Facilities

Packard Hall
Imagine a sunlit building alive with music all the time - performances, rehearsals, lessons, coaching sessions and course work.
Packard Performance Hall is an acoustic masterpiece. Seating 300, the hall is designed so that no member of the audience is more that 50 feet away from the performers, and there isn't an inferior seat in the house!

Music Department classrooms are located on the ground level. The five “smart” classrooms are equipped with up-to-date audio-visual equipment, viewing screens, and at least one piano, usually two.  Faculty offices and studios are on the main level.  Our instructors share the five teaching studios located on both levels.  One large classroom, with its wooden floors, doubles as a rehearsal space for our large choirs and a performance space for small, intimate programs.

Constructed in 1976, The Sperry S. and Ella Graber Packard Hall of Music and Art was given by David Packard in memory of his parents. The building is shared by the Art and Music Departments. Edward Larrabee Barnes, distinguished New York architect, designed the building in a modernist style. Like his Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Dallas Museum of Art, Packard Hall is organized around a barrel vaulted space, a hallway gallery in which senior majors regularly show their work. The spaces above ground floor have large balconies looking out towards Pikes Peak and the Front Range of the Rockies.

Classroom Room Use Policy

Students: please take note of the informaton below regarding your use of classroom space in the building.

1. Classroom keys are issued to faculty, studio instructors, and ensemble directors only.  No key will be issued or loaned to any student, nor should a faculty member entrust a key to any student at any time.
2. Any student music group or ensemble must be officially sponsored by a music faculty member to obtain permission to use the classrooms. The same goes for individual students.  A list of sponsored ensembles and eligible students is available at the music library and the music office.
3. A faculty member who wishes to sponsor a group ensemble or individual student should do so formally in consultation and coordination with the Associate Chair of the music department.
4. The library staff or campus safety (ext. 6707) will enable classroom access only to students whose names appear on the official list.
5. No amplified instruments may be played anywhere in Packard Hall. Exception will be granted to a musician under the direct supervision of a music department faculty member and/or studio instructor.
6. For further information or inquiry, please contact the Associate Chair of the music department.  

Percussion Room Use Policy

Room 19, the Percussion Room, is only available to private percussion students, or those students participating in the Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, or Tiger Jazz ensembles. A list of authorized students is kept in the Music Library. Library staff have a key and will open the door for qualified students.