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Venue Hire

Located on the main campus, the School of Music provides a unique location for conferences, events and exhibitions. Its focal point is the stunning 250-seat Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall. The natural choice for musical performance, the Hall also hosts conference presentation, and fully retractable seating enables a 210 sq.m exhibition space. Comprehensive AV/IT facilities, including HD live video streaming, and recently added big-screen cinematic projection, create possibilities for engaging, media-rich events.

The Concert Hall is supported by the Clothworkers Bar. The refurbished 200 sq.m Foyer, now a technologically-advanced venue in its own right, is an attractive, versatile, social space, perfectly suited to performance, presentation, networking and refreshment. Four AV equipped Lecture Theatres flank the Foyer, and combine with the Concert Hall, Foyer and Clothworkers Bar to make the School of Music the ideal venue for a self-contained event requiring a range of flexible breakout spaces.

Capacity

Main Retractable Seating – 190
Balcony – 63

Audio

Mixing Desk: Midas M32, 22 lines to stage boxes either side of stage archway. P.A.: Tannoy – installed on upstage truss, 8x Genelec 1037b, 2x Genelec 1038b, 2x Genelec 7070b, 4x Turbosound TB403 15” active. Microphones: 4x AKG C414, 2x AKG D112, 1x Audix D6, 4x DPA 4060, 1x EV RE20, 4x Neumann KM184 9x Shure SM58, 12x Shure SM57, 1x Shure SM7b, 2x Sennheiser D1-835 Wireless, 2x Sennheiser D1-ME2 Wireless, 3x Sennheiser e604, 4x Sennheiser MD421, 4x BSS AR-133 DI boxes

Lights

Control: Chamsys MagicQ PC Software, 1x Universe – Chamsys, MagicDMX, Dimmers, 23 Channels, 12x Up Stage truss, 11x Down Stage truss. Fixtures: 16x ETC Source Four PARNel, 10x Par Cans, 2x Stairville Led Bar 240/8 RGB, DMX connections, 1x Up Stage truss, 1x Down Stage truss, 1x Stage Right stage box, 1x Stage Left stage box

Video

Projector: Christie D13WU-HS –; 1 DLP Laser Projection, 1920 x 1080, 12000 ANSI lumens. Projection Screen: Screen International –
Motorised, 16:9, 8m x 4.5m. Stage Input Panel: HDMI, VGA + 3.5mm audio. Cameras: 1x BlackMagic Design Micro Cinema Camera4K, 5x Sony PXW-X70, Vision Mixer, BlackMagic Design ATEM 2M/E ProductionStudio 4K. Media Player: Denon Blu-Ray Player with 5.1 audio output.

Streaming

Computer: Mac Studio M1 Max, 32 core GPU, 32GBRAM, 1TB Storage, StreamDeck XL – Controlling BitfocusCompanion. Software: BlackMagic Design – ATEM Control, Bitfocus Companion, OBS, Figure53 – QLab v5, Midas – M32 Edit

Green Room

Attached to the concert hall is a spacious and comfortable green room space. Equipped with couches, mini fridge (stocked with water), tea/coffee making facilities, ample plug sockets, hanging wardrobe space, and a live screen showing the stage area within the concert hall. A performer only bathroom with toilet and shower is also available. Nearby lecture theatres are available for large ensembles which need more retiring space.

2x Steinway MODEL D concert grand pianos
At 8' 11¾" (274 cm) in length, this majestic musical instrument — the pinnacle of concert grands —is the overwhelming choice of the world's greatest pianists and for anyone who demands the highestlevel of musical expression.
University of Leeds is a Steinway School: ALL-STEINWAY SCHOOLS demonstrate a full commitment toexcellence by providing their students and faculties with the finest STEINWAY pianos possible for thestudy of music in higher education.

Organ
Built by Goetze and Gwynn.
The organ is based on the ca1760 chamber organs of Thomas Parker, wholearnt his organbuilding from Richard Bridge, and made the organ for Charles Jennens, now at GreatPackington. The organ has an oak case, in two halves, on wheels, and with an internal electric blower.

  • Shifting movement (reducing to Diapasons)
  • Key compass of GG to e³ (58 notes) at a pitch of A415
  • Transposing keyboard for pitches A392 A415 A440 and A465
  • Tuning slides to the metal pipes for re-tuning at different pitches

Percussion
We have a large range of percussion instruments, please ask for specific requirements.

Clothworkers Bar

Room Dimensions

Overall: 18.2m x 13.4m x 9.2m. Library/side area: 7.2m x 3.4m. Stage area: 3.6m x 5.6 / 6.9m x 0.3m. Stage area & add on: 3.6m x 7.6m x 0.3m

Audio

Mixing Desk: Midas M32, Midas DL32 Digital StageBox, P.A., 2x Turbosound iQ15, 2x Turbosound iQ18b, 4x Turbosound TB403, 15”. Microphones: 4x AKG C414, 2x AKG D112, 1x Audix D6, 4x DPA 4060, 1x EV RE20, 4x Neumann KM184, 9x Shure SM58, 12x Shure SM57, 1x Shure SM7b, 2x Sennheiser D1-835 Wireless, 2x Sennheiser D1-ME2 Wireless, 3x Sennheiser e604, 4x Sennheiser MD421, 4x BSS AR-133 DI boxes.

Lights

Control: Chamsys MagicQ PC Software, 1x Universe – Chamsys MagicDMX. Fixtures: 2x ADJ 5PX Hex, 2x ADJ 12PX Hex, 2x Martin MAC 250, 4x Stairville Led Bar 240/8 RGB, 5x ADJ Ultra HEX Bar 12.

Video

Screens: 4 Screen Wide “Video Wall” - 4x 55” 1920 x 1080 (Total resolution inc. bezels 7770 x 1080), 2x 65” TV Mobile Trolleys. Cameras: 5x Sony PXW-X70. Vision Mixer: BlackMagic Design ATEM 1M/E, Production Studio 4K

Streaming

Computer: Mac Pro (2013) 16GB RAM, 512GB Storage, StreamDeck XL – Controlling Bitfocus Companion. Software: BlackMagic Design – ATEM Control, Bitfocus Companion, OBS, Figure53 – QLab v5, Midas – M32 Edit.

If you have any questions or want to book our venue, please email Dan Merrick (Strategic Development Manager) at d.merrick@leeds.ac.uk

Download our full technical & venue specification here