Xinghai Conservatory of music

Located in Guangzhou, the cultural center of Lingnan, Xinghai Conservatory of music is the only higher music institution in South China. Its history of running a school can be traced back to "Guangzhou Conservatory of music", a professional music school founded by Ma Sicong and Chen Hong, pioneers of modern Chinese music education in 1932. In October 1957, it was rebuilt and renamed as "Guangzhou Conservatory of music", and in 1958, it was renamed as "Guangzhou Conservatory of music". In June 1981, with the approval of the State Council, "Guangzhou Conservatory of music" was upgraded to "Guangzhou Conservatory of music". In the same year, it obtained the right to confer bachelor's degree. In December 1985, in memory of Xian Xinghai, the people's musician, Guangzhou Conservatory of music changed its name to Xinghai Conservatory of music. In 1992, the people's Government of Guangdong Province appropriated special funds to build a "Xian Xinghai Memorial Hall" in the hospital. The name of the hall was inscribed by Comrade Jiang Zemin himself. Approved by the State Council in September 2003, he obtained the qualification of conferring master's degree.

After decades of schooling, our college is gradually developing and establishing a professional music education center in South China, facing the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, and radiating Southeast Asia. The discipline construction has also changed from a single teaching type to a teaching and research type. Our college has always taken inheriting and revitalizing national music culture, especially Lingnan Music Culture, as its own responsibility, with the construction of modern professional music education system as its development goal; in accordance with the modern education concept and talent concept, it takes cultivating excellent music professionals, teachers and popularization talents as its long-term mission.

At present, our college has 11 departments, including composition department, Musicology Department, modern music department, Piano Department, vocal music department, folk music department, orchestra department, music education department, pop music department, art management department and dance department, as well as graduate department, Music Research Institute, journal editorial department, music Psychology Laboratory, Lingnan Music Development Research Center, Lingnan Music exhibition hall and music science and technology experiment center The center, the Ministry of basic education, the College of continuing education, the affiliated secondary music school and three experimental orchestras (Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra and Chorus). They basically cover the theory of composition and composition technology, musicology research and music performance and other professional fields, forming a complete discipline system of teaching, creation, performance and academic research. At the same time, it has also formed different levels of running schools, such as technical secondary school, undergraduate and graduate students, and the running pattern of general higher education and adult higher education. Our college has two campuses, Guangzhou University Town and Shahe campus. There are more than 2700 students in general higher education and more than 1120 students in adult higher education.

There are 320 teaching and research personnel in our college, including 120 with senior titles, 158 with intermediate titles, and 78 with doctor's and master's degrees. They have formed a reasonable academic echelon in terms of age structure, educational background structure, professional title structure and professional structure, thus forming a graduate tutor team composed of senior professors and young and middle-aged experts with doctoral group as the main body.

In recent years, our college has also held the "National Conference on the work of music research institutes in art colleges and universities", "National Symposium on philosophy, aesthetics and Musicology", "American Music Week", "Symposium on Zhao Songguang's academic thought", "Symposium on Luo Jiuxiang's learning skills of Southern zither master", "Symposium on Solfeggio Teaching in art colleges and universities" and "National Music Review" And other important academic seminars. At the same time, Zhou Wenzhong, Yu Runyang, Yang Ruhuai, Jin Xiang, Zhao Xiaosheng, Jin Tielin, Guo Shuzhen, Deng Yun, Liu Gangji, Zhao Fangxing, Li Mingqiang, Li Qi, popova, Powell, as well as famous experts and scholars from the United States, Russia, France, Britain and Germany were invited to visit, lecture and hold various kinds of expert concerts. In addition, at the invitation of European, American and other countries, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, as well as domestic art colleges and universities, our college also sent Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra, choir, Chamber Orchestra, Yu Qiwei Guangdong music group and various experts to visit, perform and give lectures, and cooperated with the school of art of southeast State University of Oklahoma, the school of music of Georgia State University, and Nanyang Art College of Singapore Inter school exchanges have been established among art colleges and universities, including Le Salle College of art, Haydn Conservatory of music in Austria, Sydney Conservatory of music in Australia and Music Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

In terms of teaching reform, based on the principle of "optimizing the curriculum structure, updating the teaching content, reforming the teaching methods and improving the teaching level", the college has carried out a set of reform measures to cultivate multi-level and multi standard talents to meet the needs of the society, and achieved remarkable results. It has formed a multi-level curriculum system with professional courses as the core, professional basic theory and humanities courses as the basis, and art practice as the auxiliary. In terms of teaching contents and methods, we should timely absorb the latest academic research achievements in the field of music culture at home and abroad, update the teaching contents, break the traditional teaching mode, implement flexible and diverse teaching methods, and pay attention to the cultivation of students' learning ability, practical ability and innovation ability, so as to improve the quality of personnel training in our college. Since running the college, more than 6000 music talents have been sent to the society. Most of the graduates have become the backbone of art colleges, research institutions, literary and art groups, cultural media, enterprises and cultural management in South China. Some of them have become famous musicians and music educators at home and abroad. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates of our college has been in the forefront of colleges and universities in Guangdong Province, and has been widely concerned and praised by all walks of life.

Our college has 334 mu of practical teaching area, including 285 mu of Guangzhou University City Campus and 49 mu of Shahe campus. It has modern concert hall, audio-visual room, advanced recording studio, electronic music production center, all kinds of rehearsal hall, academic lecture hall, piano room building and other teaching facilities with complete functions and advanced equipment. With the support of the provincial Party committee and the provincial government, the main body of our college has entered the "Guangzhou University City" in 2005, and integrated into the multi-disciplinary human environment with nine institutions of higher learning such as Sun Yat sen University and South China University of technology, forming a reasonable ecological structure for the coordinated development of education, culture and nature, making our college the only music college in China to enter the "multi ecosystem". While enjoying this kind of resources, our college also plays its own unique function and role for the whole teaching ecosystem. In the next few years, our college will continue to follow the development policy of "grasping the construction, laying the foundation, improving the level and creating the characteristics", seize the opportunity, and constantly increase the education innovation, so as to make our overall school running strength step up to a new level.

Xinghai Conservatory of music

Nature of institutions: public

Education level: General Undergraduate

Location: Guangdong

Admission telephone: 020-393636, 36393666 (fax)

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