History of Conservatory
The Conservatory of Music Malaga was created in 1880 to boost the Philharmonic Society of Malaga, served as its first director D. Eduardo Ocón and Rivas. Has been and is a center for teaching music first rank in the State, in which studies were conducted full course tailored to the requirements of successive laws apply these lessons in music, and whose importance suggests that it was one of six senior conservatoires available to the Ministry of Education in the sixties. Since its creation had its headquarters in the so-called Convent of San Francisco, built in the late fifteenth century and uninhabited after disentailment of Mendizábal. Then, the building served as the Lyceum of Malaga and the Málaga Society of Sciences, and in 1880 hosted the Conservatory of Music Maria Cristina, until his transfer in 1971.
It has been our Higher Conservatory of Music, as a result of their teaching and disseminationand promotion of music in the area of our city and its environment territorial influence, the generator and driving the creation in 1945 of the Symphony Orchestra Malaga, which has led to its permanent scheduling concerts a great hobby understood and responsive to the great symphonic music, which in turn, consistently showed the need for the establishment in 1991 of the Orquesta Ciudad de Malaga. The result of this activity our Conservatory of Music, today met in Malaga two symphony orchestras, a formal chamber orchestra, a chorus of opera, three choirs, a chamber choir, a children choir, five bands, and a wide range of small chamber groups. Alongside reality of this rich musical resources who work primarily in Malaga, it should be remembered the large number of alumni, instrumentalists and singers from Malaga who work for large audiences and theaters in the world, along with professors, first lecterns and a long list of other teachers in the orchestras of Radio Television, National City of Malaga, Seville Symphony and others.
