The Sichuan Conservatory of Music (SCCM, ), founded in 1939, is an interdisciplinary music institution in

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. SCCM is one of the select conservatories authorized by the State Council to confer graduate degrees to its music and fine arts majors.

Facilities

SCCM runs its own symphony orchestra, philharmonic orchestra, concert wind orchestra, Chinese traditional orchestra, college choirs, and pre-college ensembles. The conservatory holds hundreds of concerts throughout the year and regularly invites distinguished guest artists and teachers from around the world. Every two years, the school hosts an intensive international piano festival, where students work with world-renowned artists such as

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and Boris Berman. Provincial and municipal leaders have attached great importance to the development of SCCM. The government is in the process of constructing new concert halls on the existing conservatory grounds, as well as around the city of Chengdu.

Awards

Thousands of students from SCCM have won prizes at home and abroad, including over 430 international prizes. In 2000,

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won first and fourth place respectively in the “14th International Chopin Piano Competition." In 2005,

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won third place in the “9th Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition." In 2006,

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won third place in the “51st International Violin Competition 'Nicolo Paganini'". The school's national key research projects such as “Research on the musical instruments of minority groups in southwest China” and “Research on the southwest Silk Road” have also yielded great achievements.

Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts

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shares facilities with SCCM at its

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Campus.

References

External links

SCCM official website
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Facilities

Awards

Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts

See also

References

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