The Chicago Conservatory College — not to be confused with The Music Conservatory of Chicago College of Performing Arts — was a music school specialized in advanced levels (or tertiary levels) of musical education based in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America, which operated between 1857 and 1981.
According to a letter written in 1997 by the Board of Higher Education, the college was in good standing at the time of closure.
[1] It was founded by musician and composer Robert Goldbeck (1839–1908)[2] in 1857 and is claimed to be the first music conservatory in the US.
[4] It is likely that the music school was founded under a different name, which was eventually changed into The Chicago Conservatory College.
[5] Soprano Olga von Türk-Rohn was dean of the voice department of the conservatory during the 1930s.