Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA)

We have two main performance spaces used for productions & teaching. The paul mccartney auditorium (pma) is a traditional proscenium arch theatre w/ full counterweight flying facilities. The pma is our largest performance space & can seat over 400 people. The sennheiser studio theatre can hold an audience of up to 96 people. Both spaces are flexible & accessible & promote the right ambience for all types of performance, whether that is a music festival, a visual feast of dance theatre, a broadway-style musical or a sumptuous costume drama. Each year, over 150 performances take place between these spaces, about half of these are to a public audience. Both theatre spaces are fully equipped & we have a large floating stock of additional lighting, sound & video equipment available for external projects. We have also recently invested in equipment that enables us to transform our café area into a venue for music gigs

There are a number of spacious rehearsal rooms, which are predominantly used for workshop-style teaching & as rehearsal spaces in the lead up to performances. Some have their own sound & lighting facilities

We have lecture theatres & airy seminar rooms for more traditional style-teaching, w/ a range of presentation equipment

If‎ you study management, you have your own dedicated space in which to operate. It includes key communication tools such as computers, a printer, a fax machine, plus a dedicated phone line

There are 22 offline workstations to complement the hd systems in the studios. The offline workstations are based around mac pros. Each system runs logic studio, pro-tools & a variety of software synthesizers & samplers such as reason & reaktor

In addition to the recording studios, we also have a mobile recording system w/ microphone preamplifiers, monitoring & routing based around a pro-tools hd2 system. This is used for recording on location (for example, at liverpool's philharmonic hall) , or for recording in some of the larger performance spaces