Encompassing a senior music college and Junior Conservatoire, Birmingham Conservatoire is an international conservatoire, a full faculty of Birmingham City University and a major concert venue for many of Birmingham’s principal concert promoters and organisations, hosting over 300 events annually. Based in the heart of the city centre only a few minutes’ walk from Town Hall and Symphony Hall, we have some of the finest performing and teaching facilities in the country, including the renowned 520-seat Adrian Boult Hall, state-of-the-art Recital Hall recently customised for performance with live electronics, six recording studios and a specialised music library with around 100,000 individual scores and parts and 12,000 sound recordings.

Our expert and dedicated teaching staff educates and trains musicians to professional standards in solo performance, composition, chamber music, orchestral playing and jazz. We also work in collaboration with the University's Technology Innovation Centre (tic) to provide a degree course in Music Technology. Research at the Conservatoire is focused on the study of music in performance and we have a dedicated centre for research into Composition and Performance with Technology.

There are around 600 musicians studying on our undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes and our thriving Junior Conservatoire provides tuition to over 200 of the region’s most talented young musicians aged 3 to 18 in classical music, chamber music, North Indian music and jazz.

Birmingham Conservatoire is a part of Birmingham City University, one of the UK's largest and most proactive modern universities. Unique in the strength of its creative arts provision, the University is the only one in the UK to include an international conservatoire, a CDS-accredited drama school - Birmingham School of Acting, the largest art and design faculty in the UK outside London - Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and, within its School of English, the National Academy of Writing.

To find out more about Birmingham Conservatoire, visit www.conservatoire.bcu.ac.uk