in 1999, and the Department of Music was established in 2008. Facilities include state-of-the-art music technology and recording studios. Language of instruction is English. An active member of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique ...
Country:
TURKMENISTAN
State:
City:
ASHGABAT
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
An Arts College for Musicians and Artists was opened in Ashkabad in 1935. The present Conservatory was established in 1993 and operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. There are four departments: Instrumental Performance, Vocal Arts, Conducting, and Theory/Composition and Musico...
Country:
TUVALU
State:
City:
FUNAFUTI
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of the South Pacific was established in 1968. It is jointly owned by the governments of twelve island countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Samoa, with campuses in each country. Music study forms an...
Country:
UGANDA
State:
City:
KAMPALA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This University was established in 2005 from the amalgamation of several earlier institutions. There are departments of music, dance and drama. Formerly known as the Institute of Teacher Education, the University initially had the role of producing secondary school teachers. The teacher training act...
Country:
UGANDA
State:
City:
KAMPALA
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1922 as a technical school and formerly known as the University of East Africa, it is the second-oldest and largest university in Uganda, being granted its current name and status in 1970. The Department of Performing Arts (music, dance, drama and film) was established in 1971. The underg...
Country:
UKRAINE
State:
City:
LVIV
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This institution is one of the oldest in the Ukraine, being able to trace its origins back to 1796. It was granted its current name and status in 2007, its informal name being ‘Lviv Conservatory’. There are departments of singing, piano, orchestra, conducting, musicology, ethnomusicology and com...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
CAMBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Programs for the Handicapped, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Anglia Ruskin University was founded in 1958 and gained its current name and status in 1992. There are campuses in Chelmsford, Cambridge and Peterborough. Applications from mature, disabled and overseas students are particularly encouraged. The Department has a working collection of ethnic instrumen...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
BATH
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The School of Music and Performing Arts is based at the Michael Tippett Centre which incorporates a state-of-the-art recording and electro-acoustic sound studio and a fine concert hall. The College welcomes applications from non-traditionally-trained students. There is a large collection of medieva...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The original Bhavan (‘Home of Indian Arts’) was founded in Mumbai, India in 1938 and has since spread widely. The English branch was established in 1972, and like its Indian home institution, is a secular non-political, non-commercial and non-profit-making institute specialising in the promotion...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
BIRMINGHAM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Birmingham Conservatoire can trace its history back to 1843. It became the music department of Birmingham City University in 1989 and later became the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. There are departments of performance, composition, early music, jazz, vocal and operatic performance, orchestral ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LINCOLN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
The Anglican Bishop Grosseteste College, founded in 1862, was awarded University College status in 2006 and granted full university status in 2012. Lincoln Cathedral organ and choral scholarships are available to music students. ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
City, University of London was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute. It gained its current name and status in 1966 and has been a constituent college of the University of London since 2016. Facilities include well-equipped sound recording and electroacoustic music studios, an early music ro...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
DURHAM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The university was founded in 1832 and the first music examinations took place at Durham in 1890. This is a collegiate university - the colleges are not teaching bodies, nor are they purely residential. Typically they provide a centre for students’ sporting, social and residential activities, and ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
PENRYN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
In 2008 Dartington College of Arts, founded in 1961, merged with University College Falmouth and the resulting institution has been granted full university status. Students have access to a new purpose-built Performance Centre with fine performing spaces and state-of-the-art electronic and recording...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. Goldsmiths College, founded in 1891, is one of the largest music departments in Britain. A central focus is the study of contemporary musical culture from jazz to 'new complexity...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. King's College can trace its history back to 1828, and when the University of London was founded in 1836 King's became one of its two founding colleges. The music department at K...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1834. It gained its current name and status in 1963. There is an International Centre for Music Studies which engages in research into such areas as cultural and critical musicology, creative practice, traditional, popular and world music and music analys...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. Royal Holloway, founded in 1879, was admitted to the University of London in 1900. It offers students in year 2 the opportunity to spend all or part of the year in a European uni...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
MILTON KEYNES
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music
Notes:
The Open University offers part-time undergraduate and post-graduate university education to home-based students, using distance teaching methods (print, audio-visual media), together with some regionally organized face-to-face tuition and summer schools. The undergraduate degree is modular, with st...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
BIRMINGHAM
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Sir Edward Elgar was appointed the university’s first professor of music in 1905. The university has a department of drama and theatre arts, enabling music students to take courses in drama and to participate in opera and music theatre. Performance tuition is normally taken at the Birmingham Conse...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
CAMBRIDGE
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Founded in 1209 this is one of the oldest and most famous university music departments in the world. It is a Collegiate university comprising 31 colleges where students live, eat and socialise and where students receive small group teaching sessions. Each college is an independent institution with i...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LEEDS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University of Leeds can trace its history back to 1874. It merged with University College Bretton Hall in 2001 and music studies have now been transferred to the Leeds campus. A new performance centre was opened in 2004. The Brotherton Library includes manuscripts and correspondence of Mendelsso...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of London is a federation of some forty colleges and institutes, not all of which offer programs in music. The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) was founded in 1916. No aspects of Western music are studied. All courses relate to the traditional art or folk musics of Asia a...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
MANCHESTER
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University of Manchester can trace its history back to 1824. It was formed in 2004 with the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester. Music programs are taken at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama which houses ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
OXFORD
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections
Notes:
This is the oldest university in the English-speaking world, with nine centuries of continuous existence since 1096. Oxford University is a collegiate university, with 39 self-governing colleges related to the University in a type of federal system. The Faculty of Music houses the Bate Collection o...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
EXMOUTH
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1862. The Department of Music has cultural connections with the music of Bali and Gambia. It owns a Balinese gamelan. There is an Inter-disciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research as well as a Centre for Humanities, Music and Performing Arts Research....
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
SHEFFIELD
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University of Sheffield can trace its history back to 1828 and gained its current name and status in 1905. The music department is housed in Hadow House. It is the administrative centre for the Society for Research in the Psychology of Music and Music Education and houses the Centre for Research...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
SOUTHAMPTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance
Notes:
The University of Southampton can trace its history back to 1862. The music department has a collection of historical and modern keyboard instruments, early stringed and wind instruments, modern orchestral instruments and a wide range of percussion instruments. Facilities include a purpose-built con...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
ENGLAND
City:
YORK
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in the early 1960s. It participates in the ERASMUS scheme in which students may spend part of their time at a partner European university, counting the study abroad as part of the degree at York. The Music Department is centred on the Lyons Concert Hall and runs an acclaim...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
NORTHERN IRELAND
City:
BELFAST
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Queen's University was founded by Queen Victoria in 1845 and was designed as a non-denominational alternative to Trinity College Dublin which was controlled by the Anglican Church. The School of Music has particular strengths in renaissance music, composition, electro-acoustic music, computer applic...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
NORTHERN IRELAND
City:
LONDONDERRY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1865. Its music department was established in 1972 and is housed in Dalriada House in attractive grounds on the shore of Belfast Lough. Facilities include a three-manual organ, practice rooms, state-of-the-art electronic and computing studios, and the He...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
SCOTLAND
City:
EDINBURGH
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1964. It was named Napier University in 1992 and in 2009 was re-launched as Edinburgh Napier University. The Ian Tomlin School of Music has state-of-the-art recording studios and fully networked MIDI suites. The Edinburgh Quartet is resident at the School...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
SCOTLAND
City:
ABERDEEN
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university was founded in 1495. There are state-of-the-art facilities for electroacoustic music, a world music centre, a theatre/concert hall, keyboard laboratory and a range of practice facilities. The Centre for Music Therapy houses many percussion instruments, and is used as a teaching base ...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
WALES
City:
CARDIFF
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1883. The Department of Music is active in the fields of publishing and concert presentation. The Library at the University of Wales in Cardiff houses the Welsh Music Information Centre, concerned with the promotion and dissemination of Welsh music. There are two resear...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
WALES
City:
BANGOR
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University of Wales in Bangor can trace its history back to 1885. The activities of the School of Music cover the areas of performance, composition, technology, media and popular culture, and history, culture and society. Facilities include four state-of-the-art electronic composition studios, t...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ALABAMA
City:
TROY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Founded in 1887 as the State Normal School, Troy, this institution gained its current name and status in 1967. The John M Long School of Music forms part of the College of Communication and Fine Arts. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ALABAMA
City:
MONTEVALLO
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Kodály, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university, originally founded in 1896 as the Alabama Girls’ Industrial School. It became co-educational in 1956 and gained its current name and status in 1969. The Department of Music is an All-Steinway School. The music department organises a community School of Music offering...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ALASKA
City:
ANCHORAGE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance
Notes:
The Arts facility of the University houses the departments of art, music, theatre and dance. There is an acoustically excellent 220-seat recital hall. The Department of Music has a close connection with Anchorage Opera allowing some vocal students to undertake apprenticeships in opera productions. T...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ALASKA
City:
FAIRBANKS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Opera Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university, enrolled its first students in 1922 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. It gained its current name and status in 1935 and is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. The music library houses the Fairbanks Symphony Association Orchestr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ARIZONA
City:
TEMPE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A state-supported university established in 1885 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 1958. Facilities include several fine performance spaces, several electronic music research studios, the Ravenscroft Jazz Suite and music education and therapy laboratories. There is ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ARIZONA
City:
FLAGSTAFF
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1899 as Northern Arizona Normal School. It gained its current name and status in 1966. The School of Music houses a number of fine performing spaces and operates a flourishing opera program. A preparatory school offers private music lessons as well as Suzuki v...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ARIZONA
City:
TUCSON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
A state-supported university established in 1885. There is much emphasis on the use of digital arts technology for the creation of artistic works. Facilities include well-equipped electro-acoustic music and recording studios. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
VALENCIA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This private institute was founded in 1961 by Walt and Roy Disney through the merger of two existing professional schools, the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Chouinard Art Institute. There are schools of art, dance, film/video, music, theatre, and critical studies enabling students to com...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
CHICO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1887 and gained its current and status in 1972. The music department is located in the Performing Arts Center, with a number of fine performance spaces as well as music technology labs, recording and electronic music studios. Member of the California State University sy...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
HAYWARD
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This institution was formerly known as California State University, Hayward. Facilities include state-of-the-art music technology laboratories and a recording studio. The library holds an extensive collection of chamber music scores. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Personal Archives
Notes:
The University was founded in 1947. The College of Arts and Letters offers programs in art, communication studies, languages, liberal studies, philosophy, music, theatre and dance, and television, film & media studies. Facilities include the Luckman Fine Arts Complex with fine performing spaces...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
SACRAMENTO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
The University was established in 1947 and gained its current name and status in 1972. It is sometimes known as ‘Sacramento State’, or ‘Sac State’. The music department organises an annual summer conducting workshop as well as a string project of violin and cello performance for young peopl...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
SAN MARCOS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This University was founded in 1989. The Department of Visual and Performing Arts offers programs in arts and technology, music, theatre, visual arts and education. There is encouragement for students to collaborate with those in other tracks of the program. The Department houses a Javanese gamelan...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
IRVINE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A private Lutheran (Missouri Synod) university, a member of the Concordia University System, founded in 1976. The University owns two sets of handbells (one Schulmerich five-octave, the other Malmark three-octave), a three-octave set of Malmark handchimes, three pipe organs and two electronic organ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Catholic liberal arts university administered by the Jesuit order. It can trace its history back to 1865, and gained its current name and status in 1973. The College of Communications and Fine Arts offers programs in communication studies, theatre, dance, music, studio arts, art history an...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
OAKLAND
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts college for women founded in 1852. In 1871 it was granted the name Mills College in 1865 and in 2022 it joined forces with the Boston-based Northeastern University to become the Mills Institute at Northeastern University, Oakland. It becomes co-educational at the graduate leve...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private liberal arts college founded in 1887. Participation in music activities is available to students in departments other than music. There is an active musical theatre program. Occidental College has a combined study plan with the California Institute of Technology, sharing courses in music h...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
ANGWIN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music
Notes:
A private liberal arts college of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It can trace its history back to 1882, and gained its current name and status in 1906. The College moved to its current site in 1909. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
CLAREMONT
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A private college established in 1887. Pomona College is a member of the Claremont Colleges Consortium which also includes Scripps College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences and the Graduate School of Claremont University...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
SAN DIEGO
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1897. Facilities include the 300-seat Dayton Smith recital hall, a state-of-the-art electronic music studio, 160 pianos, three harpsichords and 800 other instruments, many of ethnic origin. There is an active opera program. The University hosts a Community Music School ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
SAN FRANCISCO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1899. The School of Music houses a Balinese gamelan, while the library holds the Frank V. deBellis Collection of Italian materials (history, literature, fine arts, music), including rare books, scores, manuscripts, archival sound recordings. Member of the California S...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
SANTA CLARA
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A private Catholic university founded in 1851 and run by the Jesuit order. The Center of Performing Arts produces a regular series of concerts. There are several fine performing spaces. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
CLAREMONT
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only
Notes:
A private, liberal arts college for women, founded in 1926. Member of the Claremont Colleges consortium which includes Pomona College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences and the University of Claremont Graduate School, mos...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
MORAGA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A Catholic college in the LaSallian tradition, founded in 1863, and directed by the De La Salle Brothers. The Department of Performing Arts has programs in dance, music and theatre. ...