We have a bold vision: to create a cultural, artistic, research and musical hub with a dynamic atmosphere at our Clayton campus to benefit students, staff and the community.
The centrepiece of this vision is the creation of a new, iconic, state-of-the-art building for the School of Music.
The new building for the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music will encompass urgently needed facilities and equipment:
- 40 acoustically-flexible practice rooms (including many with pianos and ranging in size from small to large)
- 15 ensemble or chamber rooms of various sizes to support group and ensemble teaching, and performance assessments and auditions
- one main auditorium/concert venue to seat up to 800 people
- one outside amphitheatre with moveable staging, seating 600 people
- one chamber auditorium/concert venue to seat approximately 200 people
- a jazz club style venue, seating about 200 people
- one conference room
- recording studio
- approximately 20 office spaces — 15 soundproofed for teaching
- an undergraduate computer lab with 25 workstations
- lounges for undergraduates, postgraduates and staff
- a restaurant / cafe accessible to the Jazz Club and amphitheatre
Plus:
- various instruments for each practice and ensemble room, including two grand pianos for the auditoriums
- a moveable stage for outdoor concerts
