The Conservatorio Nacional de Música (National Conservatory of Music, in Spanish) is a music conservatory located in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico. History 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. Noted alumni Juan Arvizu, lyric tenor. 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 Noted professors (main discipline(s) indicated) Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster, music history Eliosa de Baqueiro, music history Gustavo Campa, composition and director of the Conservatorio Julián Carrillo, composition Carlos Chávez, composition Ernesto Enríquez, music history Blas Galindo, composition Rodolfo Halffter, composition, music theory Eduardo Hernández Moncada, choir conducting, piano, harmony, opera ensembles Candelario Huízar, harmony, counterpoint and analysis Mario Lavista, composition Agustín Loera, Mexican culture history Armando Luna Ponce, composition Manuel María Ponce, composition Carlos Vázquez, piano Laura Mendez Vicente T. Mendoza, music history José Pablo Moncayo, composition, conducting Salvador Novo, Mexican literature Julián Orbón, composition Angelica Morales von Sauer, piano Carlos Pellicer, Mexican literature Silvestre Revueltas, violin, chamber music, composition, conducting