Tianjin Conservatory of Music

Tianjin Conservatory of Music was founded in 1958 and is one of the first institutions in China to confer master's and bachelor's degrees. The first president of Tianjin Conservatory of Music was Miao Tianrui, a famous music educator and theorist.

After more than 60 years of construction, the college has developed into an important higher art education institution for cultivating professionals in music, dance, drama, and film and television. It currently has three first-level disciplines: art theory, music and dance, and drama and film and television, and one professional master's (MFA) authorization point. Music and dance, and drama and film and television are municipal key disciplines. There are 12 undergraduate majors, including music performance, including 3 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 3 Tianjin municipal-level advantageous and characteristic majors, and 3 applied majors.

The college is divided into two campuses, the south and the north. There are 440 faculty members and 3,298 full-time students, including 2,753 undergraduates and 545 postgraduates. There are 15 teaching departments including musicology, composition, vocal music, folk vocal music, folk music, orchestra, piano, accordion keyboard, music education, art management, modern music, dance, drama and film, basic courses, ideological and political teaching center, as well as the School of Continuing Education, the Attached Middle School and the Attached Primary School (cooperation), forming a complete multi-level and multi-type art talent training model and training system.

The college has a group of famous musicians, scholars and academic leaders who have a great influence in the music world at home and abroad, and has brought together a group of excellent teaching and scientific research results. There are 265 full-time teachers and 147 master's supervisors. In recent years, the college has mainly introduced, recruited and cultivated talents, adhered to the principle of "all over the world", and continuously broadened and strengthened the dimensions and strength of talent team building. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, more than 120 people have been approved for talent projects at all levels and above. In recent years, the college has undertaken a number of national art funds, national social science funds, and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and teachers and students have won more than 300 third prizes or above in important international and domestic competitions.

The college adheres to the high-level and distinctive school-running direction, takes talent training as its school-running purpose, and currently has national-level characteristic professional construction sites, national-level planning textbooks, national-level first-class undergraduate courses, and national-level college student innovation and entrepreneurship projects; it has Tianjin's advantageous and characteristic majors, application-oriented majors, curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, teaching masters, teaching teams, teaching achievement awards, professional comprehensive reform pilots, experimental teaching demonstration centers, etc.; it has established an opera center and opened open academic exchange platforms such as "Tianlai Forum" and "Music Lecture Hall". The college has been approved for a number of national art fund projects, including the original opera "Yue Fei" large-scale stage play project, the "Accordion Art Nationalization Promotion" talent training project, and the youth art creation talent training funding project, which fully demonstrate the characteristics of the college's disciplinary advantages and resources and reflect the results of collaborative innovation and training of talents; the college's youth national orchestra, youth symphony orchestra, youth choir, youth drama troupe, youth dance troupe and other art performance groups are active on the domestic and international music and art stage.

The college adheres to the open school-running policy and actively carries out high-level international music and cultural exchanges. It cooperates with the world's top university, the Juilliard School, to open the Juilliard Institute of Tianjin Conservatory of Music and the Tianjin Juilliard School. In September 2020, the Juilliard Institute of Tianjin Conservatory of Music welcomed its first graduate students. In October 2021, the Tianjin Juilliard School campus inauguration ceremony was held. The college also conducts academic exchanges with many famous foreign music colleges such as the Royal Danish Academy of Music; it has held five "Tianjin May Music Festivals", four "Tianjin International Accordion Art Festivals and International Competitions", five international accordion master classes, and "Tianjin International Modern Music Festival and Exchange of New Works for Young and Middle-aged Musicians" and many other large-scale academic activities; it has invited famous composers, theorists, and performers from home and abroad to give academic lectures and master class teaching, which has played an important role in promoting the exchange of Chinese and foreign music and culture.

Facing new opportunities and challenges, Tianjin Conservatory of Music stands at a new starting point, fully implements the Party's education policy, adheres to the school motto of "pursuing perfection and creating excellence", strives to cultivate high-level art talents with both moral integrity and art, based in Tianjin, facing the whole country, and integrating into the world, and strives to build Tianjin Conservatory of Music into a distinctive international and high-level music and art college.