Facilities
The School of Music is housed in the Sam A. Wilson Building and the Massey Performing Arts Center.
The Sam A. Wilson Building, completed in 1994, contains the School of Music offices, music faculty studios/ offices and instructional/ rehearsal space. The lower level of this three-floor structure contains practice rooms, a piano lab, and two music technology labs. An organ studio containing a small Wicks pipe organ is also housed in this building.
The Massey Performing Arts Center is a two-level structure, which houses both instructional and performance space. The upper level contains Massey Concert Hall, a multipurpose space with a seating capacity of 1000. The hall has a 39-rank three-manual Wicks pipe organ, and two Baldwin concert grand pianos.
The lower level of the Massey Performing Arts Center houses teaching studios, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, practice rooms, and Harton Recital Hall. The recital hall seats 100 and has two Baldwin grand pianos.
Our campus also is home to the historic Belmont Carillon in the Belmont Bell Tower.
The music section of Lila D. Bunch Library includes more than 8,129 books, 11,377 scores, and subscribes to multiple on-line resources. The Listening/ Viewing Center, also housed in the music section of the library, contains more than 6,675 compact discs, 9,000 LP recordings, 3,707 cassette tapes, 139 laser discs, 82 DVDs, computer software and CD ROM programs, and 3,852 video cassettes, as well as listening and viewing facilities and an electronic keyboard for score reading. The music library is under the supervision of a full-time music librarian.
The historic Belmont Mansion is also home to many music performances. Restored to its elegance and grandeur of the 1800s, the grand salon is the scenic backdrop for many faculty and graduate student recitals.
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