The Bowes Center sits on Van Ness Avenue with a view to City Hall’s dome from the 11th floor Barbro Osher Recital Hall. With its inherent flexibility, this beautiful room can be an event space or accommodate audiences of up…
The Betty Anne Rouse Bell Recital Hall is a 366-seat performance space for Berry College and its School of Music. This renovation of the 1928 Ford Auditorium transformed a worn and acoustically problematic room both visually and functionally and made…
The Linde Center for Music and Learning was conceived as a complement to the huge Koussevitzky Music Shed and intimate Seiji Ozawa Concert Hall, which seats 1,100 patrons within the hall, plus 1,000 on the lawn beyond the operable rear…
This transformative project finally gives DePaul's School of Music a facility that matches the quality of its faculty and students. The first phase is the Holtschneider Performance Center, a new 144,000 gsf music building with a unique 505-seat concert hall…
The venerable Oregon Bach Festival has long presented concerts of Bach, his contemporaries, and modern music that draws inspiration from early and baroque music. For years, OBF rehearsed and performed at various venues around Eugene, relying heavily on the University…
The Jazz Market repurposed a shuttered market, creating a flexible 370-seat auditorium with a gracious lobby and an education/warm-up room within the shell of the old building. The client set clear priorities, demanding excellent natural acoustics in the auditorium while…
This renovation focused on transforming a 35,000 gsf Designated City Landmark into functional rehearsal, performance, support, and office spaces for the San Francisco Opera. Kirkegaard's design services encompass room acoustics, sound isolation design, and mechanical noise and vibration control consulting…
Schroeder Hall is a 240-seat recital hall that is the jewel of the Academic Building and is the primary performance venue for the Music Department. Schroeder Hall, named after the piano playing friend in the comic strip Charlie Brown and…
Since the early ’90s, Indiana University (IU) has repeatedly called upon Kirkegaard to oversee the acoustics design of expanded facilities for the Jacobs School of Music, which prides itself as one of the largest and most prestigious music schools in…
Within this 1930 Tudor Revival, a comprehensive renovation provided office & instructional spaces for a variety of programs. Kirkegaard's primary focus was the conversion of a gymnasium into a 250-seat Recital Hall for the Department of Music. The insertion of…
Rubendall Recital Hall is a 250-seat room shoehorned into a Dickinson College century-old structure. First renovated from a gymnasium building in 1981, the Weiss Center for the Arts' latest transformation features a highly flexible interior, lightweight recital screen, fabric ceiling,…
Room acoustics, mechanical noise, and audio/video systems consulting services for the home of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, integrated into a downtown historic building. This 335-seat recital / concert hall integrates a large window into the upstage wall, enhancing the…
Situated inside a 100-year old carriage house, Brown's Grant / Fulton Hall has been transformed into a new state-of-the-art recital/classroom space serving conventional and electronic ensembles. As the music department's primary performance venue, the room's technical infrastructure accommodates multi-channel playback/surround…
Bowdoin’s new music facility is a unique adaptive reuse project, converting the 100-year-old McKim Meade and White natatorium into a 285-seat concert/recital hall. The narrow building has a lobby at one end, a rehearsal room at the other, and the…
The Roselle Center for the Arts is a welcoming new facility, designed to blend in with the federal-style brick building that are typical of the University of Delaware’s campus. It is the school’s primary performance venue for the theater and…
Situated on the north end of the College Park Campus of the University of Maryland, the 318,000-square-foot Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center functions as a “village” of ten interconnecting buildings that spread across 17 acres, bringing together the University’s School…
From 1992 to 1999, Kirkegaard contributed to a comprehensive reworking of the facilities for the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. The first step was the conversion of a 100-year-old gymnasium into the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center, with a choral…
Room acoustics, mechanical noise, and audio/video systems consulting services for the new campus music facility, including classroom space, a recital hall, and practice rooms. The recital hall was designed to take advantage of the building's stunning view of Coy Pond…
