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.