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Black Cat Music & Acoustics are exhibiting at the MTA conference!

We are delighted to announce our attendence between 12-14th May

held this year at The Loughbrough Schools foundation.

 

 

The Music Teachers’ Conference is a widely respected annual gathering of professionals in music education

with a comprehensive and diverse programme lead by some of the best speakers in the UK. 

 

Some excellent reasons to attend this event!

 

* Black Cat will be exhibiting some if its best selling top quality products

 

* Sole supplier of Wenger products in the UK & Ireland

 

* High-quality CPD to enhance your teaching

 

* Keynotes with diverse and respected guests

 

* Excellent opportunity to network with other music teachers

 

* Take advantage of 1-to-1 mentoring & career development sessions

 

* Trade Fair with over 28 exhibitors and hands-on resources

 

* Ticket includes access to all sessions, meals, coffee stations and gala dinner

 

We would love to see you there and if you are thinking of attending please drop us a note to let us know -

 

We're a friendly bunch!

We have an excellent &

knowledgeable team

and will be offering a

conference discount for

those of you that come and

say hi!

 

 

 

Check out a video of last years conference below:


We hope to see you there! For direct enquiries please email the team here: sales@blackcatmusic.com

The Black Cat team will be at Music & Drama Education Expo on 23-24 February

Alice Dagger on the Black Cat Music stand

The Black Cat team will be exhibiting at Music & Drama Education Expo on 23-24 February.

We are delighted to be back at Music & Drama Education Expo in 2023, where we will be exhibiting our wide range of quality music education and performance equipment, including Wenger music stands, Wenger music chairs, orchestra seating, Black Cat choir and orchestra folders, instrument storage cabinets, staging and choral risers, and the ever-popular Studiobricks sound-isolation booths for recording music, vocals, voiceover, podcasting and media production.

Black Cat Music is proud to be the exclusive UK distributor for Wenger Corporation, who manufacture superb quality music equipment for schools, colleges and professional orchestras.  All Wenger products are elegant, user-friendly and built to last (Wenger products come with a minimum 5 year warranty).

We look forward to seeing you at the Expo!

The Black Cat Music team welcomes Abi Skates to the team

Abi Skates joins the Black Cat team

The Black Cat Music team is delighted to welcome Abi Skates to the team.

Abi comes from a strong background in the Education and Communication Sector and will be supporting the team in the role of sales and marketing assistant.

We have a busy year ahead with a packed schedule ahead with trade shows and conferences where we will be exhibiting our wide range of music and performance equipment from the Wenger music stands, orchestral seating, folders, instument storage solutions, conductors equipment, staging and choral risers to the Studiobricks sound isolation booths for recording studios, podcasters, video editing, music production vocal booths voice over and audio booth narration.

For more information and to speak to the team, please call us on 01892 619719.

The Black Cat team is looking forward to the Music Teachers' Association Conference in Oxford this May!

Black Cat team at MTA Conference May 2022

The Music Teachers’ Conference is a widely respected annual gathering of professionals in music education with a comprehensive and diverse programme lead by some of the best speakers in the music education industry.

Hosted by a member school, our 2022 conference sees us heading to St Edward’s Oxford. The atmosphere is always friendly but professional, and you can expect a memorable weekend where contacts are made, ideas are nurtured and horizons expanded.

Black Cat Music & Acoustics will be displaying its full range of music education equipment, from music stands and orchestra seating to staging, conductor's equipment, music folders, instrument storage solutions and acoustic products.

We are very much looking forward to catching up with customers and meeting new faces at MTA 2022.

The Black Cat team will be exhibiting at the Music & Drama Ed Expo later this month!

Music & Drama Education Expo London is Europe’s largest conference and exhibition for anyone involved in music & drama education, and it takes place on 24 & 25 September 2021.

The CPD conference programme will consist of a broad range of high-quality, free-to-attend workshops and seminars over 24 & 25 September 2021. Delivered by award-winning teachers and practitioners from organisations including Open Drama UK and Musicians Union, these sessions will help music and drama education professionals from across the UK enhance their provision and inspire young learners.

Black Cat Music & Acoustics is delighted to exhibit at the conference again this year, and will be displaying a mixture of music education products ranging from Wenger music stands, orchestra seating and conductor's equipment to choral and orchestral folders, staging/choral risers, a comprehensive range of instrument storage solutions and the Studiobricks sound-isolation booths for rehearsing and recording music, vocals and podcasts.

Come over to stand B60 to have a chat with the Black Cat team and pick up your free conductor's baton (or Black Cat coffee mug)!

Black Cat Music & Acoustics was delighted to sponsor the ABO online conference 'Aftershock'

Black Cat Music & Acoustics was delighted to sponsor the ABO online conference in March 2021.

The three-day, online forum offered an opportunity for delegates from the UK and beyond to discuss the impact of the pandemic, Brexit and the Black Lives Matter movement on orchestral music and to seek solutions arising from them. Hosted in partnership with Classic FM, Help Musicians, Classical Music and the British Council, featured speakers at the ABO conference included Sir Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England (ACE) and the Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Caroline Dineage.

Black Cat's online exhibition stand displayed Black Cat products ranging from Wenger's excellent range of music stands, orchestra seating, instrument storage solutions and conductor's equipment, as well as acoustic treatments ranging from the Wenger acoustic shells to the Goodear acoustic shields and the Studiobricks sound-isolating rooms for rehearsing and recording music.

Dawkes Music's beautiful new Studiobricks Studio Room offers a professional set-up with high-quality sound-proofing

Dawkes Music has installed a beautiful new Studiobricks Studio Room in their Maidenhead shop, offering a professional set-up for hearing all the details in your sound and performance.

The Studio Room offers:

- Professional quality sound proofed studio space Little to no reverb or room feedback

- Testing space for instruments

- Dawkes Music’s newest facility, the Studio Room is a professional quality bespoke studio space.

The Studio Room was designed specifically with Dawkes’ space and needs in mind, with high-quality sound proofing.  The nature of the Studiobricks booth’s acoustic properties allow for all the details in one’s sound to be heard.

If you’re really looking to form an in-depth understanding of the capabilities of a new instrument or accessory, this is the room for the job. Such a space also makes it perfect for making high quality recordings. It is also a space dedicated to test Dawkes’s new selection of electronics, such as microphones, amplifiers, and effects pedals.

The Studiobricks Studio Room is set to feature as the new setting for videos released via the Dawkes Music YouTube channel.

Dawkes Music have installed new Studiobricks Studio Room

About the Studiobricks Booth

The STUDIOBRICKS sound-isolation cabin is designed to be incredibly fast and easy to install, without compromising the booth’s excellent sound-isolating properties. Superb sound isolation is achieved from the high performance acoustic materials in the patented panels which simply slot together.

The modular, interlocking panel design makes virtually any size of room possible.

With a typical sound isolation performance of 46dB, the STUDIOBRICKS booth is ideal for professional music studios and for also makes a great home recording studio.

Further information and contacts:

Studiobricks UK Tel: 01892 619719

Web: www.acousticabins.com

Play On: Black Cat Music was delighted to take part in the Music Mark online conference 2020

The Black Cat team was delighted to attend the Music Mark online conference last month.

Music Mark's first ever virtual conference, Play On: the Music in Music Education, went live to music educators across the country and beyond on Friday 20th November. Hosted by YolanDa Brown, talented speakers and panellists came together for a day of online networking, learning and discussion.

Exploring the theme of putting the ‘music’ into music education, the Music Mark team brought together essential sessions covering genre, composition, accessible notation, and practical CPD for teachers, as well as discussions about diversity and how to address the challenges and opportunities of the current period. Black Cat was pleased to attend the conference and to exhibit in the Virtual Exhibition.

Black Cat Music is proud to be exclusive UK distributor for Wenger in Europe and Russia, supplying music education equipment ranging from Wenger music stands, orchestra chairs, staging and choral risers, choir and band folders, instrument storage cabinets and acoustic treatments to the UK music education sector.  Black Cat is also UK distributor for Studiobricks sound-isolation booths - ideal for rehearsing and recording music in schools, colleges, radio stations and professional recording studios.

For those who were not able to attend the conference on 20th November, a post-conference ticket is now available to book until 14th December. This will allow those who may have missed out on a ticket to our live event to log-on to the conference microsite and watch all of the conference sessions as recordings until Christmas. In addition to the session recordings from the Main Channel and Webinar Channels, you will be able to access the full Virtual Exhibition, the On Demand videos and the Resource Bank.

'The best business investment I've made!' - Voice Actor and Audiobook Narrator Gabrielle Baker loves her Studiobricks booth

Successful British Voice Actor Gabrielle Baker invested in a VO edition Studiobricks booth a couple of years ago and describes it as ‘the best business investment I’ve made!’  Gabrielle described the booth as ‘a fantastic product’, which has had a real impact on the amount of work she can produce: ‘The quality of the audio I record has meant that my productivity has increased ten fold and I have full confidence that live sessions with clients will give them the professional quality they require’.

A highly respected and experienced British Voice Actor with her own studio at her home in Kent, UK, Gabrielle works in all genres of voice over and narration with clients around the world.  Gabrielle was a finalist for a Voice Arts Award in 2016 in Los Angeles and has gone on to be a best-selling audiobook narrator.

Gabrielle recently moved house, and was able to take the Studiobricks booth with her to her new home.  Gabrielle reports: ‘The booth is so well designed and easy to build that during my recent studio move my husband and I were able to deconstruct and reconstruct the booth seamlessly and without any damage.  This means that investing in a VO Edition booth is an investment for life, once purchased it’s yours forever’.

Gabrielle adds: ‘The customer service from Black Cat Music was fantastic.  By chance they were close to me so I was able to visit their premises and see, touch and test a vocal booth.  The order was managed by Black Cat Music from start to finish and at all times communication was great.  I was kept fully up to date with the delivery and also a follow-up to make sure I was happy with my new vocal booth. 

Gabrielle concludes: ‘I cannot recommend both the VO Edition Studiobricks booth and Black Cat Music enough.  A great product and fantastic customer service.  What more could I ask for?’

New acoustic ceiling panels at London South Bank Edric Hall Theatre

New acoustic ceiling panels at London South Bank Edric Hall Theatre

Here are the first ‘hot-off-the-press’ pictures of the acoustic panels which we installed at London South Bank University’s Edric Hall Theatre this week – we are all delighted with the results!

London South Bank University’s Edric Theatre is a dedicated theatre and rehearsal space for drama, performance and technical theatre students. With its reconfigurable 90-seat auditorium, seven studio theatres, rehearsal spaces and backstage facilities, the Edric Theatre is a wonderful space for rehearsals and performances – both for students, and for commercial theatre companies.

The theatre had recognized a need to improve the acoustics in the much-loved Edric Hall, so Black Cat Music & Acoustics was brought in to make the improvements.

The team installed elegant, curved Acoustic GRG acoustic panels – and the result is a beautiful-looking ceiling providing dramatically enhanced hall acoustics.

The whole team is really pleased with the new look and feel of the hall and we wish London South Bank University many successful rehearsals and performances for years to come.