The new TCU Pavilion offers a huge step forward in the concertgoing experience for performers and audiences alike. Kirkegaard worked with Axis Architecture and Theatre Projects Consultants from the earliest planning stages to work out a comprehensive approach to the…
The renovation retained the beautiful green lawn with space for 8,000, surrounded by a berm crowned with trees, but added tunnels for pedestrian access to the lawn and vehicular access to the stage. The bare performance platform became a new…
The Santa Fe Opera has upgraded and expanded their facilities to improve the resources that support their unprecedented ability to produce excellent works and seamlessly make daily change overs to perform 5 different operatic works in the Crosby Theatre, 1…
Weill Hall and Pavilion at Sonoma State University's Donald and Maureen Green Music Center has a 1,400-seat concert hall with a rear door that opens to the lawn outside providing excellent sound and spectacular views to an additional 3,000 people.…
The Ameris Bank Amphitheatre (Formerly Verizon Amphtheatre) at Encore Park is a 12,000-seat outdoor facility for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. With 5,000 covered and 7,000 lawn seats, the venue hosts a variety of national acts, from popular rock shows and…
The Mountain Laurel Center's new pavilion forms the core of a growing multi-use arts complex, and is a summer performance venue for the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras. As the seed project for this mountainside home for the arts, the…
Kirkegaard provided comprehensive acoustics and audio/video design consulting services for The Red Rocks Visitor Center in Morrison, Colorado. Integrated into the natural rock formations at the top of this world-renowned Amphitheater, interactive displays feature the geologic and music history of…
The Town of Cary, in cooperation with the North Carolina Symphony and the Regency Park office park, had produced a very successful summer music series for many years, attracting an audience that had grown from several hundred initially to many…
Review of acoustical design features and recommendations for this 5,000-seat, tensioned membrane outdoor performance venue.
The Benedict Music Tent is a performance facility at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. This 2050-seat space was designed primarily for music performance and rehearsal for groups including large symphony orchestra (110+ musicians), orchestra with chorus, chamber orchestra…
Acoustics, audio systems design, and mechanical noise and vibration control, for this 1,500-seat tent-covered/open air theatre with a full stagetower and orchestra shell. Skyline Stage is the only performance pavilion built directly on Chicago's lakefront. With its vaulted-roof structure, visible…
The Boston Symphony Orchestra wanted a 1200-seat concert hall at Tanglewood for several purposes: A rehearsal space for the Tanglewood Music Center student orchestra; a recital space for guest artists and members of the BSO during their summer residency; a…
Music has been part of the scene of Lake Harriet for over a century. The new bandshell is the fifth music facility put in place since 1888 and summer music concerts continue to this day. Each year, from early June…
