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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Type | School of Music and Acting | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Address | Jennens Road, Birmingham, B4, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 122 m (400 ft) AOD | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Construction started | August 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Completed | August 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | September 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Cost | £57 million | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner | Birmingham City University | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 26.4 metres (87 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Technical details | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Main contractor | Galliford Try | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England. It provides education in music, acting, and related disciplines up to postgraduate level.[2] It is a centre for scholarly research and doctorate-level study in areas such as performance practice, composition, musicology and music history.[3] It is the only one of the nine conservatoires in the United Kingdom that is also part of a faculty of a university, in this case Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham City University. It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools,[4] and a founder member of Conservatoires UK.
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.[5]