Conservatory of Music

Facilities

The Music Building
The Music Building is an outstanding facility for practice, rehearsal, recording, and classroom study. It offers a variety of large, acoustically isolated rehearsal and performance spaces, including a 198-seat Choral Hall; 280-seat Recital Hall; 72 practice rooms and teaching studios; digital recording studios, two fully equipped MIDI sequencing rooms, and two state-of-the-art hard-disk digital assembly studios.

The Performing Arts Center
One of the finest facilities on any East Coast college campus, The Performing Arts Center, is located adjacent to the Music Building and is available for the Conservatory’s activities. The Center has four professional performance spaces and one of the largest portable Flentrop tracker organs in the world.

Our inventory of instruments includes:

  • Massive Flentrop and Rieger organs
  • Steinway B, D, L, and M performance pianos, plus approximately 102 other Steinway Grand pianos located in classrooms, studios, and practice rooms
  • French doubles, English, and pedal harpsichords
  • Two fortepianos, a clavichord, two celestes
  • A vast collection of professional standard woodwinds, brasses, and strings
  • A complete authentic Baroque string quartet
  • Gambas, sackbuts, crumhorns, and recorders
  • An array of additional Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and exotic Indian instruments

Conservatory Recording Facilities

Updated Mar. 6, 2008