Wiltshire Music Centre is a unique contemporary building in Bradford on Avon

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, Wiltshire. It has a first class 300 seat concert hall with superb acoustics plus nine other teaching and workshop spaces of various sizes.

The Centre was one of the first successful Arts Council England

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capital projects, winning an award of £1.74 million towards overall design and build costs of £2.4 million. It opened in 1998 and now welcomes 67,000 visitors each year.