Music Facilities
Loyola's $13 million Communications/Music Complex represents the university's commitment to music education. The complex is a 115,000-square-foot, four-story building with state-of-the-art facilities for music and communications.
Concert Halls
The College of Music has several facilities in which music performances are presented:
- The 600-seat Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall can handle the full spectrum of performers from the solo recitalist to the full symphony orchestra.
- Nunemaker Auditorium, located in the Monroe Science Complex, is 400-seat
lecture/concert hall, which is used for the weekly recital hour, as
well as smaller ensemble performances.
- Holy Name of Jesus Church is an 800-seat cathedral style church, which
boasts wonderful acoustics perfectly suited for choral and organ performances.
Holy Name is the ideal site for the annual Christmas at Loyola concert.
- Jazz Underground is jazz concert series located in The Underground, the student lounge of the Danna Center (the university center). On selected Thursday evenings, the lounge becomes an intimate jazz club, featuring performances by local professional, faculty, and student musicians.
Music Library
A music library containing the university's collection of music reference materials, books, recordings, and periodicals.
Studios and Laboratories
- Acoustically-treated faculty studios and individual practice rooms.
- Two computer-assisted piano laboratories designed to allow class instruction
on individual electronic piano keyboards.
- An electronic music studio with the latest in electronic instruments, computers, and synthesizers.
- A state-of-the-art recording studio designed to produce professional quality recordings of individuals or ensembles.
- A computerized music theory laboratory with workstations designed to give students access to the latest composition and music theory software and electronic equipment.
- A multi-media training center with 15 multi-media stations, each consisting of a powerful computer with large LCD monitor, MIDI keyboard and interface, VCR, 8-track digital audio tape recorder, 16 channel audio mixing console, 24 channels of computer-based recording, state-of-the-art software, plus a teacher station with overhead video projector, sound system, laser printer and other audio equipment. The facility provides training in music theory, musicianship, improvisation, music technology, MIDI, analog and digital audio production, Internet and web site design, interactive graphics, video production, music education, and instructional design and delivery.
