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.