KM Music Conservatory (KMMC) is a

conservatoire A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger in ...

college founded

A. R. Rahman Allah Rakha Rahman (; born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967), also known by the initialism ARR, is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and philanthropist known for his works in Indian cinem ...

AR Rahman Foundation AR Rahman Foundation is a non-profit organization registered under FCRA. It was started in 2009 by Indian musician A R Rahman to raise funds for disaster relief and to provide education Education is the transmission of knowledge and sk ...

Located in Arumbakkam,

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, in the

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n state of

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, the conservatory offers a range of part-time and full-time courses in Hindustani and Western classical music and

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. Fathima Rafiq is the principal.

Faculty

Courses at KMMC are taught by an international group of full-time and part-time faculty from India, Europe and the US, specialising in musical performance, music theory and analysis, music history, musicology and music technology. Faculty experience includes professional work in the music industry as well as academic expertise in teaching and researching music in higher education. KMMC is developing a newly founded symphony orchestra, to serve as resident studio orchestra for AR Rahman's compositions and to perform for the general public in Chennai and elsewhere in India. In 2009 Sri Lankan composer

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and Bangladesh composer

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became the first international students to join KMMC.

KM College of Music and Technology

KMMC became a full-fledged college offering degrees and diplomas in 2013. Students of KM have participated for the great composer and its founder A. R. Rahman's many movie scores, concerts and Audio CDs. Their first-ever official release was '' Rhyme Skool with Katrina Kaif'' with Sa Re Ga Ma Productions and

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