Kazan State Conservatoire, founded in 1945, is the main musical educational institution in Tatarstan,. Its founders were graduates from Moscow and Leningrad conservatories, but the first rector was the well-known composer Nazib Zhiganov. Now the Professor Rubin Abdulin, who earlier opened now famous organ class, occupies this post.

Nowadays Kazan Conservatory is one of the leading musical educational institutions in Russia., providing tuition in piano, organ, strings, wind, percussion, and traditional instruments. All of these are being taught to foreign students and post-graduates. The conservatory also runs various concert activities.