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King Charles Court provides music students with excellent facilities and a safe environment for studying and performing.

Blackheath Halls is a dedicated concert hall for music students, and musical theatre students also spend time training at our Laurie Grove building in New Cross.

King Charles Court

The building is open during term-time from 08.00h to 22.00h on weekdays and on a more restricted basis during weekends and holidays. The Peacock Room and Theatre Studio provide elegant and flexible recital and rehearsal spaces.

Performance and practice facilities

  • 100-seat Peacock Room
  • 100-seat Theatre Studio, with sprung dance floor
  • Elegant Stuart & Mackerras Rooms for chamber music
  • 80+ practice rooms
  • Dedicated suites for Brass, Composition, Early Music, Harp, Jazz and Percussion

Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts

Our Jerwood Library provides you with access to a range of materials and resources. It also houses some rare and unique collections – all available for study and research.

Music Technology

Trinity Laban has invested substantially in Music Technology and has provided state-of-the-art facilities for everyday student use.

Recording studio

The Recording Studio is designed to industry standards and features a large performance area and control room, digital mixing, Pro Tools and Logic Audio and true audiophile quality monitoring.

In addition to recording work, the studio is used to teach recording techniques and is available for composers to realise acoustic and electro-acoustic works.

Keyboard Laboratory

The Keyboard Laboratory provides a further thirteen networked Mac workstations with full size weighted-action electronic pianos all of which are equipped with Logic Audio, Sibelius and Auralia software. Composers also have use of the dedicated Composition Suite.

Student facilities

  • Swipe card system, lockers & CCTV system for safety
  • Lifts & ramps provide easy access for all

Trinity Laban is committed to providing easy access to all of its buildings. Lifts and ramps provide easy access to most spaces and we are constantly looking for ways to improve access. You can find out more about our disability policies here.

Student safety is a high priority and the Conservatoire employs full-time security guards in addition to operating swipe card and CCTV systems and security lockers.

Instrument collection

  • Calfskin, plastic and period Timpani, drum kits, Latin, African and European tuned percussion
  • All standard Wind and Brass orchestral doubling instruments
  • Large collection of period instruments including shawms, crumhorns, baroque flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, sackbutts and cornetti
  • Extensive collection of keyboard instruments including grand pianos by Steinway, Bösen dorfer, Kawai, Petrov and Yamaha; harpsichords, a clavichord, electric keyboards, chamber organs, a fortepiano and the Dartington International Summer School collection of keyboard instruments and viols.

Blackheath Halls

Blackheath Halls is one of the most outstanding centres for music and the performing arts in London, and is the city’s oldest established purpose-built concert venue. Its renowned acoustics are favoured by world famous orchestras, ensembles, record labels and conductors.

Performance facilities include:

  • 600-seat Great Hall for large-scale performances.
  • 160-seat Recital Room

Laurie Grove

Musical Theatre students spend most of their time at our Laurie Grove building in New Cross, and also make use of facilities at KCC and the Laban Building. Laurie Grove has seven bright, airy studios and a contemporary performance space – making it ideal for workshops and rehearsals.

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Blackheath Halls

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Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts

Jerwood Library

Our music library provides you with access to a range of materials and resources. It also houses some rare and unique collections – all available for study and research.

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