PERFORMING ARTS
Balboa Theatre Restoration
A beautiful, $26M restoration of this 1350 seat Historic Vaudeville and film theatre now features variable acoustics and a state-of-the-art sound system, all ideally suited for San Diego’s growing performing arts programming. Abandoned and shuttered since the 1970s, the hall opened to rave reviews in January 2008.
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music is a world-renowned educator and incubator of musicians, whose learning spaces often serve performance and recording. Renovations to various recital and recording spaces are essential to keeping up with leading-edge technologies.
CSUN Soraya
CSUN's new Valley Performing Arts Center is rapidly becoming one of the top three destinations in Southern California for symphony, opera, pop, and Broadway performances.
Colburn School
Adjacent to LA’s Disney Concert Hall, sits another acoustically-prominent hall. Although it is considerably smaller, Zipper Concert Hall is no less revered for its fine acoustics, which are entirely adjustable – to suit its increasingly varied musical fare. The hall is only one component of a broadly serviceable series of spaces including rehearsal, recital, music and dance practice spaces plus faculty studios.
Fuller Theological Seminary Chapel
In its 50-year history, the largest seminary in North America has been without its own worship space. Because its performing arts work is a key component of its mission, it will soon have its own versatile, variable acoustics performing arts chapel with a prominent pipe organ.
Garrison Theater & Music Facility
This $12M Performing Arts center features an historic renovation of a 700 seat multipurpose hall, a new 110 seat highly flexible Recital/Rehearsal/Lecture Hall, multiple Faculty Music Studios and Music Classrooms as well as practice rooms.
Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center
In the Fall of 2016, the USC Kaufman School enrolled its first cohort of BFA dance majors and classes commenced in this, 55,000sf state-of-the-art dance complex. The Bachelor of Fine Arts curriculum prepares the artist, the innovator and the entrepreneur.
Granada Theatre Restoration
In March 2008, the City of Santa Barbara opened this beautifully restored 1550-seat Historic Vaudeville and film theatre to rave reviews. The $45M restoration included variable acoustics and a state-of-the-art sound system which ideally equips the Granada as home for the Santa Barbara’s Symphony Orchestra, Film Festivals, opera and dance programs, traveling roadshows and conferences.
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao
No less a notable architect than Phillip Johnson declared it “The greatest building of our time”. Over 118,000sf of singularly remarkable exhibit space is found within the Guggenheim’s footprint. MCH provided acoustical and audiovisual consulting services for the entire facility, including its much-lauded 300 seat multi-use auditorium.
ISU Stephens PAC
This large complex is the singular venue for serious music north of Salt Lake City and east of Seattle. Included are a 1200 seat Concert Hall with variable acoustics, a Thrust Stage theater and a Black Box.
Mesa Arts Center
The largest Arts and Performing Arts Complex in Arizona includes 4 performance venues, an arts education facility, an art gallery and public meeting spaces, both indoors and out.
Music Academy of the West
The Music Academy of the West is a preeminent school for highly-gifted young classically-trained musicians from around the world.
NAU Kitt Recital Hall
Northern Arizona University's renovated and expanded Music Building on the NAU Flagstaff campus recently opened featuring the state-of-the art, 250-seat Kitt Recital Hall, rehearsal and practice room spaces for instrumental and vocal studies, as well as choral and instrument libraries.
Phoenix Orpheum Theatre
The historic, 1929 movie palace, once the tallest building in Phoenix, underwent a major renovation over several phases, bringing it from a tawdry hall to a wonderful, intimate theater successful at a wide variety of presentations from roadshows of all sorts, dance, drama and even a temporary home for the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra.
Phoenix Symphony Hall
The large 1972-era Symphony Hall needed renovations and ADA upgrades to serve as a proper venue alongside the newly expanded Phoenix Convention Center. Almost as an afterthought, the hall was deemed to require a new, quiet HVAC system but no acoustical renovation was to be undertaken for lack of funds. MCH found multiple opportunities within normally non-acoustical adjustments to effect a wonderfully new-sounding hall.
Popejoy Hall & Keller Recital Hall
The 2200 seat Popejoy Hall at the University of New Mexico underwent a major renovation whose result was was improved audience access, easier stage operations, and most importantly, amazingly versatile acoustics.
Robert Frost Auditorium
South Mt. Performing Arts Center
This two building project for Maricopa County Community Colleges provides wonderfully versatile facilities for teaching and performing in the arts. The acoustics of the main hall are recognized as a benchmark example for similar facilities in Phoenix while its architecture is widely praised by design professionals who have learned of the facility.
Thacher School PAC
This $17M Performing Arts center for a preparatory academy, features a 450 seat multipurpose hall, a choral rehearsal room, dance studio and music practice rooms. MCH provided full-scope acoustical and audiovisual consulting.
Tufts Granoff Music Center
The Granoff Music Center opened in February 2007 to remarkable enthusiasm as the new home of the Music Department at Tufts University. The centerpiece, Distler Performance Hall, is acclaimed for both performance and recording.
UC Davis Mondavi Center
Since the night the main hall opened to marvelous accolades from the Sacramento Bee and Michael Tilson Thomas when he conducted his San Francisco Symphony, the entire facility has been a major “hit” in California as well as a key component of performing arts on the UC Davis campus.
UCLA Geffen Playhouse
The original 1929 Masonic Temple underwent a $17 million dollar renovation and now boasts a fine 500-seat theater with balcony plus a new Second Stage Theater for rehearsals and small productions.
UCLA Royce Hall Renovation
After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, UCLA’s 1800 seat Royce Hall was thoroughly renovated and sensitively restored to its Romanesque form while dramatically improving its acoustic versatility.
UCSB CA Nanosystems Institute
The California Nanosystems Institute serves both the CNSI scientists as well as bleeding-edge media technologies research and presentation programs of UCSB’s MATP students and faculty. Included is a 3-story “immersion” theater for both interdisciplinary work in cognitive sciences and performance experimentation examining such topics as ambisonics, auralization and 3D visualizations of hypothetic structures.
UCSC Music Center
The UC Santa Cruz Music Center features an acoustically variable Recital Hall, two large rehearsal rooms and multiple faculty studios and practice rooms.
Vilar Center for Arts
In the center of this ski resort and sandwiched between an ice skating rink above, and an underground river below, this 520 seat hall features variable acoustics and sufficient volume to serve both professional orchestras and drama beautifully.
Virginia Piper Theater Renovation
Scottsdale, Arizona's first prominent arts and performing arts center, has undergone its first significant renovation in its 30 year history.
Wild Beast Music Pavilion
The design is highly novel acoustically, open, fluid and flexible, enabling a myriad of performance opportunities for every program in the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts. Despite the curious shaping, the sound is rich, warm and highly uniform.
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