Country:
ARGENTINA
State:
PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES
City:
BUENOS AIRES
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Institute, the principal music research institute in Argentina, was founded in 2006 and operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires. It is not a teaching institution. It carries out research into all aspects of ethnomusicology, with particular reference...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
VICTORIA
City:
MELBOURNE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Conservatorium of Music, founded in 1891, thus being the oldest in Australia, is housed in the Conservatorium building at the Parkville campus which is classified by the National Trust of Victoria. It contains a 350-seat concert hall (Melba Hall) with excellent acoustics for chamber music, and w...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
City:
PERTH
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University of Western Australia was established in 1911. The Conservatorium of Music has strong connections with the West Australian Opera and West Australian Symphony Orchestra. The Wigmore Library of the School of Music has a significant and growing collection of music by Australian composers....
Country:
CANADA
State:
ONTARIO
City:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Western University (formerly known as the University of Western Ontario), is a public institution founded in 1878. The Don Wright Faculty of Music is home to three departments - Music Education, Music Performance Studies, and Music Research and Composition. The music library has an extensive collec...
Country:
CANADA
State:
ONTARIO
City:
WATERLOO
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Suzuki
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1911. The current name and status were gained in 1973. The Faculty of Music organises and active opera program. There are two well-equipped electroacoustic music studios as well as a small collection of early keyboard instruments. Research centres associa...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
TURKU (ÅBO)
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This institution can trace its history back to 1640, but was founded in its present form in 1918. It is known as Finland’s Swedish University. It is a member of the Åbo-Turku Consortium. The Department of Musicology is both a teaching and research institute. It includes the Sibelius Museum with a...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
BERLIN
City:
BERLIN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
This independent University was founded in 1948. The Institute of Theatre Studies houses the Puccini research centre. Special projects include an edition of the letters and writings of Busoni and the role of theatrical elements on the concert podium in contemporary music. This forms part of an inter...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
SACHSEN (SAXONY)
City:
DRESDEN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Founded in 1856, this was the first education institution in Dresden to offer studies in music. The Hochschule gained its current name and status in 1959. There are departments of performance, jazz/rock/pop performance, conducting, repetiteur training, composition, musicology, contemporary music, pe...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN
City:
LÜBECK
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives
Notes:
This Academy of Music was founded in 1911 as a music conservatoire and gained its current name and status in 1973. It is the only music university-level institution in Schleswig-Holstein. The University houses the Brahms Institute with original manuscripts, letters, photographs and other memorabilia...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Founded in 1989, the Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA) is a non-profit, public interest organisation supported by the State, the European Union and private sponsors. It aims to develop and support research into all aspects of music and acoustics as well as to provide systematic in...
Country:
HUNGARY
State:
City:
KECSKEMÉT
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Kodály, Library Collections, Personal Archives
Notes:
The Kodály Institute is a Faculty of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. It is a post-graduate international training and research centre with the purpose of disseminating information about the Kodály concept of music education. There are in-service courses for Hungarian music teachers,...
Country:
HUNGARY
State:
City:
BUDAPEST
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Established by Franz Liszt in 1875 and known in English as the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, this institution has now been officially recognised as a University. It has several buildings in Budapest, including among others, the central building, the György Ligeti building, the Ferenc Liszt Memorial...
Country:
HUNGARY
State:
City:
BUDAPEST
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Musicology Institute (Zenetudomanyi Intézet) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences is not a teaching school. It is a research centre, an examining body and publisher of scholarly works. There are departments of folk music research and early music history. The Institute incorporates the Bartók A...
Country:
IRELAND
State:
City:
CORK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
University College, Cork is one of four constituent universities of the federal National University of Ireland. It was originally founded in 1845 as Queen’s College. The College specialises in the study of Irish traditional music. The library holds the Arnold Bax Collection of Memorabilia and the ...
Country:
ITALY
State:
EMILIA-ROMAGNA
City:
PARMA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives
Notes:
The Conservatorio can trace its history back to 1877. The Arturo Toscanini Studio contains a collection of his letters, photographs and art works as well as his music library. The Arrigo Boito Studio contains the letters and autographs of Boito's opera libretti. There is a collection of early instr...
Country:
ITALY
State:
EMILIA-ROMAGNA
City:
BOLOGNA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives
Notes:
The Conservatorio was founded in 1804. The library holds a collection of letters and autograph manuscripts of Verdi as well as the library of Padre Martini and first editions of works by Albeniz, Bossi, Busoni, Debussy, Grieg, Martucci and Skryabin. There is a collection of braille scores. In addit...
Country:
ITALY
State:
TUSCANY
City:
LUCCA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives
Notes:
A private music school founded in 1842. The Puccini Project aims to acquire all the sources of the musical output of Puccini who was born in Lucca. The library contains a number of early autograph manuscripts of Giacomo Puccini as well as other material related to his training and early years. Ther...
Country:
LEBANON
State:
City:
BEIRUT
Special Indexes:
Personal Archives
Notes:
This private, non-sectarian co-educational institution was founded in 1866. In 2004 the Zaki Nassif Program for Music was inaugurated at the University, being housed in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It aims to preserve and promote the musical heritage of the composer Zaki Nassif and to foster ex...
Country:
PHILIPPINES
State:
City:
QUEZON CITY
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A government University established in 1908 in Manila, but transferred to the Diliman campus in Quezon City in 1949. There are several campuses in the province. The College of Music is housed in Abelardo Hall which contains a fine auditorium. Courses include both Asian and Western music. In addition...
Country:
POLAND
State:
City:
POZNAŃ
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Museum of Musical Instruments was established in 1945 as a section of the National Museum of Poznan and was re-opened in a splendidly restored arrangement in 2019. Not a teaching institution, the Museum is the only one of its kind in Poland, and one of the few in Europe. It runs courses in organ...
Country:
RUSSIA
State:
City:
MOSCOW
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Conservatory was founded in 1866 by Nikolay Rubinstein, brother of Anton Rubinstein who founded the St Petersburg Conservatory just four years earlier in 1862. There are faculties of piano, orchestral instruments, singing, orchestral, choral and opera conducting, composition, musicology/ethnomus...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
ANDALUSIA
City:
GRANADA
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This is not a teaching body. It holds musical archival material of Andalusia, with the aim of conserving, cataloguing, classifying and disseminating musical materials pertaining to the province of Andalusia (scores, recordings, audio-visual materials and the like). Included in the collections are ma...
Country:
SPAIN
State:
PROVINCE OF MADRID
City:
MADRID
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
The private Reina Sofía School of Music was established in 1991 with a double objective: to support the development of greatly talented young musicians, and to bring music closer to society. Selection of students is merit-based, with free registration costs and a generous scholarship program coveri...
Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
GENEVA (GENÈVE)
Special Indexes:
Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Library Collections, Personal Archives
Notes:
The Institute was founded in 1915 by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. It provides specific training in Dalcroze techniques, and works in conjunction with the Haute École de Musique de Genève where some of its programs are held. The qualifications issued by the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze are: • Professiona...
Country:
TURKEY
State:
City:
ANKARA
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives
Notes:
This private university was founded in 1984. Its Faculty of Music and Performing Arts was one of the first in Turkey. The graduate school is known as the Institute of Music and Performing Arts. Facilities include a concert hall and 200 sound-proof class and practice rooms. There are also attached ki...
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:
LONDON
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Public Examinations in Music, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Royal Academy, founded in 1822, is the oldest institution for advanced music training in the United Kingdom. It is a full member of the University of London and all graduates are awarded University of London degrees. The Centre for Advanced Performance Studies is run jointly by the Royal Academy...
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:
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:
SCOTLAND
City:
EDINBURGH
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The University was founded in 1583 and the Reid School of Music was established in 1839. Individual performance lessons are not offered within the music faculty, though students are expected to find their own tutors and the university covers the cost of the lessons. This is an All-Steinway School. T...
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:
STANFORD
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university situated on one of the largest campuses in the USA. It accepted its first students in 1891. The Department of Music, founded in 1947, houses a vast archive of recorded sound with some 300,000 recordings, including over 100,000 78 r.p.m. discs and a number of wax cylinders, whil...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California and moved to its current location in Westwood in 1929. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music was created in 2007 with the union of three departments - the Department of Music, the Department of Musicology and t...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
BERKELEY
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1849. It became the University of California in 1868 and is the flagship campus and the oldest campus of the University of California system. The Hargrove Music Library holds one of the most extensive collections of books, scores and recorded materials in...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
RIVERSIDE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1907. The music department owns a Javanese gamelan. The library houses the Heinrich Schenker Archive. The Center for Iberian and Latin American Music is located in the department and publishes an online journal 'Diagonal'. Member of the University of Cal...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
LOS ANGELES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university established in 1880. The School of Music, founded in 1884, is organised into three divisions - Classical Performance and Composition, Contemporary Music, and Reseach & Scholarly Studies. It has access to a number of fine performance and rehearsal spaces. The music library ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
STOCKTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Methodist-affiliated university, founded in 1851. The Conservatory of Music, founded in 1878, is the oldest in the USA west of the Mississippi and one of the two founding institutions for the study of music therapy. The Conservatory continues a conservatory tradition with a liberal arts fr...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CONNECTICUT
City:
NEW HAVEN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Ivy League university that can trace its history back to 1701. There are three music divisions, each with a separate entry: • The Department of Music, part of Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. • The School of Music. • The Institute of Sacred Music, an interdi...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
FLORIDA
City:
JACKSONVILLE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private university founded in 1934. The College of Fine Arts consists of divisions of music, visual arts, theatre and dance. There are some fine performance spaces. On campus is the house lived in by Frederick Delius during his time in Florida, containing Delius memorabilia. The library holds an ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
ILLINOIS
City:
EVANSTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives
Notes:
A private university founded in 1850 under the patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and housing one of the oldest degree-granting music schools in the USA. There is an Institute for New Music. Facilities include six buildings, with 97 practice rooms, five computer/electronic-based studios, c...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
INDIANA
City:
INDIANAPOLIS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private university founded in 1855, being one of the ten oldest music schools in the nation. The Jordan College of the Arts offers programs in music, theatre, dance, art and arts administration. The music department is housed in Lilly Hall, and has access to a number of fine performing spaces. Fa...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MISSOURI
City:
KANSAS CITY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Suzuki
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1929, its first classes being held in 1933. The Conservatory of Music consists of divisions of performance, composition, music theory and musicology, music education/music therapy and dance. The Conservatory's Impact Centre (Intermedia/Music Production And Com...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW JERSEY
City:
WEST LONG BRANCH
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Music Theatre Performance, Personal Archives
Notes:
A private comprehensive co-educational institution founded in 1933. The music department organises its own independent, student-run record label designed to provide music and experience for the students, by giving them relevant, hands-on experience and familiarizing them with the typical workings of...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW JERSEY
City:
PRINCETON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private Ivy League university. Princeton can trace its history back to 1746. It is the fourth oldest college in British North America. The Department of Music is housed in the Woolworth Center for Musical Studies. Within the department the principal emphasis focuses on musicology and composition, ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW JERSEY
City:
LAWRENCEVILLE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Personal Archives, Sound Archives, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Westminster Choir College, founded in 1926, has since 1992 formed the School of Music of Rider University. Emphasis at the residential college is on training in choral music, both secular and sacred, with the aim of preparing its graduates for music leadership in churches, schools and the commun...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Founded in 1860 as St Stephen's College, an institution for men intending to enter the theological seminary, its name was changed to Bard College in 1934 when its focus became more aligned to classical and progressive educational traditions, with some emphasis on creative and performing arts. Women ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
FLUSHING
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Suzuki, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The City University of New York (CUNY) was founded in 1961. It consists of 20 Colleges at which music is offered in eleven. Queens College, itself founded in 1937, became part of the City University of New York in 1961. The School of Music has access to several fine performance spaces, including tho...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
ROCHESTER
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921. Ensembles include three symphony orchestras, three choral groups, seven jazz ensembles, two wind ensembles, a student-run contemporary music ensemble (’Ossia’), Musica Nova (a contemporary ensemble), Collegium Musicum (early music), trombone choir...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
ITHACA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives, Sound Engineering, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private college founded in 1892 as a music conservatory. Since that time the college has developed into a comprehensive institution comprising Schools of Business, Communications, Health Sciences and Human Performance, Humanities and Sciences as well as the School of Music which is housed in the J...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PHILADELPHIA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private Ivy League university that can trace its history back to 1740. Areas of concentration in the music department are the history of music, music theory, anthropology of music and music as a liberal art. Studies in performance are not provided on campus; students wishing to take this option mu...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PITTSBURGH
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Personal Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A state-supported university founded in 1787. The music department forms part of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Interdisciplinary study is encouraged in the graduate programs. The library holds the Theodore Finney Music Library, the Carnegie Music Library, collections of early American h...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
UTAH
City:
SALT LAKE CITY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Personal Archives
Notes:
A state-supported university. The music school is housed in the David P Gardner Hall. Facilities include a new 700-seat concert hall and several other fine performance spaces and rehearsal rooms. The McKay Music Library houses the Maurice Abravanel Studio with scores and memorabilia of the conducto...
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...