The Glasshouse is a home for live music lovers.
It’s a place where you can hear rock legends or pop icons on the same night as folk trios or opera singers. Where new musicians are nurtured and showcased on the same stages as platinum-selling performers. And where youth choirs and tambourine-shaking toddlers practise in the same spaces as our acclaimed orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia.
Because as an international centre for music we’re focused on creating and celebrating outstanding music – whether that’s unearthing or growing talent from our region or bringing the world’s best artists to our stages. And as a charity we’re focused on making sure all of that is available to anyone – no matter where you’re from, how old you are, how much money you have, or what challenges you face.
Which is why every year more than 2 million people are able to join us for top-notch gigs, concerts, and classes – in our own venue at Gateshead Quays, out in communities across the North East, and through livestreamed performances and digital lessons.
So whether you’re making it up or taking it in, you’ll find music lives and grows here.
Everything music can do. Under one iconic roof.
Designed and built for live music in 2004. Home to spine-tingling, mind-blowing, life-affirming experiences ever since.
Join us for the next era as we celebrate twenty years of music.
The place where artists and music fans meet.
Our new Artistic Partners – Corinne Bailey Rae, Maria Włoszczowska and The Unthanks – will be curating and creating with The Glasshouse for three years, starting as we get ready to celebrate 20 years of music in a landmark year for our landmark building.
Music makes me feel
Are you ready to feel the music?
We asked young people at The Glasshouse how powerful music is in their lives. The result? A celebration of all the incredible ways music shapes us – from building confidence and making new friends to simply finding joy.
Our musical community
We're a Warm Space
You’ll get a warm welcome in our concourse, café and bar areas. We’ve got free WiFi and charging points if you want to get some work done. Our baby changing facilities are fully stocked and you can find free sanitary products in our toilets. We also offer ‘pay what you decide’ tea and coffee in the cafe.
A place of sanctuary for everyone
We have made a pledge to the City of Sanctuary network, and are working on becoming a Theatre of Sanctuary. We’re committed to supporting refugee and asylum seeker communities to enjoy music at The Glasshouse.
Our Board of Trustees
Sir Martin Narey (Chair)
Roy McEwan Brown OBE (Vice Chair) Former CEO and Director of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Ltd
Mike Barker Strategic Director, Corporate Services & Governance, at Gateshead Council
Darren Collins Treasurer and Strategic Director of Resources and Digital at Gateshead Council
Emily Cox MBE Head of Colleague Relations at Lloyds Banking Group
Emyr Penry Dance Trumpeter, composer and band leader
Subashis Das Creative Director, Everyman & Playhouse Theatres
Gabriel Day Founder of Ape Team Ltd event and venue management
Hilary Florek Managing Director at HF PR
Jacqui Hodgson Former BBC reporter, Correspondent, producer and editor
Herb Kim Founder of Thinking Digital conference and TEDx event series
Joanna Lawson Head of Governance at Girlguiding
Ruth Lyon Local singer/songwriter
Jane Spiers Chair, National Theatre of Scotland
Tony Wadsworth CBE Former Chairman and CEO of EMI Music UK
Alfie Whillis Music theory tutor and occasional music producer/engineer
Annual Reviews and Policies
Annual Reviews
- 2023 Annual Review (PDF)
- 2022 Annual Review (PDF)
- 2020-21 Annual Review (PDF)