A music school or conservatory is an institution dedicated to teaching the art of music, including playing of musical instruments, musical composition, musicianship and music theory.
In some music schools, other standard subjects taught as secondary (such as at the Yehudi Menuhin School).
The terms conservatoire and conservatorium are also used in some English-speaking countries when referring to music schools.
Prominent music schools
France
The Netherlands
Italy
Spain
UK
Undergraduate & Postgraduate
- Birmingham Conservatoire (part of University of Central England)
- Royal Academy of Music, London (part of University of London)
- Royal College of Music, London
- Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London
- Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow
- Trinity College of Music, London
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff
Secondary and younger
USA
- The Juilliard School (New York)
- Manhattan School of Music (New York)
- Mannes School of Music
- New England Conservatory of Music (Boston)
- Berklee College of Music (Boston)
- Indiana University School of Music
- Eastman School of Music (Rochester)
- Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia)