Mairs Concert Hall
Since its opening in 2012, the Mairs Concert Hall has become recognized as one of Minnesota’s most outstanding music venues. This 317-seat, fully accessible recital hall is used for all Music Department concerts, including student recitals and featured guest performances. The hall’s design reflects its purpose: the interior shell suggests the elegant curvature of a string instrument, with an array of oak slats placed in mimicry of polyrhythms. A network of movable curtains behind the visible shell can adjust the hall’s warm acoustic to suit the Department’s many needs — more reverberant for choral music, cleaner for African drumming or pop combos, and anywhere in-between.
The hall houses two Steinway D concert grand pianos, an Allen Q370 organ, as well as state-of-the-art recording and broadcast equipment. Interested students can be trained and eventually hired as sound technicians for the hall. Department performances are regularly streamed on the Music Department’s , allowing friends and family across the globe to tune in with HD-quality audio and video.
Due to its frequent use by students, staff, and faculty, the Mairs Concert Hall is not available for rental at this time.