Conservatory (school)

A music school or conservatory is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship and music theory. The terms conservatoire and conservatorium are also used in some English-speaking countries when referring to music schools.

In some music schools, other standard subjects taught as secondary (such as at the Yehudi Menuhin School).

Prominent music schools

Argentina

• Conservatorio Nacional de Música

France

• Conservatoire de Paris

The Netherlands

• Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Italy

• Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia

Spain

• Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo
• Madrid Conservatory

Russia

• Moscow Conservatory
• St. Petersburg Conservatory

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

• Yehudi Menuhin School
• Chetham's School of Music
• The Purcell School

USA

• The Juilliard School (New York)
• Manhattan School of Music (New York)
• Mannes School of Music
• New England Conservatory of Music (Boston)
• Berklee College of Music (Boston)
• Indiana University School of Music
• Eastman School of Music (Rochester)
• Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)
• Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)