The conservatoire is formed by merging music faculties at the Fine Arts College under the Hue University and the Thua Thien-Hue Cultural and Fine Art School, and a number of research, training establishments and art troupes in Thua Thien-Hue province.

In addition to its regular training, the conservatoire has a special mission to carry out research on preserving and upholding traditional music genres, especially Hue’s royal music and the Gong culture of the Central Highlands, which have been recognised as oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO.

With such functions, the Hue Conservatoire of Music plans to coordinate with a Thai university in a project to train musical MAs and PhDs in its first international cooperation project.

The five-year project, lasting till 2013, aims to boost research into traditional and royal music, said the newly appointed director of the conservatoire, Truong Ngoc Thang, who was former rector of the Hue Fine Arts College.