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=== CIT Cork School of Music ===
[[File:CITmusic.jpg|thumb|CIT Cork School of Music]]
The CIT Cork School of Music is located in the centre of [[Cork (city)|Cork City]]. The college was founded in 1878 and became a school of Cork Institute of Technology in 1993. The school operates primarily from a five-floor purpose-built conservatory which was built on the site of an earlier premises. It opened on Union Quay in 2007 and was designed by Murray O'Laoire and [[Buro Happold]].{{fact|date=October 2023}}

With over three thousand enrolments, CIT Cork School of Music offers conservatory music and drama courses, from pre-school kindermusic classes, part-time instrumental, vocal and drama lessons, life-long-learning classes and performance ensembles to its full-time degree courses at bachelors, masters and doctoral level. Four hundred third-level students study on the four-year BMus, BA in Popular Music, BA in Musical Theatre, and BA in Theatre & Drama Studies; Masters in Performance and Music Technology; and PhD programmes.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=http://csm.cit.ie|title=Cork School of Music|website=Csm.cit.ie|access-date=20 October 2018}}</ref>

Cork School of Music's Union Quay building hosts sixty [[Steinway & Sons|Steinway]] pianos.{{fact|date=October 2023}} The acoustics were provided by Applied Acoustic Design. The building incorporates three performance spaces, the Curtis Auditorium, Stack "Black Box" Theatre and the main Atrium which also functions as an art gallery. The building has a recording suite, six lecture theatres, the [[Aloys Fleischmann|Fleischmann]] Library, two audio labs, an I.T. lab, over 50 teaching and practice studios, 5 medium-sized classrooms, 5 full sized classrooms each acoustically isolated to also act as practice rooms. Under the same roof is the Off-Quay restaurant, and a common room for full-time students with large open plan areas on all floors.{{fact|date=October 2023}}

The school also has two harpsichords constructed in 2007 by the harpsichord-maker Michael Johnson, as well as housing the 1999 Michael Johnson instrument owned by Cork County Council.{{fact|date=October 2023}}