Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VIRGINIA
City:
RADFORD
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Music Therapy
Notes:
A state university founded in 1910 as a teacher training college for women. It became co-educational in 1972 and gained its current name and status in 1979. The music department forms part of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and is located in the Silverman Fine Arts Center with access to so...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VIRGINIA
City:
WINCHESTER
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering
Notes:
An interdisciplinary conservatory for music, theatre and dance located within a small private co-educational university, founded in 1875 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Facilities include a state-of-the-art recording studio and music technology labs. Four fully-produced musical thea...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VIRGINIA
City:
NORFOLK
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private liberal arts university chartered in 1961 and supported by the United Methodist Church. Formerly known as Virginia Wesleyan College, it gained its current name and status in 2017. There is a Center for Sacred Music. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VIRGINIA
City:
LEXINGTON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting
Notes:
A private liberal arts institution founded in 1749, being the ninth oldest institution of higher learning in USA. It gained its current name and status in 1870. There is a Conducting Mentorship Program that enables aspiring conductors to take the podium for student instrumental groups. Facilities in...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
ELLENSBURG
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university. The Department of Music is housed in the Jerilyn S. McIntyre Music Building with access to some fine performing spaces. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
KIRKLAND
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Founded in 1934 by the Northwest Ministry Network of the Assemblies of God, this institution gained its current name and status in 2005. The music department is housed in the Dorothy Amundsen Music Center. The music program is designed to train church musicians, choir directors and ministers of musi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
SEATTLE
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1861. The School of Music has access to several fine performing spaces. There is a Center for Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (covering visual art, literary arts, music). The Ethnomusicology Archives holds a vast collection of field re...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
PULLMAN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1890 as the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. It gained its current name and status in 1959. The music school is housed in the Kimbrough Music Building which includes state-of-the-art recording studios and computer-assisted composition and...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON
City:
BELLINGHAM
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1893 as a teachers’ college. It gained its current name and status in 1977. The College of Fine and Performing Arts offers programs in art, design, music, theatre and dance. There is a thriving opera program and a program of wellness for musicians. The musi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
City:
WASHINGTON D.C.
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting
Notes:
A private Catholic university founded in 1887. The Benjamin T Rome School of Music is housed in Ward Hall, with access to some fine performance spaces. The School sees its main strengths as in performance, music history and liturgical music. Many graduate programs may be taken with Latin-American co...
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:
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:
RIPON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections
Notes:
Ripon College is a private liberal arts and sciences institution founded in 1851. The music department is housed in the Rodman Center for the Arts. The department has a keyboard instrument collection, which includes two Hornung-Muller grand pianos, a Bedient tracker organ in the 17th century North ...
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:
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:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music
Notes:
This State institute, founded in 1951, trains students to be secondary school teachers in all subjects....
Country:
URUGUAY
State:
City:
SALTO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting
Notes:
This is the School of Music of the Salto North Coast Regional University Center of the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. It was opened in the late 1990s in an effort to promote regional autonomy and to train teachers in the northern part of the country. Tuition is free....
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:
VATICAN
State:
City:
VATICAN CITY
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music
Notes:
While not within the boundaries of the Vatican, the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music is directly connected to the worship of the Catholic Church from its headquarters in the Vatican. The Institute was founded in 1911 by Pope Pius X. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and is part of ...
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:
MÉRIDA
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Music Therapy, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This University can trace its history back to 1785. Of Catholic heritage, it is now a secular institution. Facilites in the School of Music include well-equipped laboratories of music technology and electronic music. There is a junior music school offering music tuition to children from age 7 and t...
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:
VENEZUELA
State:
City:
CARACAS
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Master's degree in music was established in 1996. there is a digital music laboratory that conducts research in contemporary composition, electroacoustic composition, sound synthesis and experimental sound sources for music creation....
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:
VIRGIN ISLANDS (USA)
State:
City:
ST THOMAS
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A four-year historically black liberal arts university founded in 1962 and which gained its current name and status in 1986. There are campuses on the islands of St Thomas and St Croix. Facilities include the Reichhold Center for the Arts at the Orville E. Kean campus. The music department owns a se...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
MUTARE
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A United Methodist Church-related institution established in 1992, the first private international university in Zimbabwe. As the name implies, Africa University is a Pan-African university whose student body and staff come from a variety of African countries and other continents. As such it is a un...