The 75-year history of the university is a proud period during which it has been developed into the highest seat of learning Juche-oriented musical art under the warm care of the peerlessly great persons and produced lots of talented musicians loved by the people in hearty response to the music-based policies by the Workers' Party of Korea.

Founded on March 1, Juche 38 (1949) under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, the university has produced numerous musicians who made an active contribution during the stirring periods of postwar reconstruction and socialist construction.

Chairman Kim Jong Il personally led the university to fulfill its mission as a pedigree establishment for training revolutionary and talented reserve musicians and gave it a new name.

Under the care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who attaches special importance to the musical art education and makes sure that the university gives firm continuity to the traditions of Juche-oriented art, the university has made new headway in perfecting its educational system and steadily developing the contents, forms and ways of education.

The university's feats and proud achievements are recorded in the history of the development of the Juche-oriented musical art.