Music facilities

The music library houses a wide range of scores, recordings and videos, including extensive performing materials for solo, chamber, and is constantly being expanded in response to requests by staff and students. It maintains print and digital subscriptions to all major music periodicals. The library includes listening stations, PCs, and four group listening rooms. ‌

Also in the library, we keep The British Music Collection, an extensive collection of scores and recordings of 20th and 21st Century music. Scores of high profile composers such as Britten, Tippett, Birtwistle, Maxwell Davies, Cardew, Weir, MacMillan, Turnage and Adès are housed alongside those of emerging or lesser known composers.

‌The teaching facilities in the Creative Arts Building include: 

• Four 'smart classroom' lecture rooms outfitted with cutting-edge audio/video hardware and software;
• Two 24-seat Music Techonology Mac labs with MIDI keyboards and soundcards;
• One 25-seat PC lab

St Paul's Hall is a beautifully converted Georgian church built in 1829 that now provides a venue for a range of concerts by student soloists, ensembles and guest artists in the Music Department's annual concert series, Live at the University of Huddersfield. In November each year the Hall also hosts many of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival events – the Festival’s home is at the University of Huddersfield.

The building, which was renovated into a concert hall in 1980, seats 400 and houses a 3-manual 41-stop tracker-action recital organ (1977), (St Paul's Organ Specification (PDF)), two concert grand pianos, and a recording studio, together with outstanding lighting and sound-projection systems.

Phipps Hall, situated in the Creative Arts Building, is a purpose-built concert hall. It is used for all manner of performances, from organ recitals to popular music concerts and student performances in a vast range of genres and styles.

Phipps Hall also houses a 26 stop, two manual tracker action organ in German baroque style (pictured below) and a recent Steinway Model D piano. 

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