Conservatorium van Amsterdam

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Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CVA), center

The Conservatory of Amsterdam ( Dutch Conservatorium van Amsterdam ) is the music academy of Amsterdam and as such part of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten .

history

It emerged from the merger of several previous schools. The Amsterdamsch Conservatorium founded in 1884 by the composers Julius Röntgen , Frans Coenen and Daniel de Lange , the Conservatorium van de Vereniging Muzieklyceum founded in 1920 and the Haarlems Muzieklyceum merged in 1976 to form the Sweelinck Conservatorium . This merged in 1994 with the Hilversums Conservatorium to form today's Amsterdam Conservatory . For a long time it was housed in the former building of the Reichspostsparbank Dutch Rijkspostspaarbank in the Van Baerlestraat in Amsterdam. At the end of 2008 it moved to a new building in the Amsterdam-Centrum district (district: Oosterdokseiland, on the Oosterdokskade) near the Amsterdam Centraal train station , near the public library (ABO) and the Nemo science museum . The new building comprises three concert halls ( Bernard Haitink Hall with 400 seats, Sweelinck Hall with 120 seats, Amsterdam Blue Note for Pop / Jazz with 200 seats) and a theater studio (50 seats). The architect of the building is Frits van Dongen.

Subjects are classical music , jazz , pop , early music , opera and music education .

Well-known teachers (historical)

Well-known graduates

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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 31.11 "  N , 4 ° 54 ′ 35.23"  E