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Our Facilities
Music Facilities are located at the heart of the main university campus on College Road. Available facilities include:
- 2 concert halls (Prichard-Jones Hall and Powis Hall)
- Recital hall (Mathias Hall)
- 14 practice rooms with pianos, several of them soundproofed
- Percussion practice room
- 5 studios equipped to international standards for composition, research and recording
- Library of over 3,000 CDs and 20,000 scores, as well as LPs, DVDs and online resources
- Common rooms
- Quiet study room
- Open-access computer room
- Postgraduate study room
- 2 organs
- 6 grand pianos
- 3 harpsichords
- Archive of Welsh Traditional Music
- Welsh Pop Archive
- A collection of over 300 world instruments
- 2 storerooms for student instruments
- Open-access kitchenette
- Accessible toilets and shower
Media facilities are primarily in John Phillips Hall overlooking the Menai Straits. Available facilities include:
- Studios & Suites
- Professionally equipped Radio studio
- Audio editing suites running Adobe Audition
- Digital video edit suites running Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express on Apple Macs
- Creative Writing, Journalism and New Media teaching spaces
- Cinema Space with Dolby Surround Sound
- Large performance space with professional theatre lighting facilities for rehearsal and performance work
- Professional equipment and computing facilities
- Video and Radio kits for use on location work in the field of radio and TV
- Multi Media computer room
- WIFI meeting place for students
All these facilities are available to you in addition to the University resources which you have access to as one of our students.