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Xinghai Conservatory of Music
China

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Official website: https://www.xhcom.edu.cn/
Tel：020-39363636
Address：Main campus: No. 398, Outer Ring West Road, University Town, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Shahe Campus: No. 48, Xianlie Dongheng Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong
The predecessor of Xinghai Conservatory of Music was Guangzhou Music School founded in October 1957; it was established as Guangzhou Music College in September 1958; it merged with Guangdong Dance School to form Guangdong Art College in January 1966; it merged with Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in October 1970 It was the Guangdong People's Art Institute; in March 1978, it was renamed Guangzhou Music College; in June 1981, it was approved by the State Council and was established as Guangzhou Conservatory of Music; in December 1985, it was renamed Xinghai Conservatory of Music in memory of People's Musician Xian Xinghai. The school currently has two campuses, Guangzhou University Town Campus and Shahe Campus, covering an area of 186,292 square meters. The school has 20 teaching departments and 1 affiliated secondary music school (attached middle school). It has 1 Chinese excellent traditional culture inheritance base for general colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, 1 national college student cultural quality education base, and provincial general colleges and universities in humanities and social sciences. There are 4 key research bases, 1 provincial-level university excellent traditional Chinese culture inheritance base, 5 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 7 provincial-level teaching teams, and 3 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, forming a teaching, creation, It has a four-in-one schooling model of performance and research, and a school-running level that connects the attached high school, undergraduate, and postgraduate schools. As of March 2024, the school has 5,772 undergraduate general education students, 440 graduate students, 366 adult academic education students, and 819 students from the attached middle school. The school strives to build first-class disciplines and majors. "Music and Dance" is a key discipline in Guangdong Province. Among the 11 majors that have enrolled students, there are 5 nationalities in music performance, musicology, recording art, composition and composition technology theory, and dance performance. It is a construction site for first-class undergraduate majors at the provincial level and five provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors in art management, art and technology, dance choreography, dance studies, and performance (musicals). The discipline of "Music and Dance" has achieved leaps and bounds in the fifth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education and entered the first-class ranks in the country; the first round of national professional master's level evaluation ranked among the top art colleges. The school has strengthened the construction of first-class courses, with 2 courses selected as national first-class courses, 3 courses selected as provincial first-class undergraduate courses, and 8 projects recognized as provincial ideological and political courses. The school has become a key unit in the new round of doctoral program construction in Guangdong Province. The school insists on cultivating people with moral integrity and has a teaching staff with reasonable structure, excellent quality and determination to innovate. As of March 2024, there are 719 faculty members (including the attached middle school), including 114 full-time teachers with doctorate degrees and 21 foreign teachers. The school has also hired a number of well-known domestic and foreign experts and scholars such as Ye Xiaogang, Zhu Daming, Lu Wei, and Hu Shengnan as distinguished professors, and introduced high-level national talents such as Chen Xiaoyong and Wang Yunpeng. Since 2018, 36 national-level scientific research projects and 153 provincial-level projects have been established. A total of 879 papers were published in important journals in this subject field, of which 170 papers were included in authoritative journals such as CSSCI; 7 patents were obtained. In 2019, he won 2 Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Achievement Awards for Philosophy and Social Sciences, and in 2020, he won 2 second-class awards for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education. In the past five years, teachers have won more than 500 other awards at the provincial (municipal) level or above. The school adheres to the principle of openness in running schools and carries out in-depth and extensive foreign exchanges and cooperation. Since 2017, the school has actively responded to the national strategy and has taken the lead in establishing the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Music Education and Art Development Alliance" and organized the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Music Season", "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area College Students Art Festival" and "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Music Festival". "Greater Bay Area Primary and Secondary School Music Exhibition", "Musician's Music Season", "Zhou Wenzhong International Music Academic Symposium", "The First International Music Document Translation Symposium", "The First Chinese Piano Music Week", "2021 Zhao Songguang Academic Symposium" and other international Domestic high-end academic seminars and art exchange activities. We invite world-renowned experts and scholars as well as domestic celebrities to give lectures, hold concerts and master classes. In recent years, Chinese and foreign musicians who have visited and been appointed as honorary professors, honorary professors and distinguished professors include: Yo-Yo Ma, Ashkenazy, Rui Among them: Fleming, Wang Jian, Lin Zhaoliang, Ning Feng, Lang Lang, Yin Chengzong, Bao Huiqiao, Chu Wanghua, Liu Shikun, He Hui, Diliber, Wu Bixia, Dai Yuqiang, Liao Changyong, Shen Yang, Ye Xiaogang, Mo Hualun, etc. The school sends performance groups to visit and perform abroad. The school has established inter-school exchange relationships with 41 well-known art schools in Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school adheres to its position as a talent training center and develops the school with quality. We always take cultivating high-quality artistic talents as our mission, follow the school motto of "seeking truth, advocating beauty, advocating morality, and being dedicated", carry forward the "Xinghai Spirit", and cultivate a large number of high-quality talents with innovative spirit, practical ability and international vision. Art professionals. Since its establishment, the school has provided more than 33,000 artistic talents to the country. In the past five years, students have won more than 2,000 awards at the provincial (municipal) level or above in various professional competitions, including the Golden Bell Award, Tao Li Cup, Lotus Award, Wenhua Award, Domingo International Vocal Competition Award, and China Instrumental Music TV Competition awards, etc.; has been invited by the Ministry of Culture, CCTV, etc. to participate in major national cultural and artistic performances many times, and has received awards. The employment destination implementation rate of school graduates has ranked among the top three among universities in the province for three consecutive years. After more than 60 years of unremitting efforts by generations of Xinghai people, the school has now developed into a music and dance education center based in Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, serving the whole country and facing the world. It has won high praise from the society and has been recognized by party and state leaders. Absolutely. Entering a new era, the school fully implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implements the spirit of all plenary sessions since the 20th and 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and plans and advances the school's career with "Chinese pattern, world perspective, and Lingnan context" Reform and development, actively respond to and connect with the national “One Belt, One Road” initiative, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area strategy, and the strategy of culturally strengthening the province, adhere to dislocation development, characteristic development, connotation development, innovative development and international development, create first-class teaching staff, and cultivate First-class music and dance talents, launch first-class landmark results, build first-class disciplines, and strive to build the school into a first-class, world-renowned high-level music conservatory with Lingnan characteristics in China!