Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions

Facilities

In addition to our multiple departmental performance and rehearsal spaces delineated below, we utilize diverse facilities throughout New York University and performance venues in New York City with regular performances at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Tenri Hall, selected Broadway and off-Broadway Theatres and acclaimed Jazz Clubs. Our main department space is in the heart of the NYU's Greenwich Village campus surrounding historic Washington Square Park.

The Kimmel Center, a facility that opened in Fall 2003, houses eighteen acoustically treated practice rooms, rehearsal rooms, a recital hall, chamber music spaces, the five hundred forty seat Eisner-Lubin auditorium, and the state-of-the-art Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The Skirball Center includes a magnificent theater with close to 900 seats in which we present Symphony Orchestra concerts, Music Theatre and Opera productions, Department-wide meetings and special events.

Overall Performance and Rehearsal facilities at Washington Square:

Frederick Loewe Theatre (300 seats)

Provincetown Playhouse (135 Seats)

Black Box Theatre (75 movable seats)

Recital Room 779 (50 movable seats)

Three Dance Studios at 35 West 4th Street

Penthouse Ensemble and Percussion Facility

30 Practice Rooms at 35 West 4th Street

15 Ensemble and Teaching Studios at 35 West 4th Street

10 rehearsal studios at the Tower building

Multiple large and small rehearsal rooms at the Tower Building on two large floors

The Kimmel Center:

18 Practice Rooms

4 large ensemble rooms

Shorin Recital Room (150 movable seats)

The Eisner-Lubin Auditorium (540 seats)

Skirball Theatre (862 seats)

A Dance Studio

A dozen flexible rehearsal spaces including one rehearsal space that matches the exact dimension of the Skirball Theatre stage

Bobst Library (total 4.3 million volumes):

Music Holdings in Bobst Library:

Music Books (46,000)

Music Scores (52,000)

Current Music Periodical Subscriptions (300)

LP Recordings (18,500)

Music CD's (33,000)

Audio Visual Items (93,000)

Technology Spaces:

Studios

Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media

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Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions - 35 W. 4th Street, Suite 777 - New York, NY 10012 - (212) 998-5424