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Curtains up as new music institute opening confirmed

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A one-of-a-kind institute for popular music offering degrees for students seeking a career in a range of music industries will be opening its doors next year.

Resonance will have some of the best minds in music, teaching students everything from popular music performance, production, composition and business.

Based in the stunning Cable Plaza building on The Waterfront at Brierley Hill in the Black Country, Resonance will be offering a suite of courses under a franchise arrangement from Solent University in Southampton with courses uploaded to UCAS this summer.

The £9.5 million project will also create a vital community music hub. Musicians and organisations from across the region will be encouraged to make full use of the state-of-the-art facilities on offer.

“We’re absolutely delighted to finally be in a position where we can confidently say ‘it’s coming’,” said David Barnard, co-director of Resonance.

“Contractors have been on site for some weeks now and we should be ready to move in at the end of 2019. That’s when the fun really starts.”

Paul Rutter, Head of Music at Solent University, and published music industry author said: “I have travelled the world to see various different musical institutions and conservatoires and the Resonance project is highly impressive. I have not seen anything quite like it.”

“In the Cable Plaza building they have what must be the world’s best purposed modern popular music institute. The building and space dedicated to pop music study is exemplary, I doubt there is many out there that could compete. I’m sure it will be a huge success for the West Midlands pop music industries.”

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