Academy of Music, University of Zagreb is the largest and oldest institution of higher music education in the Republic of Croatia. It is the direct successor of the music school of the Croatian Music Institute, founded in 1829, under whose patronage it began operating as a higher education institution in 1921. Since 1979, the Academy of Music has been a constituent part of the University of Zagreb. Many renowned artists and educators have studied and worked at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, and through their contributions both domestically and internationally, they have helped spread and solidify its reputation for excellence in music education.

The Academy of Music aims to establish standards and benchmarks of value in all aspects of its operations in the field of higher music education and to become a music center with an international reputation, recognized as a desirable destination for study and work for students and professors from all over the world. The core values of this vision are the artistic and pedagogical quality of the teaching staff, innovation, and the continuous development of study programs, as well as the expansion of the professional competencies of our graduates. By ensuring the continuity and development of musical arts, the Academy of Music creates an artistic and intellectual elite of young musicians who, through their public activities, will influence the development of culture and the arts for the benefit of the entire society.

The high level of excellence and quality of education at the Academy of Music can be heard throughout the academic year at more than 300 concerts, productions, and events. In addition to its concert cycles, Vivat academia and Vivant professores in the new concert hall Blagoje Bersa and the organ concert cycle Anabasis in the Huml Hall, special attention should be given to two major concerts that the Academy of Music organizes as part of the "Saturday at Lisinski" cycle at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall. As part of its collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts, the Academy of Dramatic Art, the Faculty of Textile Technology, and the School of Design of the Faculty of Architecture, the Academy of Music regularly stages at least one opera premiere per year, which in recent seasons has been performed in cooperation with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. For years, students of the Academy of Music have performed as soloists with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, gaining their first professional experiences by playing in the orchestra’s concert cycles. In collaboration with the HGM (Croatian Musical Youth), the Academy of Music has also launched a concert cycle for children and young people with the aim of popularizing music and creating a new concert audience.

At the Academy of Music, teaching is organized into eight departments offering integrated undergraduate and graduate university programs, as well as postgraduate specialist studies and artistic training programs.

• I. Composition and Theory of Music Department
  
• II. Musicology Department
• III. Conducting, Percussion and Harp Department
• IV. Voice Department
• V. Piano, Organ and Harpsichord Department
  
• VI. String Instruments and Guitar Department
• VII. Wind Instruments Department
• VIII. Music Pedagogy and Tamburitza Department