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Visiting Artist Marcello Abbado giving a Piano Masterclass in the Recital Hall 		The Academy has three purpose-built music performance venues, the Concert Hall and the Recital Hall at the Wanchai campus, and the Wellcome Theatre at the new Bethanie campus at Pokfulam. The Concert Hall is used for orchestral concerts, rehearsals and Departmental Concert Practice; the Recital Hall and the Wellcome Theatre can be used for solo and chamber recitals, lectures, piano masterclasses and so on. Opera productions generally take place in the Drama Theatre. The Foyer space outside the Concert Hall is the venue for regular Monday Lunchtime Concerts. The School of Music has two classrooms, 12 teaching rooms and 17 practice rooms.
The following are some of the musical instruments and facilities available to students of the School of Music:

Pipe Organ
41 stops Reiger Organ of Austria built in 1986 in the Concert Hall. Mechanical key action. Electric stop action. 8 adjustable pistons to each manual. 8 pistons to the pedal organ. 12 general pistons: 4 under each manual, duplicated by toe studs. Inter-manual pistons and manual to pedal coupler pistons duplicating draw stops. General cancel piston.
Manual compass: 61
Pedal compass: 32
Pedalboard is straight and concave.

Chamber Organ
Detlef Kleuker.

Harpsichords
Robert Goble & Son, Oxford - Flemish Double Manual Harpsichord after J.D. Dulcken, Antwerp 1745 (Smithsonian Institution)

Fortepiano

Visiting Artist Yoshiko Kojima and the Academy's fortepiano 		Made in Belgium by Chris Maene - copy of the Anton Walter (Vienna 1795) original instrument in the German National Museum in Nuremberg. This is the very first fortepiano in Hong Kong.

 
  Concert Grand Pianos
1 Fazioli F308 piano
3 Steinway & Son Pianos
2 Yamaha Pianos
2 Kawai Pianos

The School of Music also owns 37 standard grand pianos.

String Instruments
A Cello made by Simon Andrew Forster, London in 1836 (Generously donated by the Society of the Academy for Performing Arts)

Baroque string instruments: Eight violins, four violas and three cellos

The following very valuable antique instruments are on long-term loan from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust:
Violins:
Giuseppe Baldantoni of Ancona, 1839
Giovanni Battista Rogeri of Brescia, 1705
Matteo Goffriller of Venice, 1706
Joseph Bassot of Paris, 1777
Violas:
Lorenzo Storioni of Cremona, ca. 1770
J.C. Leidolff of Viennese School, ca. 1750-60
Cellos:
Antonio Casini of Modena, ca. 1670
Charles Boullangier of London, 1884

2 Concert Grand Harps

Electronic Music Studio (EMS):
Electronic Music Studio The Academy Electronic Music Studio is one of the most well-equipped studios in Hong Kong. Established in 1990, the EMS provides sophisticated music information technology resources, and facilitates the creative output of faculty staff and students. Facilities at the EMS include:

NeXT, PC and Macintosh computers with professional music software, audio and Midi interface; analog and digital multi-track sound recording and editing systems; sampling modules, keyboard and odule synthesizers providing various synthesis techniques such as additive, wavetable and FM; Midi equipped acoustic piano; electric violin pick-up, drum machine, wind controller and full-size keyboard controller; synchronization system for film music production; and audio system including 24-channel mixer, recorders, speakers and microphone. A resource computer was setup to store the material of students' composition such as score and concert recording.

Music Workstation Room (MWR):
Next to the Studio, the MWR was built in 1994, which equipped with a local area networkand backup system running in the 10 music workstations. Each workstation includes a PC or Macintosh computer with sound card and midi devices, keyboard synthesizer, a mini-multitrack mixing and recording system with a headphone and microphone.

Keyboard Laboratory

Keyboard Laboratory 		The Keyboard Laboratory is designed for keyboard skills and general musicianship training, and is equipped with a nine-station computer-driven keyboard system. A variety of software is installed in the computers in the EMS, MWR and Keyboard Laboratory, ranging from statistical analysis packages, to sophisticated programmes for composition, desktop music publishing and self-access aural training and other music programmes.


Orchestral Music Collection
The School of Music owns a large collection of orchestral music, part of which is the Ernest Read Collection donated by Mr. Harry M. Weinrebe. More information can be obtained from the Academy's Main Library catalogue.