Birmingham and Midland Institute School of Music
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Former names
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Birmingham School of Music Birmingham Conservatoire |
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| Motto | Inspiring Musicians since 1886 |
| Type | Public, School of Music |
| Established | 1886 (as Birmingham School of Music) 1989 (as Birmingham Conservatoire) 2017 (as Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) |
| President | Sir Simon Rattle |
| Vice-president | Peter Donohoe |
| Principal | Julian Lloyd Webber |
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Administrative staff
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60 |
| Students | 700 |
| Location |
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom 52°29′02″N 1°53′11″W / 52.48389°N 1.88639°WCoordinates: 52°29′02″N 1°53′11″W / 52.48389°N 1.88639°W |
| Campus | Urban |
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Birmingham City University Conservatoires UK European Association of Conservatoires Federation of Drama Schools |
| Website | www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire |
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Conservatoire |
| Location | Eastside |
| Address | Jennens Road, Birmingham |
| Elevation | 122 m (400 ft) AOD |
| Construction started | August 2015 |
| Completed | August 2017 |
| Opened | September 2017 |
| Cost | £57 million |
| Owner | BCU |
| Height | 26.4 metres (87 ft) |
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| Material | Pale Buff Brick |
| Floor count | 1 (UG) 5(OG) |
| Floor area | 10,350 m2 (111,406 sq ft) |
| Lifts/elevators | 3 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Feilden Clegg Bradley |
| Services engineer | Hoare Lea |
| Civil engineer | White Young Green |
| Main contractor | Galliford Try |
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England. It provides professional education in music, acting and related disciplines up to postgraduate level, and is a centre for scholarly research and doctorate-level study in areas such as performance practice, composition, musicology and music history. It is the only one of the nine conservatoires in the United Kingdom that is also a faculty of a university, in this case Birmingham City University.
The conservatoire houses a 500-seat concert hall and other performance spaces including a recital hall, organ studio and a dedicated jazz club. It was founded in 1886 as the Birmingham School of Music, the first music school to be established in England outside London. Birmingham is also home to two other concert venues – Town Hall and Symphony Hall. As a result, Birmingham Conservatoire experiences a constant stream of distinguished visiting soloists and tutors.
A conservatoire education is heavily weighted towards practical learning and performance, and provides the opportunity for each student to use the specialist professional training on offer to develop a career in music. Students are able to take part in collaborations made available by links with the major concert venues in the city, including the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO).
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire was founded in 1886 as the Birmingham School of Music, grouping together into a single entity the various musical education activities of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. The institute had conducted informal musical instruction from its foundation in 1854, and its predecessor organisation the Birmingham Philosophical Institution had held music classes since 1800, but it was in 1859 that music was established as a formal part of the institute's curriculum. In that year singing classes were begun which – after some initial struggles – by 1863 had 110 students and were performing regular concerts. In 1876 a proposal was heard at the institute's council that further classes should be established on the model of the Leipzig Conservatoire, and that year the composer Alfred Gaul began teaching classes in the theory of music. In 1882 instrumental classes were started, attracting 458 students on their first year, and a separate music section created within the institute. This was established as the separate "School of Music" in 1886, with as its first principal.
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