Elisabeth University of Music

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Located in a safe and convenient district in the center of Hiroshima, the city of peace, Elisabeth Universityof Music is fully equipped with many facilities including a large concert hall with a pipe organ, a small concert hall ideally suited for chamber music and many rehearsal rooms.
One of the distinctive features of Elisabeth University of Music, as the first private music university ...in Japan to establish a doctorate program, is its comprehensive level of education. In compliance with the principles of a Jesuit catholic education, the school is run in an intimate manner with small classes allowing for close relationships with teachers. Our staff include internationally renowned performers and very accomplished teachers, most of whom have studied abroad. They are therefore more than able to understand the feelings and concerns of our foreign students.
Most of our foreign students are of a very high caliber with strong motivation and a keen desire to pursue their studies. Some have won domestic competitions and awards and many have graduated from our doctoral program.
Elisabeth University of Music is a Catholic school with a student body of about 600, 35 full-time and 100 adjunct faculty, offering professional education in music at the　undergraduate and graduate levels. The University consists of the Undergraduate Faculty　of Music, the Graduate Division and the University Library. 53 faculty teach in the Graduate　Division, where enrollment is limited to about 80. All programs, both undergraduate and　graduate, are co-educational.
Elisabeth University of Music traces its roots back to the Hiroshima Evening Music School,　a small Quonset hut built in September, 1947 on the ruins of a town still bleeding from the　wounds of the atomic holocaust. The founder of the school, Jesuit Father Ernest Goossens,　set out on this new venture in the chaos of post-war Japan, when all sense of direction　seemed to have been lost. He saw in the school a unique tool to give the young a new 　élan in their quest for beauty and the attainment of truth through the arts.
The ultimate aim of university research is the overall formation of human society and, accordingly, the personal formation of each individual. Since the arts are important for personal development and expression, as well as for union among people so as to open a path toward union with God, this university places great emphasis on the formation of each individual through the arts, and especially through music.
Thus, through devoted guidance and research in the theory and practice of the musical arts, it aims at imparting broad knowledge and at forming musicians of good sense.

• This university was established and rooted in the spirit of Catholicism, which serves as its guiding principle.
• This university, faithful to the educational policy of the Society of Jesus, gives great importance to general education and foreign languages.
• The educational cornerstone of this university is its close bond with each individual student in a familial atmosphere, based on the conviction that all people are brothers and sisters of one another.
• A major characteristic of this university, not seen elsewhere, is guidance and research in Gregorian chant, polyphony, and contemporary religious music, in addition to the other usual musical genres.
• This university enjoys the support of friendly international relations and has as its ultimate mission the fusion of traditional Japanese culture and Western civilization.
• The ultimate educational ideal of this university is to arrive at a spirit of mystical contemplation through the musical arts.