About Music Division

The Jazz programme has a professionally equipped recording studio with control room, recording room and a high-quality backline. For larger band productions, additional classrooms at the location can be added.

The recording studio on Papiermühlestrasse has a modern infrastructure with a spacious control room with analogue and digital networking possibilities to other acoustically separated, multifunctional rooms and the concert hall. Thus, music productions from soloists to ensembles to orchestras can be handled, but also surround productions and film soundtracks are possible without any problems.

The HKB also has a modern and mobile infrastructure for recordings outside the building. An extensive range of instruments – percussion instruments of all kinds, various grand pianos and historical keyboard instruments – complete the offer.

The Music Division has two performance spaces at its Bern location, the Auditorium on Ostermundigenstrasse and the Concert Hall on Papiermühlestrasse, which are equipped with sound, projection and lighting systems. The Opera and Music and Movement programmes in Biel often use the auditorium of the Volkshaus or the theatre there for their public events.

Depending on the requirements, our rooms can be equipped for complex situations, be it in the area of sound reinforcement, live electronics, music theatre productions or synchronisations of all kinds. Of course, all this can also be recorded, in the Auditorium additionally with a permanently installed multi-camera system.