Concert Room

The Concert Room is a multi-purpose space, and houses our larger instruments: two large Steinway grand pianos, the Peter Collins double-manual tracker-action organ, and the harpsichord. Many concerts, rehearsals, lectures and recordings take place here throughout the year.

Practise Facilities

Seven soundproofed practice rooms equipped with pianos and mirrors are located in one wing of the building. They are available for practise throughout the day and evening. For ensemble rehearsals the Seminar Room and Rehearsal Room (each equipped with a Steinway grand) and the Concert Room (with two Steinways, two harpsichords and organ) are available when not used for formal teaching. During semester the building is open from 08:30 to 22:30 on week days and from 09:00 to 21:00 at the weekend.

Electroacoustic Studios

There are four electroacoustic music studios designed for undergraduate and postgraduate composition and research. These are based around Apple Macintosh computers, Digidesign and MOTU hard disk editing systems, with outboard mixing and sound processing equipment, and a large variety of software for synthesis and sound transformation and control. Three of the studios can be linked to the Concert Room to function as a high quality digital recording facility. The studios are equipped with DAT, CD and MD recorders, Lexicon reverberation, Akai samplers, ATC active monitoring and other outboard equipment. A multi-loudspeaker sound diffusion system is used with a custom-designed 20 channel sound diffusion console for concerts of electroacoustic music. Portable sound recording kits are available to studio-based students enabling location or environmental recording.