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Music Centre

The University's Music Centre, based in the impressive Younger Hall in North Street, offers a warm welcome to all students interested in any branch of music whether as performers or listeners. The Centre provides a wide range of facilities open to students, staff and the local community, in return for a modest membership fee.  As well as a large concert auditorium which seats 900 people, there are eight individual practice and teaching rooms (open throughout the day and until 10pm several evenings a week), three group rehearsal rooms and a music technology studio.

The Centre possesses a large and varied selection of instruments which may be used or borrowed - pianos (both grand and upright), a harpsichord, woodwind, string and brass orchestral instruments, acoustic guitars and classical pipe organs - for composing, practising, rehearsing and performing music of every kind. Of special interest to composers is the music technology studio, which is equipped with computers, recording facilities, MIDI system, keyboards and a wide range of software, including the Sibelius composition package.

Individual tuition by accredited teachers is available from beginner to advanced levels in voice, piano, organ, guitar, saxophone, drums and a large number of orchestral instruments. The Centre awards a number of scholarships (instrumental, vocal and choral) to University students, covering the cost of music tuition for one academic year.

The Centre also hosts a range of groups, from orchestras, choirs and an opera company, to jazz bands and barbershop singers, and presents a varied programme of concerts, including five concerts each season by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, our Orchestra in Residence.

For students interested in studying Music as part of their degree, there are eight undergraduate modules available in a wide range of practical and theoretical subjects.