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Cork School of Music

Union Quay, Cork

Description

The CIT Cork School of Music is located in the centre of Cork City, Ireland. The college was founded in 1878 and became a school of Cork Institute of Technology in 1993. The school currently operates from a five-floor music centre designed by Murray O’Laoire and Buro Happold. The building was opened in 2007. Cork School of Music currently operates from a state-of-the-art building on Union Quay in Cork, hosting a large number of Steinway pianos. The acoustics were provided by Applied Acoustic Design. It incorporates two performance spaces, the Curtis Auditorium, and the Stack Theater. While the building hosts a full recording suite, it also contains six lecture theaters, the full Fleischmann Library, 2 audio labs, an I.T. lab, over 50 tutoring suites, 5 medium sized classrooms, 5 full sized classrooms each acoustically isolated to also act as practice rooms. Each room in the building is equipped with at least one Apple iMac, projector and a speaker system, Sennheiser Evolution radio microphone, Rane rack mixer and dual 15 band graphic EQ, and a Lab Gruppen stereo power amplifer. Under the same roof is a restaurant, and a common room for full-time students with large open plan areas on all floors.