Music

Facilities & Resources

The Fine Arts Building is an acoustically designed structure that houses a gallery/recital hall, two pipe organs, an electronic music studio, digital piano/computer laboratory, practice rooms, studios, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, the Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery, musical instruments, and equipment for the Department of Music.

The two primary performance areas are Terry Concert Hall and Swisher theatre.  Terry Concert Hall, seating 400 persons, is the venue for ensemble concerts and solo recitals.  It provides the finest acoustical setting for small concerts in the area.  Operas, musicals, and other staged productions appear in the newly renovated Swisher Theatre.  This 400-seat house boasts a computerized rigging system, sound system and new costume shop, scene shop, design studio, makeup room, greenroom, and classroom.

The University’s Swisher Library houses an excellent music collection of 20,000 musical scores that covers a wide range of styles from different time periods.  The collection also includes more than 3,000 classical compact discs.

The Will Hoskins Electronic Music and Recording Studio have two separate stations for student use.  Composers writing music using software and hardware synthesizers, MIDI technology, and sound design use the Electronic Music station most often.  The station includes software by Native Instruments, Reason, Sibelius, Pro Tools, among others.  Recording producers and engineers in the Music Business program use the Recording Station most often for releases on Dolphinium Records.  Equipment highlights include a Neve mixer, 12 channels of Neve Microphone pre-amps, Otari ½” analog mixdown, Pro Tools, JBL Room Mode Correction Monitors, outboard processors by dbx, Neve, Drawmer and Orban.  The microphone closet features mics by Neumann, SE Electronics, Berhinger and Shure.