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Facilities and Services

In addition to our wide range of flexible rooms and spaces available for dry hire across Garsington Studios, we understand that often a booking requires extra facilities or services to make it run smoothly. From our collection of hireable pianos at range of costs, including a Steinway Model D, to a suite of WHaM and wardrobe facilities on our lower ground floor, Garsington Studios aims to provide the flexibility and facilities to meet your unique needs and requirements.

Our Pianos

Whether you’re doing a recording for solo piano, rehearsing a musical or opera, or just want a quiet place to practice by yourself, one of the pianos from our selection at Garsington Studios will suit your needs. We are proud to be the home of a Steinway Model D, as well as three top quality Yamaha grand pianos (two C3XTAs and a C5X). If your not looking to use one of our grand pianos, we also have a range of acoustic upright and electric pianos for hire including a Yamaha U1, a Bechstein Upright, and several electric Yamahas. All our coaching and rehearsal rooms come with pianos included in the room hire, with our coaching rooms housing grand pianos and our practice rooms equipped with Yamaha Clavinova CLP775s.

To hear our Steinway Model D in action, listen to some of the recordings made at Garsington Studios through the button below:

Recorded at the Studios

For day rates of piano hire, please email studios@garsingtonopera.org for a quote.

Parking & Transport

Located on a quiet, private estate just minutes from the M40, J5, driving to Garsington Studios couldn’t be easier, with between 80-90 free on-site parking spaces available for use, with overflow options available if needed. We also provide EV charging in eight of our parking bays.

All our parking bays are on level access to the Studios, but we also have specific accessible parking bays reserved at the top of the car park. There is also space for larger vans and HGVs around the site, as well as easy vehicle access to a loading dock that leads directly into all three of our studio spaces.

London is only a 40 minute drive, while Oxford is 30 minutes away.

While public transport options are limited, High Wycombe is our closest station, only 25-30mins from London, and only 15 minutes away from the Studios by car, with plenty of taxis available in the area if coming by train.

Our address is:
Garsington Studios,
Wallace Hill Farm,
Stokenchurch
HP14 3YF

Accommodation

Garsington Studios is able to offer a range of on-site accommodation options for you to choose from which can be booked individually, as a group, or as part of your studio hire.

Immediately opposite the Studios is our newly renovated Farmhouse with six double-bedrooms, each with a private bathroom either ensuite or adjacent, a spacious living area as well as a bright and sunny kitchen leading out to a private garden.

Integrated into the east wing of the Studios is Wallace Hill Cottage, an original building which has been preserved and renovated as part of the Studios’ build. With private access and internally separated from the rest of the Studios, this cottage has four double-bedrooms with two shared bathrooms and a cosy kitchen downstairs.

Set slightly apart from our complex of other buildings is the freshly restored Mole’s Cottage, a cosy, intimate dwelling with a double-bed mezzanine, wood fire burner, open-plan living space and kitchen as well as a quiet, idyllic private garden.

Off-site accommodation options can be found via teh button below:

Where to stay

Kitchens & Catering

On the ground floor of Garsington Studios, accompanied by café-style seating for up to 130 people, is a self-service kitchenette which is a communal space that can be used by everyone in the Studios. On the other side of the foyer is a canteen-stye service area, leading out from a fully equipped industrial kitchen. Use of the industrial kitchen must be agreed in advance with Studios Management, there is an extra cost for its hire. On the first floor, there is another kitchenette that serves the coaching and practice rooms as well as the Barker Room, use of which is included in the hire cost of those spaces.

Please note that currently we operate on a ‘dry hire’ basis and that we do not provide any form of catering, however on enquiry we can suggest some recommended and trusted caterers who have worked at the Studios before for a variety of events at every scale.

WHaM & Wardrobe

On our lower-ground floor we have a suite of rooms specifically designed to accommodate WHaM (wigs, hair and makeup) and wardrobe. With plenty of workshop space, fitting rooms and a specialised salon-style hair-washing sink in our ‘wigs’ room, these spaces are perfectly suited to be used for anything from styling to costume fittings. Use of this suite is agreed on a case-by-case basis with the Studios Management and isn’t guaranteed as part of your booking. There maybe extra costs attached to using these spaces depending on the nature of your booking.

This suite is fully accessible, with lift access down from the ground floor.