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West Road Concert Hall, University of Cambridge
With 19 academic and research staff, more than 20 affiliated lecturers, approximately 200 undergraduates and 70+ postgraduate students, the Faculty of Music lies at the heart of a vast network of musical study, research and practice. As a highly rated research centre, our areas of special expertise include medieval and renaissance music, early modern music, nineteenth-century music, opera, popular
With 19 academic and research staff, more than 20 affiliated lecturers, approximately 200 undergraduates and 70+ postgraduate students, the Faculty of Music lies at the heart of a vast network of musical study, research and practice. As a highly rated research centre, our areas of special expertise include medieval and renaissance music, early modern music, nineteenth-century music, opera, popular music, ethnomusicology, performance studies, composition, and scientific approaches to music: research students, postdoctoral fellows, college lecturers and distinguished international visitors work on a dizzying variety of topics.
All the Faculty’s teaching and much of its research is housed in the purpose-built University Music School at West Road, close to the University Library. Designed by Sir Leslie Martin and dating from the late 1970s, it is structured round a 500-seat Concert Hall renowned for its superb acoustic qualities which houses both professional concerts and student music-making, while a Recital Room is used for smaller events and rehearsals. An extension to the building, completed in 2002, houses the Centre for Music and Science, whose dedicated facilities include a fully equipped recording studio, a computer room, and research spaces.