Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Former names Birmingham School of Music Birmingham Conservatoire Motto Achieve the Extraordinary 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 Stephen Maddock OBE [1] Administrative staff 100 Students 1200 Campus Urban Affiliations Birmingham City University Conservatoires UK European Association of Conservatoires Federation of Drama Schools Website www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire

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]