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.