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The Conservatoire comprises eight specialist schools delivering world-leading education and vocational training in the performing arts. We train the performing artists and production professionals of the future: actors, circus artists, dancers, stage managers, technical theatre practitioners, choreographers, and directors. It is located at the heart of three vibrant cultural centers in London, Bristol, Leeds, and the Conservatoire schools. Within the Conservatoire, there is a balance between the art forms of dance, drama, circus arts, and classical and contemporary styles. Internationally renowned centers of training, our schools are also creative laboratories: we bring in national and international artists to work with our students and support emerging writers, directors, and choreographers in creating and showcasing new work. Students at our schools value the immersive experience of conservatoire training and its unparalleled access to the performing arts industries. Student satisfaction and teaching are rated consistently high in the National Student Survey. Each school has an established record of training its students to a professional standard, with excellent employment rates in dance, drama, or circus. Together, we provide a pipeline of expertly-trained performing arts professionals working in the UK’s lucrative creative industries and helping to build the UK’s international reputation. The Conservatoire is a publicly-funded institution. This means that our UK and EU students are eligible for government loans and grants (Student Finance) and financial support provided by the Conservatoire and the individual schools. Although applications are made directly to the school, and not through UCAS, our students can obtain government financial support in the same way as students from any other university. We recruit based on talent and potential, irrespective of background, and we audition or interview every eligible applicant. Celebrating diversity and working to achieve the creative potential in all our students is at the heart of the work of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. We are committed to training and supporting the most talented students, regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion. Applicants to the Conservatoire schools are chosen solely based on their talent and potential to develop the skills required for their chosen profession. The Conservatoire aims to meet, and where possible exceed, its legal obligations regarding equality and diversity. To fulfill this aim, the Conservatoire has established an Equality and Diversity Group comprising Conservatoire staff and representatives from all eight schools. View full university

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a national and international center of excellence for performing arts education. Building on our roots in 1847 as a national academy of music, we are now one of the world's most multi-disciplinary conservatoires, offering specialized and intensive teaching in dance, drama, music, production, and film. We welcome over 40,000 members of the public every academic year to watch our talented and passionate students perform on stage. Please use this website to find out more about the Royal Conservatoire – here, you will find information about all of our programs, summer schools, widening access programs, performances, and hopefully learn what it is like to be a student here RCS. We invite you to look at the Digital Hub, in particular, to find out more about what makes RCS distinctive and like nowhere else. First and foremost, our students train to achieve excellence in every way in their chosen specialism. But they are also exposed to a wide variety of influences, approaches, and attitudes, from one another and through the wealth of experiences we ensure they encounter at the Conservatoire. Our new artists are being prepared to become an active part of the creative communities they join. We believe our facilities are amongst the best in Europe. In 2011 we expanded our facilities and opened our state of the art dance, production, and ensemble rehearsal studios, The Wallace Studios, joining Scottish Opera and the National Theatre of Scotland. It is just a ten-minute walk from Renfrew Street. In May 2014, phase two of this development opened with eight new large multi-purpose ensemble studios, apt for all our specialisms and trans-disciplinary work, keeping our facilities ahead of our contemporaries. All these are backed up by the latest IT and digital technologies. Our students receive a rich tuition experience at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. We have the most significant number of full-time staff of any British conservatoire, and all our teaching staff is practicing professionals in their own right. We are also reliable in our international reach. Our visiting International Fellows are some of the most renowned artists in their field and come to work with our students several times a year. Through Masterclasses and workshops, our students are privileged to receive their tuition and inspiration. Equality and Diversity are of central importance to our working ethos. Performance is our purpose at the Royal Conservatoire. The nurturing and development of the individual creative potential inherent in every member of our community, staff, and students alike lies at our efforts' very heart. In turn, this means that the unique identity of every single individual who works or studies here is valid and is valued and respected. We welcome a diverse population of staff and students. Further, we are committed to promoting equality in all of our activities. We aim to provide a performing, learning, teaching, working, and research environment free from unlawful discrimination against applicants, staff, and students on the grounds of gender (actual or perceived), sexual orientation, disability, race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, marital status, age, and actual or perceived religious or similar belief. The Conservatoire fosters learning, teaching, research, and working culture, which supports Diversity, inclusion, and equity and requires those principles. We are thoroughly committed to promoting equal opportunities across all of our functions and practices, including learning and teaching, employment, representation, decision making, and procurement and partnerships. Our Equality and Diversity Forum consists of students and staff from across the institution. This forum is active, is honest, and has an impact. It represents our genuine commitment to this crucial aspect of our community and its daily life. View full university

The Ural Conservatoire – the oldest musical establishment in the Urals and Siberia – is a creative and scientific center of the vast area. It participates in large-scaled concert activity and professional training of musicians (performers, teachers, composers, researchers, and specialists in educational methods) – who work in different fields of musical culture. The Ural Conservatoire was founded in 1934 and became the first musical institution to the east of Volga district. It was Yekaterinburg's high status (Sverdlovsk since 1924) as the Ural capital and the existence of musical college (set up in 1916) on the Russian Imperial musical society that brought to choose the city the place of the Conservatoire. One of the most beautiful buildings – the stone architectural monument of the 1730s and reconstructed in classical style according to M.P. Malakhov's project in 1830s was allocated to it. In 1967 the Conservatoire received an annex and later an inner court and then appeared the Bolshoy Concert Hall (Big) that was the second to the Maly Concert Hall (Small) named after S. Prokofiev who had performed there in 1935. Nowadays, musical education in the Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatoire is provided at the 16 chairs, baccalaureate, specialization degree, master's degree, post-graduate course, and assistance-probation period instrumentalists. Teachers' staff is a particular pride of the Conservatoire: about one hundred specialists (90%) have academic degrees of professors and associate professors (26), honorary titles of People's and Honoured Artists, Honoured Workers of Art (53). At the origins of the Conservatoire, there have always been outstanding musicians. European roots of the Ural institution went back to pre-revolutionary Russia, and its staff constituted representatives of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kyiv, Odesa, Tbilisi, and Moscow musical-dramatical and Synod colleges as well as the Court Singing Capella. Later on, the graduates of the capital institutions arrived according to the obligatory for those years assignment of specialists. The Moscow Conservatoire had a particular task to be a patron of the young institution and provide its teachers' staff. The galaxy of those brilliant names appeared to be striking for the distant region! All those musicians became the founders of the performing and creative schools, having done honor to the Conservatoire. Among the founders, there were composer M. Frolov (the first rector) and V. Trambitsky (founder of the musical-theoretical school). View full university

The Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire is a well-established music conservatory that includes around 500 undergraduate and 80 postgraduate students. Within the 50 years of experience in music education, the Conservatoire has trained many talented vocalists and classical music performers, such as the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition First Prize winner Yulia Matochkina (soprano), 2007 Tchaikovsky Competition Third Prize winner Alexander Lubyantsev (piano), and other laureates of national and international contests. The Conservatoire's alumni have become successful solo performers and orchestra members in both Russia and abroad or work as music teachers worldwide. The Conservatoire was founded in 1967 as a branch of the oldest in Russia Saint-Petersburg Conservatory and became an independent institution in 1991. The Conservatoire offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in piano, voice and all orchestral instruments, conducting, composition, music theory, drama, and traditional (Finno-Ugric) music. The Conservatoire has cooperation agreements, exchange programs, and on-going music projects with universities and music institutes in Finland, Norway, Italy, China, and the USA. Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree programs in instrumental arts are currently offered to international students. All principal studies are delivered through a combination of one-to-one tuition complemented by performance classes, workshops, masterclasses, lessons from the Conservatoire's and visiting professors, ensemble activities, seminars, and lecture series the approved study plans. The Conservatoire's students enjoy various performance opportunities, including orchestral and choral projects, chamber music and solo opportunities, and performance in jazz and classical ensembles. The Conservatoire resides in the center of Petrozavodsk's city in the renovated building with the recent extension of the 400-seat concert hall designed for classical music festivals, concerts of symphonic music, and chamber music. Also, the Conservatoire contains the 60-seat Recital Hall and the 40-seat Opera Studio and rehearsal spaces for orchestras and ensembles, practice rooms, and space for one-to-one and group teaching. The Conservatoire has over 100 pianos, including Steinway grand pianos and digital organs Allen and Johannus, and instrument storage. The dormitory of the Petrozavodsk State Glazunov Conservatoire is available for all international students and is located within a 10-minute walking distance from the Conservatoire. The Conservatoire's main fields of expertise are developing and implementing undergraduate and postgraduate study programs in music (instrumental performance, conducting, vocal, music composition, the theory of music, traditional music, jazz, drama), the arrangement of music festivals and competitions, training programs and seminars, concerts, and masterclasses carrying out scientific research and publication in the field of music, etc. Its more than 4000 graduates work in Russia and many other countries worldwide - Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belorussia, Ukraine, Israel, China, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the USA. View full university

The Kazan State Conservatoire, named after N. Zhiganov (Academy), was founded in 1945. The graduates of Moscow and St. Petersburg conservatoires laid down the best Russian professional musical education traditions in this institute of higher education. Preservation and development of pedagogical traditions make security in the training and education of new generations of talented musicians. In the conservatoire, they are teaching such people as I.S. Dubinina (the class of J. Zak and L. Oborin), N.A. Fomina (the class of G. Neigauz), V.A. Stolov (the class of E. Ghilels), E.V. Burnasheva (the class of E. Monaszon), R.K. Abdullin (the class of L. Roisman), V.A. Afanasyev (the class of U. Jankelevich), M.G. Akhmetov (the class of D. Tzyganov), V.G. Lukyanov (the class of S. Kazachkov), L.V. Brazhnik (the class of M. Tarakanov), Z.D. Sungatullin (the class of Z. Bayrasheva), A.L. Maklyghin (the class of U. Kholopov), V.R. Dulat-Aleev (the class of E. Sorokina), R.A. Khalitov (the class of A. Tikhonov, F. Mansurov), S.M. Khabibulin (the class of I. Musin). Kazan conservatoire is one of the leading ones among institutes of higher education in the Russian Federation. Educational programs are realized on eight faculties and 20 subdepartments, where are getting trained about 700 students and postgraduate students from different regions of Russia and China, Korea, Japan, and the USA. Such students' teams as a symphonic orchestra, choir, opera workshop, chamber orchestra, folk orchestra, the orchestra of Kazan conservatoire "Tatarica"- make good progress take an active part in the concert activity. Many of them performed abroad repeatedly. The conservatoire is the center of international, All-Russian, regional, and republic competitions, festivals, conferences, workshops, which occur in the republic. Such international festivals as "Pianoforum," "Organo Pleno," Kazan Choir Assembly, the competition of singers and folk instruments performers by S. Saydashev, the competition of chamber singers accompanists by R. Yakhin, and others became traditional ones. During many years such experts of the art of music as L. Kremer, S. Stadler, S. Roldughin, A. Bonduryansky, and others visit the conservatoire with their concerts, master classes, and methodological help. During the last decade, Kazan conservatoire secured its role as the region leading scientific center to study modern and traditional cultural problems. Since 2003 here operates the Dissertation Board by specialty of "Musical Art" 35 applicants from Kazan and other Russian towns are conferred by the academic degree of the candidate of Art Criticism. The faculty of additional professional training and the performing art history and theory subdepartment was opened here in 2007. Also, in 2009 here was opened the subdepartment of music applied technologies. Kazan conservatoire's good progress and achievements are determined much by the high scientific, creative, and mastery level of the teaching staff. There are ten doctors of science, 36 professors, 31 candidates of science, 47 associate professors among 184 tutors. Thirty-three persons are conferred on Russian Federation dignities, 80 persons- on the Republic of Tatarstan ones, and 11- of Russia's national republic. Seventy-seven tutors are conferred on titles of laureates, All-Russia, and international competitions winners of an award. The Kazan State Conservatoire of music (Academy) named after N. Zhiganov means: The center of the musical culture of the multiethnic Volga and Ural regions, High-quality education, Competent performer teachers and scientists, The Dissertation Board on the academic degree of candidate of Art Criticism (specialty 17.00.02) Postgraduate study (full-time and correspondence tuition), One of the largest, among the Russian conservatories, musical library funds (about 450 000 units of issue: books, notes, audio, and video materials, audio disks), Editorial and publishing department, Four concert halls, A big concert 3-manuals organ of the "Flentrop" firm, Unique concert-enlightening programs. View full university

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a national and international center of excellence for performing arts education. Building on our roots in 1847 as a national academy of music, we are now one of the world's most multi-disciplinary conservatoires, offering specialized and intensive teaching in dance, drama, music, production, and film. More than 1000 students are currently pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at RCS across all of our specialisms. We also teach over 2000 part-time learners each year through our Junior Conservatoire and Lifelong Learning Department, opening up access to the arts to children, young people, and adult learners. Located in the heart of Glasgow city center, RCS is also a busy performing arts center with more than 500 public performances taking place across our five professional venues each year. We welcome over 40,000 members of the public every academic year to watch our talented and passionate students perform on stage. Please use this website to find out more about the Royal Conservatoire – here; you will find information about all of our programs, summer schools, widening access programs, performances, and hopefully learn what it is like to be a student here RCS. We invite you to look at the Digital Hub, in particular, to find out more about what makes RCS distinctive and like nowhere else. First and foremost, our students train to achieve excellence in every way in their chosen specialism. But they are also exposed to a wide variety of influences, approaches, and attitudes, from one another and through the wealth of experiences we ensure they encounter at the Conservatoire. Our new artists are being prepared to become an active part of the creative communities they join. We believe our facilities are amongst the best in Europe. They include six professional performance venues, a high ratio of practice rooms per student, three recording studios, percussion studios, professional stage technology, four bespoke dance studios new studios for technical design, scenic art, set-building, and costume design and construction. We are based right in the center of Glasgow. We have occupied our home at Renfrew Street, just behind Glasgow's famous Sauchiehall Street, since 1987. Our six performance spaces and most of our program facilities are located here and a bustling café bar, where students from across the disciplines meet throughout the day. In 2011 we expanded our facilities and opened our state of the art dance, production, and ensemble rehearsal studios, The Wallace Studios, joining Scottish Opera and the National Theatre of Scotland. It is just a ten-minute walk from Renfrew Street. In May 2014, phase two of this development opened with eight new large multi-purpose ensemble studios, apt for all our specialisms and trans-disciplinary work, keeping our facilities ahead of our contemporaries. All these are backed up by the latest IT and digital technologies. Our students receive an extraordinarily rich tuition experience at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. We have the most significant number of full-time staff of any British conservatoire, and all our teaching staff is practicing professionals in their own right. We are also reliable in our international reach. Our visiting International Fellows are some of the most renowned artists in their field and come to work with our students several times a year. Through Masterclasses and workshops, our students are privileged to receive their tuition and inspiration. Equality and Diversity are of central importance to our working ethos. Performance is our purpose at the Royal Conservatoire. The nurturing and development of the individual creative potential inherent in every member of our community, staff, and students alike lies at our efforts' very heart. In turn, this means that the unique identity of every single individual who works or studies here is valid and is valued and respected. We welcome a diverse population of staff and students. Further, we are committed to promoting equality in all of our activities. We aim to provide a performing, learning, teaching, working, and research environment free from unlawful discrimination against applicants, staff, and students on the grounds of gender (actual or perceived), sexual orientation, disability, race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, marital status, age, and actual or perceived religious or similar belief. The Conservatoire fosters learning, teaching, research, and working culture, which supports Diversity, inclusion, and equity and requires those principles. We are thoroughly committed to promoting equal opportunities across all of our functions and practices, including learning and teaching, employment, representation, decision making, and procurement and partnerships. Our Equality and Diversity Forum consists of students and staff from across the institution. This forum is active, is honest, and has an impact. It represents our genuine commitment to this crucial aspect of our community and its daily life. View full university