About Us
Encompassing a senior music college and Junior Department, 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 hundreds of events annually. Based in the heart of the city centre only a few minutes’ walk from 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 95,000 individual scores and parts and 10,000 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 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 Using Technology.
There are nearly 600 musicians studying on our undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes and our thriving Junior Department 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.
Running alongside our full- and part-time courses, an Education & Outreach Programme provides a focus for our music education activities and special projects in the local community and further afield.