The Institute is an independent, specialist education provider widely recognised as being one of Europe's leading schools of modern music. Founded over a quarter of a century ago, we are located in the heart of London's live music scene, and we provide our students with state of the art teaching, practice and performance facilities to support a wide range of courses. We are home to one of the finest teaching faculties in the business. Our teaching staff are all actively engaged with the music industry, as performers, session musicians or musical directors, as managers, promoters or publishers, regularly touring with high profile bands, or as performing or recording artists in their own right. So in addition to their teaching experience and qualifications, Institute students benefit directly from this unrivaled wealth of experience and knowledge every day in the classroom and on stage.