The Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello-Palazzo Pisani di VENEZIA (Venice Conservatory of Music) is a prestigious Italian conservatory, a member of the Socrates-Erasmus exchange program, founded in 1877 as the Marcello-Palazzo Conservatory of Music. It was founded in 1877 as the Conservatory of Music of Marcello, and later renamed as the Conservatory of Music of Benedetto Marcello in Venice, with a three-year undergraduate degree, traditional Italian music education (long academic structure, equivalent to our postgraduate degree) and two-year postgraduate program.