Facilities
Music Facilities
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The UC Santa Cruz Division of the Arts proudly welcomes you to our state-of-the-art Music Center, set on the edge of the great meadow overlooking the Monterey Bay.
Neighboring the Theater Arts Center, Digital Arts Research Center, and Baskin Visual Arts, the $21 million Music Center anchors a cluster of arts facilities located above the Great Meadow. The facility offers performance venues as well as classrooms and teaching studios outfitted with advanced audio-visual technology and with state-of-the-art digital audio, video, and recording systems.
The center was designed by award-winning Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock, known worldwide for creating buildings that blend in with their environment. Predock described the UCSC Music Center as a combination of “the poetic topographic elements of the UCSC campus — ravine, meadow, and rocky outcropping — organized in a choreographed sequence to form a music village where the great meadow meets the edge of the redwood forest.”
The building is arranged around a central plaza embracing stunning vistas of the tree-ringed meadow and the Monterey Bay. The center’s courtyards, hallways, and sightlines evoke the gullies, canyons, and gentle slopes of the surrounding hillsides.
Music Center Map
Building Opened January 1997
Facility Spaces:
- 386-seat Recital Hall
- 13 teaching studios
- 20 practice rooms
- 5 classrooms
- Recording studio
- Rnsemble rehearsal room
- 60-seat performance studio
- Music library
- Percussion studio
- Office space
Facts & Figures
20
Practice Rooms
386
seats in Recital Hall
60
seat performance studio
128
square foot dressing rooms
132
Strand MD-80 lighting dimmers in Recital Hall
13
teaching studios
Recital Hall
- Can be tuned to customize acoustics for different styles of music
- 386-seat Recital Hall
- An orchestra pit floor
- State-of-the-art audio and video equipment
- Audio and video links to an adjoining recording studio and classrooms
Booking Information
- Booking process:
- Bookings for the academic year can be made after finalization of the Music Department’s production schedule, typically by the end of February in the previous academic year.
- Rate information:
- A basic rate sheet available from the Music Production Supervisor.
- Costs subject to change and confirmed only upon agreement between the user and the Music Department.
Technical Information
- Custom-designed rooms
- 13 teaching studios
- 20 practice rooms
- 5 classrooms
- Recording studio
- Ensemble rehearsal room
- 60-seat performance studio
- Music library
- Percussion studio
- Office space
- Insulated walls that are all at least 10 to 14 inches thick
Facilities Contact
Bill Coulter, Recording Engineer
billski@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-2292
x4139
Susan Gautieri, Music Center Facilities Manager
susang@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-5475
Dave Morrison, Technical Director, Music Production Supervisor, Recital Hall Manager
davemorr@ucsc.edu
(831) 459-4238