Music school
A music school or conservatory (American English) — also known as a conservatoire (British English) or a conservatorium (Australian English) — is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including the playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship, music history, and music theory.
Some music schools, such as the Yehudi Menuhin School, include other academic subjects in their curricula.
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Prominent music schools
Australia
Argentina
Canada
- Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (nine schools)
- Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto)
- McGill University Faculty of Music
Denmark
Finland
France
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Conservatoire de Nice
Germany
- Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin)
- Hochschule für Musik Detmold
- Hochschule für Musik Dresden
- Hochschule für Musik Köln
- Hochschule für Musik Trossingen
Italy
- Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia
- Milan Conservatory
The Netherlands
Spain
- Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, San Sebastián/Donostia
- Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo, Barcelona
- Conservatorio Superior de Música, Córdoba
- Conservatorio Superior de Música, Murcia
- Conservatorio Superior de Música, Salamanca
- Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, Barcelona
- Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, Madrid
- Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid
Russia
UK
Undergraduate & Postgraduate
- Birmingham Conservatoire (part of the University of Central England in Birmingham)
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
- Royal Academy of Music, London (part of the University of London)
- Royal College of Music, London
- Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
- Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff (part of the University of Wales)
- Trinity College of Music, London
Secondary and younger
USA
- California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)
- Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)
- Berklee College of Music (Boston)
- Eastman School of Music (Rochester)
- Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington, IN)
- The Juilliard School (New York)
- Longy School of Music (Boston)
- Manhattan School of Music (New York)
- Mannes College of Music (New York)
- Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
- New England Conservatory of Music (Boston)
- North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
- Northwestern University School of Music (Evanston, IL)
- Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)
- Peabody Institute (Baltimore, MD)
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music (San Francisco, CA)
- University of Illinois School of Music (Urbana, IL)
- University of North Texas School of Music (Denton, Texas)
- University of Southern California Thornton School of Music (Los Angeles, CA)
- Westmister Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, NJ)
See also
Categories: School types | Music education | Music schools