National Conservatory of Music of Mexico

• Name — Escuela Nacional de Música (National School of Music) • Established — 1866 • Type — Public • City — Mexico City • Country — Mexico • Campus — Urban • Enrollment — Approximately 1,200 • Website — INBAL Official Page The Conservatorio Nacional de Música (CNM) (National Conservatory of Music, in Spanish) is a music conservatory located in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Mexico.

The Conservatory was founded on July 1, 1866, by the priest, teacher and choir conductor Agustín Caballero, with the support of the Mexican Philharmonic Society (Sociedad Filarmónica Mexicana) and Emperor Maximilian I. It is the oldest official school of music in Mexico City (the oldest conservatory in Mexico and in the Americas is the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, created in 1743), and it is the host institution of the oldest symphonic orchestra in the country (Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio Nacional, founded in 1881). Since March 18, 1949, its campus is located in the Polanco section of Mexico City in an architectural complex designed and built by Mario Pani. • Illustration — Front view of the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico.

• Juan Arvizu, lyric tenor. • Yael Bitrán, historian, translator, and musicologist • Carlos Chávez, composer and conductor • Julián Carrillo, composer, conductor and theorist • Nestor Mesta Chayres, lyric tenor • Plácido Domingo, opera singer and conductor • Blas Galindo, composer and conductor • Luis Garcia-Renart, cellist • Mario Lavista, composer and teacher • Eduardo Mata, composer and conductor • José Pablo Moncayo, composer and conductor • Jorge Federico Osorio, pianista • Carlos Prieto, cellist • Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor • Felix Carrasco, conductor • Silvestre Revueltas, composer and conductor • Antonio Castillo de la Gala, pianist and composer • Eduardo Diazmuñoz, composer, conductor and arranger • María Teresa Rodríguez, pianist • Javier Torres Maldonado, composer • Luis Humberto Ramos, clarinetist • Humberto Hernández Medrano, composer • Salvador Contreras, clarinetist • Ricardo Bernal, tenor • Saul Bitran, violinist • Rolando Villazón, tenor • Jose carlos de la vega basulto, pianist • Francisco de Paula León Olea, composer • Arturo Márquez, composer • Jorge Alejandro Fernández, trumpet, singing • Alfredo Daza, baritone • Verónica Tapia, composer • Gloria Tapia, composer, musicologist • Juan R. Ramírez Hernández, violinist, composer, conductor