Zhejiang Art Academy, a result of the merger of Zhejiang Art School and Zhejiang Film School on December 6, 1999, is the only professional and comprehensive art college in East China's Zhejiang Province.
Located in the No 255 Jiefang Road ofWuhan, the Wuhan Conservatory of Music aims to nurture special musical talents. The conservatory boasts a distinguished history with its forerunner, the music department of the Wuchang Technical School of Art, founded in 1928.
The forerunner of the Beijing Contemporary Music Academy is the Beijing Folk Music Training Center, which was founded in April 1993. In June 1996, theBeijingModernMusicalAcademywas set up via an admission from the Education Committee of Beijing.
Founded in 1957, the predecessor of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, the Guangzhou Conservatory of Music, was renamed Guangzhou Technical School of Music in 1958. In 1969, the school cooperated with the Guangzhou Fine Art Academy to form the People's Art Academy
In 1953, the Northwest Art Academy instigated a readjustment by combining the music department and the fine art department into the Northwest Technical School of Art. The Xi'an Technical School of Music was founded in 1956 at the site of the school's music department, changing its name to the Xi'an Conservatory of Music in 1960.
Founded in 1958, the Tianjin Conservatory of Music was then called Hebei Conservatory of Music. It was set up on the base left behind by the Central Conservatory of Music when it moved fromTianjintoBeijing. The current president of the conservatory is Yao Shengchang, who succeeded the former president, Miao Tianrui.
The Sichuan Conservatory of Music's predecessor is the Sichuan Opera and Music Experimental School, whose history dates back to 1939. The school changed its name toSouthwestMusicalTechnicalSchoolin 1952, and has used its current name since 1959.
The Lu Xun Art Academy moved to Shenyang in 1948 during the third national revolutionary war and changed its name to the Lu Xun Art Academy of the Northeast. In 1953, the Musical Technical School of the Northeast was founded on the base of the academy's music department and was renamed Shanyang Conservatory of Music.
With the preparations beginning in April 1981, the Social Conservatory of Music was finally set up in December 1984 in Beijing. Initiated by the Central Philharmonic Orchestra and associated with the Central Folk Orchestra of China and the Opera and Drama Theatre of China, the conservatory subsidized the central philharmonic orchestra.
The Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SCM), founded in 1949, is an institution of higher education under the Ministry of Culture.
There is Vocalist Department, Opera Department, Composing Department, Department of Music Science, Instrument Department, Music Education Department, Social Science Department, Development Department...
Its tasks are: train specialized music personnel of higher levels including graduate, postgraduate and doctor-degree students, and carry out music education in middle and primary schools.
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