Country:
ARGENTINA
State:
CITY OF BUENOS AIRES
City:
BUENOS AIRES
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
The Institute was founded in 1960. It operates from the Teatro Colón (founded in 1908) and occupies premises at the opera house itself. It's main aim is to train specialists in various aspects of music and dance for opera and ballet. The library houses special collections of past programs, opera li...
Country:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
KLAGENFURT
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The conservatorium was founded in 1828. It has close links with Alpen Adria University and the Carinthian Opera. The Conservatorium runs an active opera program, a preparatory program for talented children and a Lifelong Learning project for members of the local community. There is a well-equipped r...
Country:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
VIENNA (WIEN)
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
This private institution, formerly known as the 'Vienna Conservatory' gained its current name and status in 2005. The University has 17 affiliated music schools and operates a ‘Kindersingschule’. There are two Faculties: • Faculty of Music, comprising departments of instrumental performance, ...
Country:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
VIENNA (WIEN)
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Originally founded in 1817 and formerly known as the ‘Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst’, the University currently enrols around 3,500 students from around the world, with almost 800 internationally renowned teachers. Ir offers courses in music, music education, theatre, film and tele...
Country:
BELGIUM
State:
FLANDERS
City:
ANTWERP
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Suzuki
Notes:
This institution forms part of the Artesis Plantijn University College which originated from a merger between Artesis University College and Plantijn University College. Founded in 1898 as the Royal Flemish Conservatoire by Peter Benoit, it was the first Dutch-language institute for art education in...
Country:
CHINA
State:
SHANGHAI DISTRICT
City:
SHANGHAI
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Conservatory, established in 1927, is the oldest higher institute of music education in China, with an illustrious group of presidents since its foundation. It operates under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture. Over its history the Conservatory has formed a comprehensive system of teach...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
HELSINKI (HELSINFORS)
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences was established in 1996 with the merger of eight institutions maintained by the City of Helsinki. In 2000 it took over the responsibility of professional music education from the Helsinki Conservatory of Music. Facilities include a fine suite o...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
HELSINKI (HELSINFORS)
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
In 2013 the Finnish Sibelius Academy, the Theatre Academy Helsinki and the Academy of Fine Arts merged to become the University of the Arts Helsinki. The Sibelius Academy received its name in 1939. It is the only university-level music institution in Finland and one of the largest in Europe. In addi...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
BAYERN (BAVARIA)
City:
NÜRNBERG
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
In 1999 the Leopold Mozart Konservatorium in Augsburg and the Meistersinger Konservatorium in Nürnberg were officially joined to become the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg-Augsburg – the youngest Hochschule in Germany. The seat of administration is in Nürnberg. At the Nürnberg campus there is a...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
BAYERN (BAVARIA)
City:
WÜRZBURG
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This music university can trace its history back to 1797. It was granted its current name and status in 1973. Facilities include a well-equipped digital production studio and computer music studio. The University organises music tuition for gifted school-age students who may wish to prepare for ent...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
BERLIN
City:
BERLIN
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Formerly known as the Hans Eisler Academy of Music, the Hochschule was established in 1950 to provide music training for students living in the eastern sector of the city. There are four departments: • Voice, opera, music theatre conducting. The opera program organises regular opera and music the...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
HAMBURG
City:
HAMBURG
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This University was founded in 1950. There are four main departments: • Department I - performance programs (classical, jazz/popular), composition, theory, choral and orchestral conducting, Protestant church music. • Department II - Theatre Academy, with studies in vocal music, opera, music thea...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
HESSEN
City:
FRANKFURT AM MAIN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
This University can trace its history back to 1878. It assumed various names (’Dr Hoch’s Conservatoire’ and ‘National University for Music’), before enjoying its current name and status. There are divisions of music, drama and dance. The Hochschule offers an opera program as well as a prog...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN
City:
ROSTOCK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
This University was originally founded in 1946 and was established under its present title in 1994. It currently enrols around 500 students in its departments of music and drama. The music department consists of an Institut für Musik and an Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik. Ther...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
NIEDERSACHSEN (LOWER SAXONY)
City:
HANNOVER
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
This University was formed in 1950 with the merger of the State School of Music and the Hanover Drama School. It gained its current name and status in 1978. It offers programs in music, drama, multimedia communication and media sciences. A joint bachelor’s degree program in music is offered betwee...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN
City:
KÖLN (COLOGNE)
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Hochschule, founded in 1850, gained its current name and status in 1987. The Hochschule is situated in the heart of the old city of Cologne, in the vicinity of the cathedral and the main railway station. It is one of the largest music academies in Europe, with about 1700 students and more than 3...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
RHEINLAND-PFALZ
City:
MAINZ
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University was founded in 1477, and as such, is one of the oldest universities in Germany. There is a small collection of Thai instruments and a number of recordings of tribal music of the region. There is co-operation with the Peter Cornelius Conservatorium in Mainz and a number of other instit...
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, ped...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
SACHSEN (SAXONY)
City:
LEIPZIG
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
Established in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, this was the first conservatorium to be founded in Germany. Some of the world’s most noted musicians and educators have been associated with the Hochschule, including George Szell, Kurt Masur, Hermann Levi, Charles Münch, Wilhelm Backhaus, Arthu...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
THÜRINGEN (THURINGIA)
City:
WEIMAR
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The School was founded in 1872 as an orchestra school. It gained its current name and status in 1956. There are four centres within walking distance of each other, one of them being the Altenburg, Liszt's home between 1848 and 1861. The School holds and archive of the music of Thuringia. An Institut...
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:
IRELAND
State:
City:
CORK
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Cork School of Music was founded in 1878 and has been a constituent school of Cork’s Institute of Technology (CIT) since 1993. A new purpose-built home for the Cork School of Music opened in September 2007, and houses the 300-seat Curtis Auditorium. Other facilities include several fine perfor...
Country:
ITALY
State:
LAZIO
City:
ROME
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
The Academy offers programs in music, film, theatre and dance in collaboration with the Università deli Studi Link Campus University and the Istituto Statale Superiore de Studi Musicali e Coreutici 'Gaetano Braga' in Teramo. There are also programs for young children. An associate member of the Ass...
Country:
SWEDEN
State:
City:
STOCKHOLM
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Early Music Performance, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This Royal College of Music, founded in 1771, is an independent college, financed both by private funds and the state. It is housed at the University of Stockholm. The College offers in-service training courses for professional musicians and music teachers, some by distance-mode. The Nordic Perform...
Country:
SWEDEN
State:
City:
STOCKHOLM
Special Indexes:
Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
In 1772, when the Royal Opera was inaugurated, operatic education was provided, and has continued since that time. In 2014 the School of Dance and Circus, the University College of Opera and the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts merged and founded a new university, the Stockholm University of the A...
Country:
UNITED KINGDOM
State:
WALES
City:
CARDIFF
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru) was established as Wales’ national conservatoire for the performing arts in 1949 and gained its current name and status in 2002. It is set in Cardiff’s Castle grounds which are adjacent to the University, close to t...
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:
OHIO
City:
CINCINNATI
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
This school is unique in that it is historically a traditional European Conservatory attached to a Comprehensive/Research State University. It can trace its history back to 1867. It is a ‘campus village’ comprising the Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center, Memor...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PHILADELPHIA
Special Indexes:
Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching
Notes:
An independent academy, founded in 1933, specialising in the training of talented singers. Its mission is to train singers for a professional career rather than to earn a degree or a teaching qualification. The Academy enrols women aged 18 - 28 and men aged 20 – 30 and no more than 30 students are...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
PENNSYLVANIA
City:
PHILADELPHIA
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
An independent state-affiliated university founded in 1884. The Boyer college of Music and Dance forms part of the Center for the Arts. The New School Institute is the instrumental ensemble branch of the Esther Boyer College of Music and operates as the Department of Instrumental Ensemble and Orches...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
TEXAS
City:
FORT WORTH
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Suzuki
Notes:
A private university founded in 1873. The School of Music is housed in the Ed Landreth Hall and the Mary D and F Howard Walsh Center for Performing Arts, with a number of fine performance spaces. Facilities include four pipe organs, two harpsichords, a clavichord and a collection of baroque and rena...