A music school or conservatory is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship , music history 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

Canada

• Conservatoire de musique et d'art dramatique du Québec (nine schools) See Conservatoires du Québec
• Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto)
• Faculty of Music: McGill University See [1]

Denmark

• Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus

Finland

• Sibelius Academy

France

• Conservatoire de Paris
• Conservatoire de Nice

Germany

• Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler (Berlin)
• Hochschule für Musik Detmold
• Hochschule für Musik Dresden
• Hochschule für Musik Köln
• Hochschule für Musik Trossingen

The Netherlands

• Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Italy

• Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia
• Milan Conservatory

Spain

• Centro Superior de Música del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian/Donostia
• Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceo, Barcelona
• Conservatorio Superior de Música, Cordoba
• Conservatorio Superior de Música, Murcia
• Conservatorio Superior de Música, Salamanca
• Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, Barcelona
• Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia, Madrid
• Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid

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

• Chetham's School of Music
• City of Edinburgh Music School
• Purcell School
• Yehudi Menuhin School

USA

• California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA)
• Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)
• Berklee College of Music (Boston)
• Eastman School of Music (Rochester)
• Indiana University School of Music (Bloomington, IN)
• The Juilliard School (New York)
• Longy School of Music (Boston)
• Manhattan School of Music (New York)
• Mannes College of Music (New York)
• Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
• New England Conservatory of Music (Boston)
• North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
• Northwestern University School of Music (Evanston, IL)
• Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, OH)
• Peabody Institute (Baltimore, MD)
• Westmister Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, NJ)
• San Francisco Conservatory of Music (San Francisco, CA)
• University of North Texas School of Music (Denton, Texas)

See also

• Category:Music schools