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The Como Conservatory of music was founded in 1982 as a separate section of Milan Conservatory, obtaining autonomy in 1996.
Composed by 70 teachers, the institute gathers 400 students in the traditional courses, over 100 in the three-year courses and 25 in the two-year courses. From 1989 it is in the prestigious building in Via Cadorna, built in the fifteenth century, restored by the City of Como in 1971.

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In addition to traditional courses, the Como Conservatory has the Academic courses (three-year of 1st level and two-year of 2nd level) in the point of view of the reform project and to make besides the Italian students, the Conservatory welcomes at the moment foreign students from Albania, South Korea, Swiss Confederation, Croatia, Germany, Japan, Greece, Guatemala, England, Malta, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Uzbechistan.
The activity in the institute is focused on three fundamental spheres: the didactics, the production and the musical research.

The Como Conservatory of music has six different INSTRUMENTAL GROUPS active:
  • The traditional Conservatory Symphony Orchestra formed by the students of the superior courses, extended to the medium course, the last performances have been Beethoven's 5th Symphony and 2nd Symphony by Brahms besides the collaboration with the Social Theatre in Como for the the performances of the operas by Manuel De Falla (project AS.LI.CO);

  • The Youth Orchestra, an unusual group formed from the lower courses, founded in 2000, last production dedicated to G. F. Handel, C. Monteverdi and A. E. Negri;

  • The “Elettrosensi Ensemble” founded in 1999, is dedicated to studying the possibilities offered from electro-sound technology, last production in Como dedicated to futurism; recently working in a reduced group, on the opera “Ancora un incendiario?” (Still an arsonist?) by G. Cospito performed in the Candiani Centre in Mestre (Venice);

  • The Big-Band Jazz, founded in 1998, which has had its concerts inserted in jazz exhibitions of regional or national importance;

  • A Baroque Instrumental Group with soloists and the choirs from the Conservatory. This group takes part in projects dedicated to the seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century music, we remind the great work in 2004 in the celebrations for the third anniversary of Francesco Spagnoli Rusca’s death, with operas by A. Vivaldi, D. Buxtehude and J. Pachelbel.
Como Conservatory Symphony Orchestra


CHORAL ENSEMBLES - The Choirs including two Laboratory Choirs for young students, the Madrigal Choir, the Choir of Pedagogic Department, a Opera Choir for Voice & Opera singers students

The Como Conservatory of music promotes many musical activities on place, we remember the main programs:
  • Sabati in musica - the traditional event that for years has attracted the public in Como on Saturday afternoon for a concert at 6,15 pm, in the auditorium in the Conservatory.

  • Polyphoniae - meetings dedicated to choirs and chorality, the only program of its kind organized by a Conservatory in Italy, that has reached in 2006 its eighth edition.

  • Elettrosensi - musical meetings and stage cared by the Electronic music and Baroque On Line Technology in Como – concerts and seminar dedicated to antique music.

  • Momenti musicali - students’ performances at the end of the Academy year.

  • The traditional Christmas Concert never misses (soloist, choir and instruments from the Conservatory) which is held in churchs in Como or nearby, besides many collaborations with pubblic or private corporations in Como and Lombardy region.
The internal didactic uses also instruments produced from the multimedia section from the Didactic and Experimental department.

The Library, also opened to the external public, besides the traditional service of consultation and loaning (about 12.000 book and sheet music) includes a listening room with multimedia station with Internet connection, and offers a listening service with score based on a collection of CD and DVD that now counts up to 4000 pieces.

If the world “concert” can go back to the Latin “concertare” (to compete) as to “conserere” (to knot, to interlace), then the challenge to train young professionals with work outles in the complex, technological, and multi-ethnic civil society of the third millennium, becomes for the Music Conservatory “G. Verdi” in Como the daily “Concert”, thanks to a strong cohesion in all its elements and to the quality of its teachers.