Organizations

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a conservatory in New York City, United States, founded in 1917. It educates more than 1,300 students in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs.

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National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova

National opera and ballet theatre in Chisinau, Moldova. Founded in 1956 on the basis of earlier Moldavian music and drama companies, it stages opera, ballet and concerts.

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Saxon State Orchestra Dresden

Dresden-based symphony orchestra founded in 1548 by Elector Maurice of Saxony. It is regarded as the world's oldest orchestra and serves as the resident orchestra of the Saxon State Opera.

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University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

State university of music and performing arts in Munich, Germany. Founded in 1846, it is one of Germany’s largest cultural-sector universities and trains musicians, dancers and theater professionals.

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Vienna State Opera

Austria's largest opera house and a leading center of the German-speaking opera world, located on Vienna's Ringstrasse. Its current building opened in 1869.

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Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

Polish symphony orchestra based in Warsaw and the orchestra of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. Founded in 1901, it is one of Poland's leading orchestras.

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Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia

Russian symphony orchestra based in the Grand Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia. Founded in 1931 in Leningrad, it performs the core classical concert repertoire.

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Bayreuth Festival

Annual summer opera festival in Bayreuth, Germany, devoted to Richard Wagner's music dramas. Founded by the composer in 1876, it is the world's oldest opera festival.

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Cleveland Orchestra

American symphony orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1918, it is one of the United States' “Big Five” orchestras and performs at Severance Hall.

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Deutsche Oper Berlin

Deutsche Oper Berlin is an opera house in Berlin. Founded in 1912 as the opera theater of Charlottenburg, it is one of the city’s principal opera institutions.

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Emils Darzins Music School

Emils Darzins Music School is a Latvian specialized secondary music school in Riga, founded in 1945 to educate highly gifted children with both music and general studies.

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Geneva Conservatory

The Geneva Conservatory is the oldest conservatory in Switzerland, founded in 1835 in Geneva. It includes schools for amateur and professional musicians.

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Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media

Public university of performing arts and media in Hanover, Germany. Dating to 1897, it trains musicians, actors and media professionals across music, theatre and related fields.

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Moscow Regional Basic Music College named after A. N. Scriabin

Music college in the Moscow region of Russia and one of the country’s leading secondary specialized music schools, with strong performance and teaching traditions.

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Moscow State Institute of Culture

Russian state higher education institution in Khimki, near Moscow, training specialists in culture and the arts. Founded in 1913 as library courses.

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Moscow State Schnittke Institute of Music

Moscow State Schnittke Institute of Music is a higher music education institution in Moscow, founded in 1918 as the First People's Music School.

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Novosibirsk State Conservatory

Novosibirsk State Conservatory is a higher music school in Novosibirsk, founded in 1956. It was the first such institution in Siberia and remains the only conservatory east of the Urals.

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Semperoper

Semperoper is the Saxon State Opera in Dresden, Germany, one of the country's oldest and most important opera houses, tracing its origins to Dresden's first opera theatre of 1667.

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State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia

The State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia is a leading state chamber orchestra in Moscow, founded in 1956 by Rudolf Barshai and performing repertoire from all eras and styles.

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Sverdlovsk Music College named after P. I. Tchaikovsky

Sverdlovsk Music College named after P. I. Tchaikovsky is a secondary specialized music school in Yekaterinburg, Russia, founded in 1916 and training performers, singers, and conductors.

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Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre

Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre is Georgia’s largest music theatre, an opera and ballet house in Tbilisi founded in 1851 and named for Zakaria Paliashvili.

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Utrecht Conservatory

Dutch conservatory in Utrecht, founded in 1875 as a music performance school. Since 1987 it has been part of the Utrecht School of the Arts.

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V. S. Popov Academy of Choral Art

State choral music academy in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1991 from the Moscow Choral School. It provides primary, secondary and higher music education.

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Elizabethan Institute

A Moscow educational institution for daughters of nobles, military families, merchants and clergy, founded in 1825 to educate poor girls, mainly orphans.

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Georg Ots Tallinn Music School

Georg Ots Tallinn Music School was a state secondary specialized music school in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 1944. It offered classical and popular music programs.

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Hungarian State Opera

Hungary's largest opera house, based in Budapest. Founded in 1884 in a Neo-Renaissance building by Miklós Ybl, it is also the principal stage of the Hungarian National Ballet.

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Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Israel's leading symphony orchestra, founded in 1936 in Tel Aviv as Palestine's first major permanent orchestra at violinist Bronislaw Huberman's initiative.

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Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

Lithuania's higher education institution for music and theatre, based in Vilnius. Founded in 1933, it trains musicians, actors and other performing arts specialists.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1919, it performs at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.

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Moscow Regional Philharmonic

The Moscow Region's state philharmonic organization, founded in 1943 and reestablished in 2013, presents symphonic, chamber, opera, choral, folk, and popular music.

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Musa Jalil Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theatre

Major opera and ballet theatre in Kazan, Tatarstan, and one of Russia's largest. Founded in 1939, it presents world classics, Russian works and music by Tatarstan composers.

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National University of Music Bucharest

Bucharest's only university specializing in music education, founded in 1864 as the Conservatory of Music and Declamation. It trains music professionals.

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New England Conservatory

New England Conservatory is the oldest independent conservatory in the United States. Founded in 1867, it is a Boston music school and a National Historic Landmark.

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Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Major opera and ballet theater in Odesa, Ukraine, and one of the country’s largest. Founded in 1810; the present Vienna Baroque building by Fellner and Helmer opened in 1887.

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Orchestre de Paris

The Orchestre de Paris is a French symphony orchestra founded in 1967 and based in Paris. It performs primarily at the Philharmonie de Paris.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

London symphony orchestra founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946. It tours widely and is sometimes described as Britain's national orchestra.

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Salzburg Festival

The Salzburg Festival is a major annual summer music festival in Salzburg, Austria, founded in 1920. It presents classical concerts and music-theatre performances.

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Schola Cantorum de Paris

Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private conservatory in Paris, founded in 1894 as an alternative to the Paris Conservatory, with an emphasis on opera.

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Synodal School of Church Singing

Moscow ecclesiastical music school under the Holy Synod, founded in the 1860s. It trained boys in church singing, choral conducting and music until 1918.

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Abai Kazakh National Opera and Ballet Theatre

Opera and ballet theatre in Almaty and one of Kazakhstan’s leading stages. Founded from a music studio organized in 1933 and granted national status in 2020.

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Alexander Spendiaryan National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre

Opera and ballet theatre in Yerevan, Armenia, founded in 1933. A major cultural center of the capital, it is named after composer Alexander Spendiaryan.

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Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall

A state concert institution in Baku, Azerbaijan, founded in 1936 and named for Muslim Magomayev. It presents symphonic and other musical performances in a historic hall.

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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

A leading German radio symphony orchestra based in Munich, founded in 1949 from an earlier radio orchestra. It is one of the city’s three principal orchestras.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC's principal radio orchestra and one of the United Kingdom's leading symphony orchestras, founded in 1930 to perform classical music for broadcasts and recordings.

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Bucharest National Opera

Bucharest National Opera is a Romanian opera and ballet theater in Bucharest, founded in 1921. It is one of Romania's main lyrical performing arts institutions.

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Cleveland Institute of Music

The Cleveland Institute of Music is a private conservatory in Cleveland, United States, founded in 1920. It trains performers, conductors, collaborative pianists, and music educators.

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Estonia National Opera

Estonia National Opera is an opera and ballet theatre in Tallinn, Estonia. Tracing its history to 1865, it is the oldest Estonian theatre in the city.

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Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar

German higher music school in Weimar, founded in 1872 as the Weimar Orchestra School, the country’s first institution focused on orchestral rather than solo training.

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