Facilities
The Meadows School of the Arts boasts a multitude of environments for performing arts and learning.
Concert performances take place in Caruth Auditorium, O’Donnell Hall and Perkins Chapel, with opera productions in the Bob Hope Theatre.
An inspiring collection of more than 110,000 books and scores, 31,000 audio and video recordings, and 100,000 items in special collections are housed in the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library.
Music students benefit from 50 individual practice rooms and a laboratory for class instruction in piano, theory and improvisation. The school also features 30 Steinway grand pianos, three harpsichords and eight pipe organs.
Other facilities include an electronic music studio for research, creation, production and instruction of electro-acoustic music and an on-campus music therapy clinic that offers student therapists opportunities for faculty-supervised, clinical practicum experiences.
Caruth Auditorium
The 490-seat concert hall with an acoustical construction can be “tuned” for any type of musical presentation.
O’Donnell Hall
The versatile, 168-seat O’Donnell Hall is used as a classroom, lecture hall, recital hall and screening room for music, art history, photography and advertising classes and seminars.
