Music Building Addition & Renovation

The Billman Music Pavilion consists of 37,000 sq ft of new space with 8,500 sq ft of renovated space. One of the most significant benefits of the Billman Music Pavilion is the 40 percent increase in overall facilities. The new space includes several large rehearsal rooms, including a jazz rehearsal and performance hall, a large rehearsal hall for bands and orchestras, a medium rehearsal hall, and a percussion rehearsal room.

Beneath the new rehearsal rooms is state-of-the-art technology for recording and mixing equipment for film and video music. There is also a new lobby, teaching studios, faculty offices, and 45 new practice rooms.

The team successfully overcame many challenges in the course of this project, including repeated delays on board actions, navigating the design/build installation of a major array of acoustic materials including associated long lead times, a two-month delay caused by COVID-19 shutdowns, construction of “floating” concrete floors, and sensitivity of the acoustic separation which required extensive BIM coordination.

The overall result is a quiet, protected environment for interactive classwork, practicing, rehearsing, recording and performing. Flexible, “right-sized,” and artistically and scientifically advanced, the new and renovated spaces are poised to meet the needs of nearly 70 full-time faculty, 600 full-time students working on music degrees.