Founded in 1939, Sichuan Conservatory of Music has developed into an interdisciplinary higher education institution with comprehensive art subjects, excellent teaching staff, well-equipped teaching facilities and distinguished teaching achievements.
    SCCM is authorized by the State Council to confer Master’s Degree to all the music and fine arts majors. Subjects as composition, theory of composition and keyboard instruments are the provincial key subjects; and courses as composition, piano, voice and stringed art are provincial key courses. The national key research projects as “research on the musical instruments of minority groups in southwest of China” and “research on the southwest Silk Road” have yielded great achievements. “Comparison research on north and south silk road music culture” and “comprehensive development and utilization of Sichuan Beichuan Qiang and Pingwu white horse Tibetan folk art” are being implemented.
    Since the Reform and Opening-up Policy practiced in China, over 5000 people in SCCM have won all kinds of prizes both at home and abroad, including over 483 international prizes. In 2000, Yundi Li and Sha Chen have won the first and fourth place respectively in the “14th International Chopin Piano Competition”. In 2005, Wen Wei has got the 3rd prize at the 9th Sibelius International Violin Competition. In2006, Ning Feng has got the 1st prize and other two prizes at the 51st Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy. The conservatory also has its own symphony orchestra, philharmonic orchestra, concert wind orchestra, Chinese traditional orchestra, college students’ chorus, and a middle school girl’s chorus. In the past few years, over 100 high-quality concerts were conducted.
    China’s ex-President Jiang Ze-ming made his two visits at our campus in 1994 and 2002 respectively, during which he was showed the outstanding performance of students and teachers. Both provincial and municipal leaders have attached great importance on the development of SCCM, coming to provide guidance and supervision for several times.
    We are now making joint efforts to build the Conservatory into Sichuan Art University with plausible advantages in aspects of scale, features, achievements and fame.

Subjects:
There is a consummate placement of subjects at Sichuan Conservatory of Music:
1. Composing and composition skill and theory;
2. Music performance: conducting, piano, accordion, electone, wind and strings, Chinese traditional musical instruments, voice, opera, music play, dancing and singing performance(Chinese classical dancing and Chinese folk dancing), vocal art marketing and management;
3. Musicology;
4. Music education;
5. Film and TV performance;
6. Art design, painting(including oil painting and Chinese painting), cartoon, sculpture, industrial design, environment art design, visual art design;
7. Broadcasting and presiding art, entertainment news, film and TV dubbing, network TV management, film and TV screenwriter-directing, film and TV makeup, fashion design, computer design;
8. Piano tuning and violin fabricating.
For more details, please refer to http://www.sccm.cn/english/subjects/index.asp

Living condition and climate:
Chengdu plain locates in the west of Sichuan basin, with an average altitude of 500 meters and an annual averaged temperature of 16℃, which is typical of sub-tropical climate. As a business, financial and IT center of south-west China, Chengdu City is the capital city of Sichuan Province and bears fame for its long history, unique culture, graceful landscapes and agreeable climate. SCCM is at Xinsheng Road, where there is convenient transportation, nice environment and excellent atmosphere for music study. The convenient transportation leads to various shopping malls or supermarkets and restaurants of western food, Sichuan food, muslin food, etc.
Covering a floor space of 267 acres, SCCM has a beautiful environment with rich artistic atmosphere. It has nearly 400 professors and associate professors with a student body of over 14,000. SCCM also possesses the biggest music and art literature library and audio-visual collection in southwest of China, a newly-built modern studio building, three-star SCCM Philharmonic Hotel and a plastic playground. The Conservatory offers students accommodation with telephones, televisions, desks, wardrobes, independent bathrooms and bathing facilities.

Contact Information:
Address: Chengdu Xinsheng Road No.6 610021
Tel: 86-28-85430297、85430876
Fax: 86-28-85430712
E-mail: sccmws@126.com
Website: http://www.sccm.cn