Sichuan Conservatory of Music
The Sichuan Conservatory of Music (Chinese: 四川音乐学院), founded in 1939, is one of the leading music institutions in China, and is considered to be the largest conservatory in the world. It is an interdisciplinary higher education institution boasting comprehensive art subjects, excellent teaching staff, well-equipped teaching facilities, and distinguished teaching achievements. SCCM is one of the select conservatories authorized by the State Council to confer graduate degrees to its music and fine arts majors.
SCCM has its own symphony orchestra, philharmonic orchestra, concert wind orchestra, Chinese traditional orchestra, several college choirs, and numerous pre-college ensembles. The conservatory holds hundreds of concerts throughout each year, and regularly invites distinguished guest artists and teachers from around the world. Every two years, the school hosts an intensive international piano festival, where students work with world-renowned artists such as Gary Graffman, John O'Conor, John Perry, and Boris Berman.
Thousands of students from SCCM have won prizes both at home and abroad, including over 430 international prizes. In 2000, Yundi Li and Sa Chen won first and fourth place respectively in the “14th International Chopin Piano Competition." In 2005, Wei Wen won third place in the “9th Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition." In 2006, Feng Ning won third place in the “51st International Violin Competition 'Nicolo Paganini.'" The school's national key research projects such as “Research on the musical instruments of minority groups in southwest China” and “Research on the southwest Silk Road” have also yielded great achievements.
Both provincial and municipal leaders have attached great importance to the development of SCCM. The government recently launched a project to add several new concert halls around the existing conservatory grounds, currently under construction.
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- Official website (English) (Chinese)