The Stoller Concert Hall forms part of the internationally renowned Chetham’s Music School. The building includes the Chetham’s library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, established in 1653.

The concert hall accommodates 482 seating, which also includes a choir galley and balcony, and brings together state-of-the-art facilities for performing, rehearsing and recording.

Working alsongside Stephenson Studio, we provided M&E Engineering for the project. Our design included the interface and coordination with systems in the existing building and designing the infrastructure to support the specialist theatre systems.

Designing the ventilation system in compliance with the extremely tight acoustic requirements posed a particular challenge, which we successfully addressed while ensuring to keep the services discrete and sensitive to the architecture in the front of house areas.