General Information
The “Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory” is a degree-granting, public music academy that offers a full spectrum of performance, composition, and teachingprogrammes. It provides music training at bachelor level (in classical performance, jazz and pop performance, composition and music education) and at the post-graduate master level in composition, conducting, classical performance, jazz and pop performance, music education and musicology). We also collaborate with other academic institutions of the Campania Region, offering a doctoral degree in musicology jointly with the University of Salerno and, more recently, a new graduate programme in theories and techniques in music therapy in collaboration with Università di Foggia. Music therapy is also the field being explored in collaboration with the School of Medicine of the University of Salerno in our new interdisciplinary research laboratory. The Conservatory also offers a second level one year Master's degree in classical guitar that attracts students from all over Europe.
Our school is deeply committed to promoting healthy and productive teachingrelationships, ones in which faculty can at the same time inspire individual students and help them find a career path in music that is meaningful and suited to each of them. Our teaching staff includes winners of awards in international competitions, and musicians from the best Italian orchestras, including those of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Accademia Santa Cecilia and Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. We run workshops in fields as diverse as contemporary music, historical performance practice and opera, in which students enjoy unique opportunities to grow as artists by working together with professionals. In order to reinforce this aspect, each year we arrange for our opera and orchestra students to stage an important opera at the Avellino’s theatre and opera house, the Teatro Carlo Gesualdo, which is less than 200 metres from the Conservatory. Every year, the best composers and performers of the contemporary scene are our guests for Interferenze Festival.
The teaching faculty consists of 160 members, while approximately 700 students attend course each year. Our facilities include a concert hall with a seating capacity of 400 and a library which contains more than 18,000 volumes and is part of the wider SBN consortium, the Italian national library service of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. Our recording studio has more than 300 published records. Our composers' room has a spatialisation system with ATMOS diffusion.
The Cimarosa Conservatory is strategically located in the city of Avellino at the centre of the Italian peninsula. The Mediterranean sea, the vibrant city of Naples and the Amalfi Coast are at an hour's distance, with many other natural, cultural andtourist attractions of southern Italy easily accessible. At the same time the city itself offers a relaxed and friendly space in which students discover an open but safe and focussed learning environment.
