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:
ARGENTINA
State:
PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES
City:
BERNAL
Special Indexes:
Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This national university was founded in 1989. It is located in the southern Buenos Aires metropolitan area, in Bernal City, Quilmes. In addition to its undergraduate programs the university offers several post-graduate courses each year relating to such areas as synthesizing and processing sound, pr...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
QUEENSLAND
City:
BRISBANE
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University of Queensland was founded in 1909. The School of Music owns a collection of early instruments and a small number of non-Western instruments. It houses the Australian and Oceanic Music Archive with an extensive collection of field recordings made chiefly in Papua New Guinea. An associa...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
VICTORIA
City:
MELBOURNE
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Archives
Notes:
Monash University was founded in 1965. The Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music forms the music division of the Faculty of Arts. It is housed at the Clayton campus in Melbourne. The University’s Performing Arts Centre houses the School of Music recital hall, a drama theatre, music technology studios,...
Country:
AUSTRALIA
State:
VICTORIA
City:
MELBOURNE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
RMIT University, founded in 1887, is one of the largest in Australia. Programs involving music are offered at Bundoora campus (music teacher training) and at the City campus (training for the music industry and arts administration). A Greek-Australian database of sound recordings from 1950 to 2000 i...
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:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
VIENNA (WIEN)
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Austrian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1847, is the most prominent organisation promoting non-university academic research in Austria. In the area of music it works through its Institute for Art and Music Historical Research with a data bank of Austrian music. This Commission issues regular pu...
Country:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
VIENNA (WIEN)
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Repetiteur Training/Coaching, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
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:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
INNSBRUCK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The full name of this institution is 'Leopold Franzens University'. It can trace its history back to 1669. The Institute of Music Studies was founded in 1926. It has particular strengths in musical iconography, music of the Tyrol and the social history of European dance. There is a collection of re...
Country:
AUSTRIA
State:
City:
VIENNA (WIEN)
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University of Vienna was founded in 1365, being the oldest public university in the German-speaking world and one of the oldest universities in Europe. Language of instruction is German. The Institute of Musicology issues several publication series: • Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. ...
Country:
BELARUS
State:
City:
MINSK
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Formerly known as the Minsk Conservatory, the Academy was founded in 1932 and is the leading music institution in Belarus. There is an opera studio, a school of modern musicology and a separate division of Belarusian music. Facilities include a well equipped music technology studio. Training courses...
Country:
BELGIUM
State:
BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION
City:
BRUSSELS (BRUXELLES)
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Conservatoire was founded in 1813 and was given its current name in 1832. At this address are two distinct institutions, the Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium van Brussel (Flemish-speaking - outlined above), and the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles (French-speaking - see separate entry)...
Country:
BELGIUM
State:
FLANDERS
City:
LEUVEN
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
This is a separate institution from the Université Catholique de Louvain which is a French-speaking institution. Formerly known as the University of Leuven, this Dutch-speaking institution was founded in 1425, being the oldest university of the Low Countries and now the largest Flemish university. ...
Country:
BELGIUM
State:
FLANDERS
City:
GENT (GHENT)
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Archives
Notes:
The university was founded in 1817 and is currently one of the biggest Flemish universities. Language of instruction is Dutch. The Department library holds a vast collection of tapes and scores related to avant-garde music dating from the 1950s which is currently available in a digital archive at w...
Country:
BRAZIL
State:
RIO DE JANEIRO
City:
RIO DE JANEIRO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
Notes:
This federal university (also known as UNIRIO) was founded in 1979. There are several campuses in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The Centro de Letras e Artes offers programs in theatre, literature and music. The music department is known as the Instituto Villa-Lobos, formerly known as the National Cons...
Country:
CANADA
State:
ALBERTA
City:
EDMONTON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University was founded in 1908. Today it boasts five campuses as well as other locations around the province. Facilities include two large rehearsal halls, a small recital hall, two chamber music rooms, thirty practice rooms (including those for organ and percussion), four music classrooms, an...
Country:
CANADA
State:
MANITOBA
City:
BRANDON
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Archives, Suzuki
Notes:
A co-educational, non-denominational, government-supported institution that can trace its history back to 1880, with a school of music added in 1906. It gained its current name and status in 1967. The School of Music is housed in the Queen Elizabeth II Music Building which itself houses the Jill Hod...
Country:
CANADA
State:
ONTARIO
City:
TORONTO
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
This public university was founded as King’s College in 1827, thus being the first institution of higher learning in the colony of Upper Canada. There are other campuses in Mississauga and Scarborough. The Faculty of Music is housed in the Edward Johnston Building in central Toronto. Facilities i...
Country:
CANADA
State:
PROVINCE DE QUÉBEC
City:
MONTREAL
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
This public university was founded in 1821. Its Schulich School of Music is the largest university-based school for professional musical training and music research in Canada. The music department moved into the new Schulich music building in 2005 which houses a number of fine performance and lectur...
Country:
CHILE
State:
City:
SANTIAGO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
This Catholic university was founded in 1888. The Faculty of Arts consists of Schools of Art and Theatre and the Institute of Music. All music courses may lead to later teacher training programs. There are a Centro de Documentación Musicológica, a Laboratorio de Tecnología Musical a Centro de In...
Country:
CHINA
State:
HONG KONG
City:
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1963, and the Department of Music (Chung Chi College) was established in 1963, thus being the first music degree-granting institution in Hong Kong. The music department owns a wide range of Western, Chinese and early music instruments, including many early Western instr...
Country:
CROATIA
State:
City:
ZAGREB
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Institute, founded in 1948, is not a teaching institution, but specialises in interdisciplinary research into Croatian folk music and ethnomusicology. In the New Ethnography Library there is a significant sound, film and manuscript archive of traditional Croatian music, dance and theatre costume...
Country:
CUBA
State:
City:
LA HABANA (HAVANA)
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This Center for Research and Development of Cuban Music (CIDMUC) is not a teaching institution. It was established in 1978 and is organized under the Instituto Cubano de la Música of the Ministry of Culture, the main objective being to foster studies, research and development in Cuban and Caribbean...
Country:
DENMARK
State:
City:
AARHUS
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
Aarhus University was established in 1928. The Department of Musicology is part of the Institute of Aesthetic Studies. The Institute holds a collection of recordings, books and scores of traditional music of Denmark, South Jutland and the Faeroe Islands. Language of instruction is Danish. The Danish...
Country:
DENMARK
State:
City:
ODENSE-ESBJERG
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Danish National Academy of Music (Syddansk Musikkonservatorium - SDMK) is a higher education institution with campuses in the Southern Denmark cities of Odense and Esbjerg offering programs in music and theatre. The library houses the music section of the Odense University library as well as boo...
Country:
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
State:
City:
SANTO DOMINGO
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The conservatory, founded in 1942, operates under the control of the Ministry of Culture. It is housed in a purpose-built building formally inaugurated in February, 1994. The conservatory organizes the only youth symphony orchestra in the country. It controls a total of 21 junior Academías de Músi...
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:
FINLAND
State:
City:
IKAALINEN
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Institute, supported by the Finnish Ministry of Education, issues publications of sheet music, CDs and books and organises courses, competitions and seminars. In the accordion museum there are 70 old accordions, photographs and paintings. The Institute holds the archive of the International Acco...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
KAUSTINEN
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Finnish Folk Music Institute is an Accredited expert organisation of the Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. It is a music and dance research institute and information centre founded in 1974, with a large archive of Finnish folk music and dance, and a libr...
Country:
FINLAND
State:
City:
VAASA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
A government-subsidised research institute, founded in 1978, and concentrating on the traditional music of the Swedish language-speaking regions of Finland. Researches have been carried out in such areas as the instruments used in various districts, recording the history of the folk musician movemen...
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:
FINLAND
State:
City:
TAMPERE
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University of Tampere, together with the Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), constitutes the Tampere Higher Education Authority. At the University of Tampere the research department, one of eight departments of the Faculty of Arts, concentrates on ethnomusicology, offering basic cours...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
VERSAILLES
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Created in 1987 by the Ministry of Culture, the Centre aims to rediscover, restore, edit and distribute the French musical heritage of the 17th and 18th centuries. It is associated with the national museum of Versailles and produces a season of concerts each year. The Centre consists of four departm...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
VERSAILLES
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Library Collections, Military Music Academies, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Army Music Command (Commandement des Musiques de l'Armée de Terre - COMMAT) trains military musicians for the French military. Recruits need to have completed the secondary school baccalaureat diploma in music before being accepted for audition after which they undergo three months of military ...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
PARIS
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Conservatoire was founded in 1795 and is currently located in the Cîté de la Musique at La Villette. It offers programs in music, dance, sound engineering and pedagogy. In the music area there are seven departments: classical and contemporary performance, voice, early music, composition and or...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
PARIS
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
After seventy years of existence the former Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires was closed in 2005 and its collections were transferred to the Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille, Province. While not a teaching institution as such it offers courses...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
City:
PARIS
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Musée du Quai Branly opened in 2006 and is the newest of the major museums in Paris. Among other research bodies and collections, it houses the French Society of Ethnomusicology, founded in 1982, a centre of ethnomusicological research through its Laboratoire d'ethnomusicologie. The research te...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
MIDI-PYRÉNÉES
City:
TOULOUSE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This institution was founded in 1971. It offers part-time courses to interested children and adults and no diplomas are awarded. It specialises in oral traditional music and dance, with tuition on traditional instruments of the region, including Gascon bagpipe, fifre, hurdy-gurdy and accordion as we...
Country:
FRANCE
State:
PROVENCE-ALPES-CÔTE D'AZUR
City:
MARSEILLE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Museum, known as MUCEM, was originally founded in 1937, and after a time spent at the Bois de Boulogne, it was relocated to Marseille in 2013. It conducts research into aspects of European and Mediterranean civilisations, including French culture both at home and in French possessions abroad. Wh...
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:
BERLIN
City:
BERLIN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Archives
Notes:
Humboldt University was founded in 1829 and is the oldest university in Berlin. The musicology department forms part of the University’s Institut für Kultur- und Kunstwissenschaften, within the Philosophische Fakultät III. The Hermann von Helmloltz Cultural Centre holds a sound archive with a s...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
BREMEN
City:
BREMEN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University of Bremen was founded in 1971. The Department of Music co-operates closely with the Music Department of the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen which organises the academic program and lessons in performance for its students. The Music Department hosts an Orchestral Academy, an Academy ...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
HAMBURG
City:
HAMBURG
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to the 17th century and gained its current name and status in 1919. The Institute for Systematic Musicology was founded in 1949. It issues regular publications and holds a large collection of recordings of folk material from Eastern European, African and Asi...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
HESSEN
City:
DARMSTADT
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Institute, founded in 1948, is not a teaching institution, but is an information centre of contemporary music of the City of Darmstadt. It holds an annual International Summer Course for New Music in the City of Darmstadt. The Institute holds an extensive library and archive of music and music h...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
HESSEN
City:
DARMSTADT
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Jazz Institute is a municipal institute founded and financed by the City of Darmstadt. It is not a teaching organisation, but is a premier institution in the archiving, preservation, research and documentation of jazz and its evolution. It holds the largest public research archive on jazz in Eur...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
NIEDERSACHSEN (LOWER SAXONY)
City:
GÖTTINGEN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University was founded in 1734. The Seminar’s Musikinstrumenten Sammlung houses a significant collection of traditional instruments from Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania. The library holds a collection of photographs, a sound archive of early recordings of European art music and an ar...
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:
NIEDERSACHSEN (LOWER SAXONY)
City:
HILDESHEIM
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1946 and gained its current name and status in 1989. There is a Centre for World Music that offers workshops and performance tuition on non-Western instruments and organises a regular summer school. It holds an extensive sound archive and is an autonomous...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN
City:
KÖLN (COLOGNE)
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University of Cologne was founded in 1388 and as such is the oldest university in Germany as it exists today. It gained its current name and status in 1919 and the Institute of Musicology was established in 1921. It houses a collection of traditional instruments mainly from east Asia and Africa....
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 Hochschule für Musik Mainz forms the music department of the Johannes Gutenberg University and is also known as the Academy of Music'. The University itself was founded in 1477, and as such, is one of the oldest universities in Germany. Students wishing to enrol in a music course need to enrol ...
Country:
GERMANY
State:
SAARLAND
City:
SAARBRÜCKEN
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University was founded in 1948, the first German university to be founded after the Second World War. It operates on four campuses in the region. Scholars in the research department have produced a 39-volume complete edition of the works of Lully. The archives contain an extensive collection of ...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Centre for Asia Minor Studies was established in 1930. It is not a teaching institution, but is a scientific institute involved in the collection, research and documentation of oral and written historical tradition related to Asia Minor Greeks. The Musical Folklore Archives form the oldest depar...
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:
GREECE
State:
City:
ATHENS
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Centre, founded in 1979 and operated under the guidance of Ianis Xenakis, conducts research into sound sources available for the composition of contemporary works. The aim is to research and develop the composition of electroacoustic music in Greece. The Centre has carried out research into the ...
Country:
GREECE
State:
City:
ARTA
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Institute was founded in 1994. The Department of Traditional Music aims promote the originality and variety of traditional musics in Greece and some of the surrounding nations (including Turkey, the Balkans, Italy, the Arab world, north Africa). There are branches in Ioannina, Preveza and Igoume...
Country:
GUYANA
State:
City:
GEORGETOWN
Special Indexes:
Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Kodály, Library Collections, Orff Schulwerk, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university was established in 1963. There is a second campus in Berbice. The Amerindian Research Unit has a collections of tapes of indigenous Guyanese music. The library holds some manuscripts of Caribbean and Guyanese composers....
Country:
HONG KONG
State:
City:
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1963, and the Department of Music was established in 1965. In 2016 a Centre for Chinese Music Studies was established. The music department owns a wide range of Western, Chinese and early music instruments, including many early Western instruments, a Javanese gamelan, ...
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:
INDIA
State:
MADHYA PRADESH
City:
KHAIRAGARH
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Indira Kala Sangit Vishwavidyalaya (University of Music and Fine Arts) was founded in 1956 and has affiliated colleges throughout India. It teaches the classical traditional music and dance styles of both North India (Hindustani) and South India (Karnatak), together with visual arts, theatre and...
Country:
INDIA
State:
MAHARASHTRA
City:
PUNE
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Programs for the Handicapped, Public Examinations in Music, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Bharatiya Sangeet Prasarak Mandal is a charitable institution established in 1932 to promote Hindustani classical music. It is not primarily a teaching body, but through the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya it offers a sequential teaching program through ten levels. It administers examinations and awards...
Country:
INDIA
State:
NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY
City:
NEW DELHI
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Academy, an autonomous body of the Ministry of Culture, was founded in 1952 for the furtherance of the performing arts of India, a task in which it co-operates with counterparts in the States and voluntary organisations all over the country. It is the premier institution for the promotion, prese...
Country:
INDIA
State:
TAMIL NADU
City:
CHENNAI (formerly MADRAS)
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Academy was founded in 1928. It specialises in the research and study of South Indian (Karnatak) music and houses an archive of books and music recordings. The Advanced School of Karnatic Music was established in 2010. It organises an annual music festival. The Research Centre has been affiliate...
Country:
INDIA
State:
TAMIL NADU
City:
CHENNAI (formerly MADRAS)
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1857. The Department of Indian Music was inaugurated in 1932 and is a performance-oriented institution. It offers programs in South Indian Classical music (Karnataka), specialising in voice performance. Other studies include history and styles of Indian musics, world mu...
Country:
INDIA
State:
UTTAR PRADESH
City:
ALLAHABAD
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Public Examinations in Music, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Prayag Sangit Samiti was founded in 1926. It is housed in two buildings in the city of Allahabad and aims to propagate and popularise Indian Classical Music (Hindustani). Music programs are offered at the Vishnu Digamber Academy of Music. The Society organises competitions and conferences, and a...
Country:
IRAQ
State:
City:
BAGHDAD
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This Centre for Traditional Music of Baghdad and its archival collections, built up largely between 1971 and 1979, had the joint aims of systematically collecting and documenting Iraq's oral musical traditions and of training students to play traditional Iraqi music and the Iraqi maqam, a characteri...
Country:
IRELAND
State:
City:
DUBLIN
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
While not a teaching institution, the Contemporary Music Centre, founded in 1986, documents and promotes Irish music. It is the national archive and resource centre for new Irish music in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. The library holds an audiovisual archive of some 10,000 recordings of Ir...
Country:
IRELAND
State:
City:
DUBLIN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
Trinity College is the music department of the University of Dublin. It can trace its history back to 1592, and its Chair of Music was first established in 1764. The current Department of Music became part of the University’s School of Drama, Film and Music in 2006. Performance tuition is not avai...
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:
ISRAEL
State:
City:
JERUSALEM
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Kodály, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Academy can trace its history back to 1932, and following a period under the name of the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, it moved in 1985 to the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem though retaining its independence from the University. Three institutions form the Jerusalem A...
Country:
ISRAEL
State:
City:
TEL-AVIV
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Tel-Aviv University was founded in 1953. The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music is an academic institution jointly operated by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Tel-Aviv University. It was formerly known as the Samuel Rubin Academy of Music, and also includes the former Department of Musicology ...
Country:
ITALY
State:
EMILIA-ROMAGNA
City:
REGGIO EMILIA
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
A music school organised by the municipality. It can trace its history aback to 1857. There is a Laboratory of Audio Recording - Video and Computer Music. The library holds an extensive collection of photographs, recordings and cassette tapes of local popular music and musicians as well as ethnomusi...
Country:
JAMAICA
State:
City:
KINGSTON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Community Music Training, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Established in 1995, this is the only institution of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean. The College has schools of drama, dance, visual arts, music and arts management as well as a school of continuing education. Evening and summer courses are offered to interested adults and may lead to mo...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
ŌSAKA PREFECTURE
City:
ŌSAKA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private co-educational music college founded in 1915 and was chartered as a university in 1958. The college houses a pipe organ, an opera house with resident professional chorus and orchestra, a state-of-the-art electronic music laboratory, a museum holding over 3,500 musical instruments from arou...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
ŌSAKA PREFECTURE
City:
ŌSAKA
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private co-educational university founded in 1964. The Faculty of Arts has departments of photography, architecture, environmental planning, visual concept planning, art planning, broadcasting, theatrical arts, literary arts, fine arts, design, crafts, musicology, performance and music education. ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
TOKYO PREFECTURE
City:
TOKYO
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives
Notes:
A private co-educational music college founded in 1961 though it can trace its history back to 1948. It is located about five minutes’ walk from Sengawa station on the Keio Line, and about half an hour by train from Shinjuku. The College is renowned for the quality of its training in performance, ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
TOKYO PREFECTURE
City:
TOKYO
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A national co-educational university founded in 1887 and was granted full university status in 1949 with the amalgamation of the separate schools of Fine Arts and Music. There are programs in fine arts, music, film and new media, and global arts. The Master’s degree was added in 1963 and the Docto...
Country:
KAZAKHSTAN
State:
City:
ALMATY
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Conservatory was founded in 1945. It prepares students in both Western and Kazakh traditions. The Conservatory building houses a number of fine performance spaces. There is a significant collection of recordings of traditional music in the Conservatory’s Folklore Laboratory. An instrument work...
Country:
KYRGYZSTAN
State:
City:
BISHKEK
Special Indexes:
Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This non-profit pubic co-educational institution was founded in 1967 as the Institute of Arts and gained its current name in 1993. It is officially accredited by the Ministry of Education and Science. The Conservatory has a collection of 9,000 hours of audio recordings of traditional folk music. In...
Country:
LEBANON
State:
City:
JOUNIEH
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Kodály, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This private Catholic university was founded in 1961 though it can trace its history back to 1938. It is run by the Lebanese Maronite Order of Monks. The Faculty of Music, founded in 1973, consists of two departments - Music (comprising musicology, ethnomusicology, music education and sacred music),...
Country:
LITHUANIA
State:
City:
VILNIUS
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre was founded in 1918 as the Kaunas Music School. In 1949 it was merged with the Vilnius Conservatoire and became the Lithuanian State Conservatoire. In 2004 it gained its current name and status and was further enlarged in 2018 with the integration of the A...
Country:
MALTA
State:
City:
MSIDA
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University can trace its history back to 1591. The Mediterranean Institute organises the music program within the Faculty of Arts. Its Music Studies division holds an archive of folk and traditional music of the region and offers courses in ethnomusicology of the region. There is some collaborat...
Country:
MOLDOVA
State:
City:
BĂLŢI
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The university was established in 1945. In 2011 the Faculty of Music and Musical Pedagogy combined with the Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology and Social Assistance and became known as the Faculty of Sciences of Education and Arts. The Musical Documents Office has a large collection of documents and re...
Country:
NEPAL
State:
City:
DHULIKHEL
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university, an autonomous, not-for-profit public institution, was founded in 1991 and the School of Arts was established in 1996 in Bhaktapur, about 30 kilometres east of Kathmandu. The Department of Music aims to study and preserve Nepalese music traditions and their relationship with other Sou...
Country:
NETHERLANDS
State:
City:
AMSTERDAM
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University, the largest in The Netherlands, can trace its history back to 1632. The School houses the Jaap Kunst Ethnomusicology Centre (Etnomusicologisch Centrum ‘Jaap Kunst’), which, while studying musics of most regions of the world, specialises in traditional musics of Indonesia, the The...
Country:
NIGER
State:
City:
NIAMEY
Special Indexes:
Community Music Training, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Instrument Making/Maintenance, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Centre de Formation et de Promotion Musicale El Hadji Taya (C.F.P.M.) was founded in 1989 and operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture to promote the traditions of folklore, story-telling and music performance by local musicians/griots. The Centre also encourages m...
Country:
NORTH MACEDONIA
State:
City:
SKOPJE
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Librarianship Training, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university was founded in 1949 and is named after the Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries Cyril and Methodius. The Faculty of Music was established in 1966. There are departments of performance, theory, composition, conducting, musicology, ethnomusicology, music education and dance....
Country:
NORWAY
State:
City:
STAVANGER
Special Indexes:
Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
This is not a teaching institution, but houses one of Europe’s biggest collections of recorded sound, with 50,000 78 rpm records, 120,000 LPs, 10,000 audio reel tapes, 5,000 video and music cassettes, 5,000 books about music as well as extensive technical equipment to play and copy different recor...
Country:
NORWAY
State:
City:
BERGEN
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
The University’s Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design was established in 2017 from an amalgamation of the earlier Grieg Academy and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design. The Greig Academy is the music school of the University of Bergen. It houses the Institute of Ethnic Folklore (Etno-Folkloristi...
Country:
NORWAY
State:
City:
OSLO
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives
Notes:
The University of Oslo can trace its history back to 1811, thus being the oldest university in Norway. The Department of Music and Theatre comprises three divisions – Norwegian folk music, musicology and history of theatre. Apart from Western music, studies are also available in ethnomusicology, N...
Country:
OMAN
State:
City:
MUSCAT
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
Established in 1984 by His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, this is a research centre for Omani traditional music operating under the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information and the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture. The aim is to collect and document the country's musical heritage and ge...
Country:
POLAND
State:
City:
WARSAW
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Eurhythmics/Dalcroze, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Opera Conducting, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering
Notes:
The Frederic Chopin University of Music (Uniwersytet Muzycznay im. Fryderyka Chopina) is one of the oldest music academies in Europe, being founded in 1810, and gaining its current name and status in 2008. Postgraduate courses are available only to Polish and European Union citizens (with proof of k...
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:
QATAR
State:
City:
DOHA
Special Indexes:
Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
This research centre was founded in 1983 by agreement between the governments of Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Board of Directors includes representatives from each member State, with the chairperson being the Minister of Information from Qatar. ...
Country:
ROMANIA
State:
City:
CLUJ-NAPOCA
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei) was founded in 1922. It is not a teaching institution. It has a collection of traditional Romanian instruments as well as recordings and photographs of traditional costumes and instruments, together with information about t...
Country:
ROMANIA
State:
City:
BUCHAREST (BUCURESTI)
Special Indexes:
Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Research-only Institutions, Sound Archives
Notes:
The National Village Museum (Muzeul Național al Satului „Dimitrie Gusti”), created in 1936, is operated under the Ministry of Culture. It is an open-air ethnographic museum showcasing traditional Romanian village life, with 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania. It can tr...
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:
RUSSIA
State:
City:
NOVOSIBIRSK
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Instrument Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Conservatory was founded in 1956. There is a collection of instruments from south-east Asia and Siberia and a sound archive ot Siberian folk music. Special institutes concentrate on ancient Russian music and the history of music and traditional cultures in Siberia. Facilities include two concert...
Country:
RUSSIA
State:
City:
EKATERINBURG
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Choral Conducting, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Opera Performance, Orchestral Conducting, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Conservatory, one of the largest higher music institutions in Russia, was founded in 1934. There are eight faculties: Orchestra and Folk Instruments, Piano, Singing, Orchestral and Choral Conducting, Musicology, Composition, Sound Engineering, and Media and Cultural Management and Marketing. Fac...