Major new music venue, educational institution and registered charity, which opened in our Norman Foster designed building in December 2004. Presents over 400 concerts a year in three different sized performance spaces in the building across a very wide range if music genres including jazz. Has established the annual Gateshead International Jazz Festival as a regular event on the UK jazz calendar, programmed in collaboration with Serious. Our huge learning and participation programme includes significant jazz activity, including our youth jazz ensemble Jambone.