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Music and Music Technology at Huddersfield
Music and Music Technology at Huddersfield
The centrepiece of the Music and Music Technology departments is the Creative Arts Building, a £15m, purpose-built, state-of-the-art facility which opened in July 2008. The building features a spacious, glass-enclosed, four-storey Atrium which is used for informal concerts, displays of student work, installations, and as a place for discussion and collaboration between students of various disciplines. The music teaching facilities in the CAB include:
Housed within the Creative Arts Building, Phipps Concert Hall is a flexible, multi-purpose space used for concerts, teaching, and rehearsals. It features seating for 120, a professional-quality recording studio, and two grand pianos including a brand new Steinway D. With adjustable acoustic curtains, the hall is particularly well suited for multichannel electroacoustic music.
The hall also features a 26 stop, two manual tracker action organ built by the firm of J.W. Walker. A very generous gift of Mr. Michael Phipps, it was designed as an historic copy of a late 17th century North German instrument, taking as its inspiration the famous Arp Schnitger organ at Steinkirchen. The organ is tuned to unequal temperament (Valotti).
St Paul's is a beautifully converted Georgian church built in 1829 that now provides a venue for a range of concerts, including the world renowned Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Converted from a church in 1980, the hall seats 400 and is the home of the majority of concerts within the department, including all large ensemble events. It houses a 3-manual 41-stop tracker-action recital organ (1977), two concert grand pianos, and a recording studio, and features outstanding lighting and sound-projection systems.
Huddersfield maintains one of the largest music technology studio systems of any university in Europe, with 16 world-class, single-user computer composition and recording studios; four 25-seat teaching labs; and a cutting-edge, SRIF-funded experimental research studio for sound spatialisation . Many of the studios rival professional-level facilities, with top of the line hardware and software. .
The music library, newly renovated in September 2008, houses a wide range of scores, recordings and videos, including extensive performing materials for solo, chamber, and ensemble music. It maintains print and digital subscriptions to all major music periodicals. The library includes listening stations, PCs, and four group listening rooms. The music library is particularly notable for its extensive collection of scores and recordings of 20th and 21st century music., and is constantly being expanded in response to requests by staff and students.
To search the Library catalogue, please visit the Computing and Library Services webpage
extensive Percussion Studio, enabling the department to undertake most styles of music and to cover the percussion requirements for the University orchestra, wind band, brass band, new music ensemble, big band, as well as the percussion ensemble. There is also an extensive library of percussion music consisting of solos, tutor books, compilations, ensemble material and recordings
2-manual French harpsichord, a copy of an original by Pascal Taskin (1764)