Best Music Colleges/Conservatories in the world

Claudio Arrau, Leopold Godowsky, Otto Klemperer, Kurt Weill, Bruno Walter, Ignatz Waghalter among others, and notable teachers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Clara Schumann, Joseph Joachim, Pascal Devoyon, Witold Szalonek,...

Long name for a terrific institution.

Uk's oldest music institution, and second oldest music training institution after Paris Conservatoire. Has trained important musicians such as Simon Rattle, Elton John, Maxim Vengerov (Junior Academy), Annie Lennox, John Barbirolli, Harrison Birtwistle, Dennis Brain. Current faculty (and visiting professors) include Sir Colin Davis, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Maxim Vengerov, Semyon Bychkov, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Maurice Hasson , Stephen Hough...

Formerly known as Trinity College of Music.

Important music institution in South Kensington. Alumni and cutrrent and past faculty include: Benjamin Britten, Leopold Stokowski, Gustav Holst , Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Colin Davis, Joan Sutherland...

Part of the prestigious John Hopkins University.

Royal Conservatory of The Netherlands.

The HEM stems from the Geneva Music Conservatory (French: Conservatoire de Musique de Genève) founded 1835 by François Bartholoni (1796-1881). The Music & Movement Department stems from the Institute founded in 1915 by the musician and educator Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. The Conservatoire de musique de Genève was one of the first founded in Europe. Many great artists taught there, such as Franz Liszt Ernest Bloch Ernest Ansermet Dinu Lipatti Nikita Magaloff Marcel Moyse Joseph Szigeti José Vianna da Motta

Franz Liszt Academy of Music.

2 year-master.

Among the top schools in US, and arguably the best place to study Saxophone, Composition, musical theater and a number of other subjects.

Excellent Opera program that produces artists highly prized by Opera Companies. Very good Piano Department, also known for Music Theater. Formed when two Cincinnati conservatories merged, then later affiliated with the University. Almost all Graduate Students are on full Scholarship, and the School attracts the best from all over the World.

The Prague Conservatoire.

The best Conservatory in Turkey.

One of the oldest music conservatory tradition in Eastern Europe. Located in a city with cultural tradition in Transylvania, here amounted world-class musicians and teachers, recognized in countries with a rich musical tradition and culture (France, Germany, Austria, England, Italy, the US and many other countries) of them made at the highest performance level as singers or instrumental performers, conductors and teachers. It is specified as a strong point of the Conservatory of Music has been and remains class composition, with tradition, often excelled in various international competitions. Not only the value showing in competition contests but remember that music written by composers from school in Cluj, it is interpreted with great success in many parts of the world.

Very strong program in the US. with an excellent piano department.

Spain's oldest conservatoire! Sarasate, Falla, Albeniz and Granados studied there.

One of the oldest music conservatory tradition in Eastern Europe. Located in a city with cultural tradition in Transylvania, here amounted world-class musicians and teachers, recognized in countries with a rich musical tradition and culture (France, Germany, Austria, England, Italy, the US and many other countries) of them made at the highest performance level as singers or instrumental performers, conductors and teachers. It is specified as a strong point of the Conservatory of Music has been and remains class composition, with tradition, often excelled in various international competitions. Not only the value showing in competition contests but remember that music written by composers from school in Cluj, it is interpreted with great success in many parts of the world.

Norwegian Academy of Music.

Mannes College The New School for Music.

Many notable world class alumnus, such as Steven Spooner (Steinway), Alexander Toradze, Giya Kancheli, Khatia Buniatishvili, Elisso Virsaladze (Berezowsky teacher), Ioseb Bardanishvili (Israel Academy of Music Prof), Giorgi Latso (Steinway), and many more as well as notable world-renown legacy Professors who used to teach here, such as Anton Rubenstein, Sergei Rachmaninoff (the only conservatory with Rachmaninoff's museum built in the campus), P. Tcaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, M. Glinka, and many more. Recently, our alumni who is still working on her bachelor degree has just won Franz Liszt International Piano Competition 2015 in Weimar.

One of the best music schools in Germany

One of the oldest conservatories in the US... founded in 1867 - Boston Conservatory has got to be on this list....really.

Why isn't it in the top 5?

Toho Gakuen School of Music. Founded in 1948 in Kudan (Tokyo) alumni include Seiji Ozawa, Hiroko Nakamura, and Eiji Oue.

Small conservatory offering only undergraduate training (5-year double degree) and limited postgraduate trainin (only conducting and vocal arts), but already highly reputated.

Royal College of Music, Stockholm.

It is the most important institution that forms musicians in Romania. It is internationally known and very appreciated because of its graduates who have excelled in all areas of music.

Fryderyk Chopin University of Music

National Conservatory of Music of Mexico.

Music Conservatoire of Castilla la Mancha or Salamanca's Conservatoire.

One of the best places in the country for Jazz and pop. The classical department while small is developing into a brilliant program

Royal Danish Academy of Music.

One of the best schools in the world with number of prize winners of music competitions such as Tchaikovsky competition amongst it’s students and alumnies.

A young institution and performance in Eastern Europe, where the focus is on conducting choral and choral music. The most famous professors of faculties was: Pautza Sabin, Kenneth Tuker, Nicolae Bica, Teodor Caciora.