Royal College of Music

The College's largest room and its most adaptable. It opened in 1901 and was rebuilt in 2009, keeping the barrel-vaulted ceiling, the arched windows down both sides and the pipe organ that fills the wall behind the stage. The auditorium runs 17.6m by 32.6m with a 12.56m stage; lighting and sound are installed, and the hall is licensed for public concerts. It holds 370 seated for a concert, 280 standing, and 160 at round tables for dinner. The courtyard and café next door are often taken with it for the reception beforehand.

The reception room of the building: a tall hall with its own bar, giving onto the Cotes-Burgan atrium and its glass ceiling on one side and an open courtyard of about 160 square metres on the other. It takes 280 standing, seventy for dinner inside and thirty out in the courtyard, and is let as a blank canvas.

Built in the More Music redevelopment and finished in wooden lattice panelling over acoustic walls, with a coffered ceiling and a raised stage under an arched recess. About 160 square metres. A screen is built in behind the stage, lighting and sound are installed, and the room is licensed for public concerts. It seats 140 in rows, takes the same number standing, and sets seventy for dinner.

Three interconnecting wood-panelled rooms under a timber arched roof, looking across at the Royal Albert Hall: West Parry at about 85 square metres, Inner Parry at 100 and the Carne Room at 75. Soundproof doors let them work as one suite or as three, which is what makes them useful for a day that has to split. The suite takes 120 standing, ninety for dinner and 100 in rows; a single room takes sixty, forty-five and fifty.

A light-filled room of roughly 175 square metres with a low stage at one end and a plain, adaptable floor. A projector and a large dropdown screen are built in. It takes 120 standing and 100 seated in rows.

Home to the RCM Performance Laboratory: a black-box room of about 85 square metres with projection screens on three walls, used to put performers in front of virtual audiences and panels. Video and audio record and play back, a speaker array is installed, and the temperature and humidity are controlled. It takes eighty standing and forty in rows.

Reopened in autumn 2021 across several levels. The collection was founded in 1892 and now runs past 14,000 items: instruments, portraits, engravings, sculpture and photographs, including the earliest known guitar and the earliest known stringed keyboard instrument, and portraits of Haydn and Farinelli. A projector and AV are in place, curators will lead a tour, and the Wolfson Centre for research and conservation can be opened up. Sixty stand among the cases; ten dine on the ground floor.

Sir Hugh Casson designed it as a small Italian opera house, and it has stayed one of London's better-liked rooms for opera: a proscenium arch, a counterweight flying system, a pit for 55 players and 390 fixed seats plus two wheelchair spaces. There is an LED rig, two dressing rooms, and the Ruth West Foyer and bar in front. The seating is fixed, so the College publishes no dining or reception figure for it.

The live room directly beneath the concert hall, about 75 square metres, run by the College's Studios team for classical recording, video production and streaming. Three control rooms link it to performance spaces across the campus, and three more rooms handle composition, production and editing. No guest capacity is published.