Zhejiang Conservatory of Music is a public full-time regular university approved by the Ministry of Education on March 1, 2016. Organized by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, under the supervision of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and jointly built by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The school is located in the Zhijiang area of Xihu District, Hangzhou, with a beautiful campus environment and first-class facilities. The campus covers an area of 602 acres, with a building area of 360000 square meters. It has one grand theater, three concert halls, three theaters, two studios, 104 rehearsal rooms, 935 piano rooms, eight recording studios, as well as teaching and artistic practice venues such as a library.
The school has three first level disciplines, including music and dance, art theory, and drama and film studies. Two disciplines, music and dance, and drama and film studies, are listed in the provincial first-class discipline construction plan, with music and dance being an A-class plan. We have the authority to confer master’s degrees in music and dance, as well as professional degree authorization points for master’s degrees in art. There are 8 majors including Composition and Composition Technology Theory, Musicology, Music Performance, Dance Studies, Dance Performance, Dance Directing, Performance, Art and Technology. Among them, 5 majors including Musicology, Music Performance, Composition and Composition Technology Theory, Dance Studies, and Performance are national first-class undergraduate majors, and the remaining 3 majors are provincial first-class undergraduate majors. Establish 12 teaching units including Composition and Conducting Department, Musicology Department, Music Education College, Piano Department, Vocal Opera Department, Chinese Music Department, Orchestra Department, Popular Music Department, Dance College, Drama Department, Music Engineering Department, and Humanities and Social Sciences Department (Marxist College), as well as affiliated music schools, Continuing Education College, Entrepreneurship College, International Education College, and Shutong College. There are provincial and ministerial level research institutions such as the Key Laboratory of Digital Music Intelligent Processing Technology of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Zhejiang Engineering Research Center for Digital Music, and the Zhejiang Literature and Art Innovation Research Center, as well as school level research platforms such as the Higher Music Education Research Institute, the Drama Research Institute, the Music Research Institute, the Dance Research Institute, the Higher Research Institute of Art and Cultural Management, and the Music Culture Research Institute. There are also five new performance subject teaching platforms, including the Band Academy, the Ethnic Band Academy, the Opera Academy, the Chamber Music Academy, and the Choral Academy. There are high-level art practice groups such as chamber orchestras, ethnic chamber orchestras, symphony orchestras, Chinese orchestras, choirs, etc., and an editorial department for the Journal of Music Culture Research is also established. The school has signed intercollegiate strategic cooperation agreements with many internationally renowned institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music in the UK, the Royal Northern Conservatory of Music, the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary, Roland University, and the Milan Conservatory of Music in Italy. As the chairman unit, the school has established the “China Central and Eastern European Countries Music School Alliance” and actively carries out international exchanges and cooperation. The school has been approved by the Ministry of Education to have the qualification for independent enrollment of undergraduate art majors, and is open to enrollment nationwide. There are currently 2860 undergraduate students and 674 graduate students. There are currently 682 faculty members, including 444 full-time teachers.
As a modern university of music and arts, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music adheres to the spirit of “school music songs” advocated by Mr. Li Shutong, takes “doing good in everything” as the school motto, “upholding virtue and pursuing excellence in art” as the value concept, and “high-level first-class music academy” as the goal. Based on a high starting point planning, high standard construction, and high-level education, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music cultivates outstanding artistic talents with solid foundation, exquisite skills, distinctive characteristics, and both morality and art, striving to make new contributions to national construction and human civilization progress.