Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Founded in 1927, Shanghai Conservatory of Music was the first music institution of higher education in China. Nowadays the conservatory has established a solid foundation on different subjects such as composition, performing arts, research and technology of music and consists of 15 departments and 22 undergraduate majors and offers 28 graduate programs and 21 doctoral programs including the departments of Composition, Conducting, Musicology, Voice and Opera, Piano, Orchestral Instruments, Chinese Traditional Instruments, Music Education, Music Engineering, Arts Administration, Modern Instruments & Percussion, Music Theatre, the Institute of Digital Media Art, Academic Studies and Postgraduate Office, etc. The conservatory has the authority of Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degree granting and two post-doctoral stations of Arts and Study of Music and Dance, with a secondary school and an elementary section, thus forming a self-contained system with a complete curriculum of music and academic education.