Central Conservatory of Music

The Central Conservatory of Music was named and established by the State Council of the Central People's Government in 1949. It was formed by the merger of several music education institutions, including the Music Department of Yan'an Lu Xun Academy of Arts established in 1938, the Chongqing National Conservatory of Music established in 1940, the Third Department of Music of North China University established in 1948, and the Music Department of the National Peking Art College established in 1918. It is a higher education institution that trains senior specialized music talents. In 1960, it was designated as a national key university by the State Council. In 2000, it was included in the national "211 Project" construction institutions. It is the only national key university among art colleges in the country. In 2017, it was selected as a national "double first-class" discipline construction university. Currently, the Central Conservatory of Music has departments of composition, musicology, conducting, piano, orchestra, folk music, vocal opera, music artificial intelligence and music information technology, music education college, violin making research center, humanities department, affiliated secondary music school, modern distance music education college, continuing education college, Gulangyu Piano School and other teaching colleges and departments, and the key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education-the Institute of Musicology and other institutions. As of December 2021, the Central Conservatory of Music has a total of 3,667 full-time students, including 1,586 undergraduates, 753 masters, 178 doctoral students, and 1,150 students in the affiliated middle school (including the attached primary school). As the national music education center, music creation, performance and research center, and social music promotion center, the Central Conservatory of Music is a music school that represents the level of professional music education in China, has a complete range of majors, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

The Central Conservatory of Music is a place that music talents at home and abroad yearn for. Over the past 70 years, the school has established a strong faculty and teaching management team. A group of experts and scholars with outstanding contributions have emerged in teaching, creation, performance and scientific research, attracting a large number of talented young musicians from home and abroad to study at the school, and cultivating tens of thousands of outstanding music talents and hundreds of foreign students, most of whom have become composers, musicologists, music educators, music performing artists, leaders and business backbones of cultural and art institutions with high reputation at home and abroad.

While inheriting the music traditions and experience of the Chinese nation, the Central Conservatory of Music continues to absorb the excellent music culture of countries and ethnic groups around the world, and accommodates various artistic forces with a broad mind. In the new historical period, the Central Conservatory of Music will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, keep in mind the original intention, keep in mind the mission, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, deepen the comprehensive reform of education, accelerate the construction of "double first-class", and start a new journey of development of a world-class music conservatory with Chinese characteristics, and make new historical contributions to the realization of the "two centenary" goals and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.