Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is part of Birmingham City University. This means that you benefit from the wide range of activities, services and support that are in place to serve the university’s 24,000 students. Birmingham City University is based in the heart of the UK’s second-largest city, with all the social and professional opportunities that brings.

A short walk away from both New Street and Moor Street train stations, the Conservatoire has a central city location. It is also just metres from cutting edge media and recording facilities, including four TV studios and Europe’s largest static green screen, offering fantastic collaborative opportunities for students from different disciplines.

Our students are at the centre of the largest concentrated provision of creative arts education in the UK outside of London, with unparalleled opportunities for interdisciplinary work.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s £57 million teaching and performance facility offers unrivalled opportunities for our students. The Conservatoire is a world class environment that inspires and impresses. It attracts the most high calibre students, internationally renowned performers and teachers.

With complete AV digital interconnection as its backbone, it has enabled new ways of teaching, learning and practising. Our five performance venues and seven recording studios combine the best traditions of analogue performance with the flexible functionality of 21st century digital systems.

Among the many excellent facilities on offer are:

• Birmingham’s only dedicated jazz club
• An outstanding 500 seat concert hall
• Intimate 150 seat recital hall
• 100 practice and rehearsal rooms
• Organ studio
• Complete AV digital interconnection
• Seven industry standard recording studios
• A technical infrastructure unrivalled in the UK