Central Conservatory of Music

The Central Conservatory of Music was established in 1949 through the merger of several music education institutions, including the National Conservatory of Music founded in 1940. It is an institution of higher education dedicated to training high-level specialist musicians and the only arts institution in China included in Project 211. Its teaching departments and schools include Composition, Musicology, Conducting, Piano, Orchestral Instruments, Traditional Chinese Instruments, Vocal and Opera Studies, the School of Music Education, the Violin Making Research Center, the Orchestra Academy, the affiliated secondary music school, the School of Modern Distance Music Education, and the School of Continuing Education. Other institutions include the Institute of Musicology, a Ministry of Education key research base in the humanities and social sciences. It currently has 1543 undergraduate students and 663 postgraduate students. As a national center for music education, research, composition and performance, and for promoting music in society, the Central Conservatory of Music represents the standard of China’s professional music education. It offers a comprehensive range of programs and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

The Central Conservatory of Music is an institution to which musicians in China and abroad aspire. Over more than seventy years, it has built strong teaching and educational management teams. Many experts and scholars have made outstanding contributions in teaching and research. It has attracted talented young musicians from China and overseas and trained tens of thousands of outstanding musicians and hundreds of international students. Most have become nationally and internationally renowned composers, musicologists, music educators, performers, and leaders and key professionals in cultural and arts institutions. While inheriting the musical traditions and experience of the Chinese nation, the conservatory continually absorbs outstanding musical cultures from countries and peoples around the world. With an open and inclusive spirit, it welcomes diverse academic strengths, maintains vigorous vitality, develops toward increasingly refined international standards, and strives to become a world-class conservatory.