Conservatory Orchestra Hall

Rehearsing and practising are part of a musician's everyday life - but it's not just about playing through the music end to end! From making important artistic decisions, to obsessing over details, to discovering new ideas, join the Conservatory Orchestra for a series of open rehearsals where you get to see all the work that goes into every performance. Witness a rigorous and creative exploration of music that takes you beyond the finished surface, into the artistry that creates the works you hear.

‘Their playing has everything you could possibly wish for.’ - BBC Music Magazine
Praised by the The New York Times for its “passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend,” the Jerusalem Quartet has performed and recorded since 1996, with appearances in London, Paris, Zurich, Hamburg, St. Petersburg, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and other major cities, and recorded award-winning albums for the Harmonia Mundi label.

Locked away in the deepest darkest depths (more like on the table) of the Computer Music Project Studio, lies a beast — unbeknownst to many — named the Doepfer A-100 (with a few bonus parts). Menacing and terrifying, this behemoth has been menacing and terrifying all who enter its den. A magnificent creature, majestic in its domain; the peril that is locked within its electrically powered visage of LEDs and Potentiometers must be held with the utmost of caution, for it and many of the relevant contemporary counterparts fuelled the onslaught of early electronic music. Do not let its humble appearance fool you, the noble modular synthesiser can push out aural experiences capable of bewildering the sane and the sorry — vagrants to vagabond.