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Music
The MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building expansion will add much-needed space for practice, teaching, and performance in the School of Music and Dance.
Cost:
$17.8 million
Funding:
$10.2 million from private gifts; $7.6 million in state bonds
Timeline
- Nov. 3, 2006: Groundbreaking ceremonies
- Early 2007: Major construction began on two significant additions, the Leona DeArmond Academic Wing and the Thelma Schnitzer Performance Wing
- Spring 2008: Renovation of existing facilities begins
- Fall 2008: Completion
Project highlights
The expansion will add 29,000 square feet to the existing building, increasing its total size by about 50 percent. Currently, 500 music majors and 4,000 non-majors are squeezing into facilities originally designed for 300 music majors. It is the first new construction on campus for music since 1978.
Features
- New 3,000-square-foot ensemble rehearsal room for symphony and band.
- New dedicated practice/rehearsal spaces for the jazz program
- New dedicated percussion studio, practice rooms and master classrooms
- New music education teaching lab/65-seat classroom/small performance, high-tech recital space
- 8 new practice rooms for students
- 2 new 35-seat classrooms
- Renovation of existing choral rehearsal room into 120-seat Thelma Schnitzer Hall for performances, rehearsals and classes
- Enclosure/enhancement of the courtyard
- New south entrance
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