Facilities

The University of Connecticut’s Department of Music is housed in a series of connected buildings that provide excellent facilities for teaching, study, and performance. The music complex includes classrooms, rehearsal halls, faculty studios, individual and ensemble practice rooms, instrument storage, a computer laboratory, a keyboard laboratory, and a professional recording control room and mastering studio. In addition to an extensive inventory of pianos and orchestral instruments, the department owns a large collection of early wind, string, keyboard, and percussion instruments used by the Collegium Musicum for performance of Renaissance and Baroque period music.

The Music & Dramatic Arts Library houses more than 72,000 books, playscripts, journals, musical scores, sound and video recordings, and online resources related to research in music and dramatic arts. The library contains individual and group listening facilities, individually assigned carrels for graduate students, and electronic research tools. More information is available at http://www.lib.uconn.edu/music.

Most student and faculty performances are scheduled in von der Mehden Recital Hall, adjacent to the music facilities. Events involving large numbers of musicians and listeners are scheduled at Jorgenson Center for the Performing Arts, a 2,500 seat concert hall on the northwest corner of the university campus.