Facilities

Schambach Center

Dedicated in the fall of 1988 with gala concerts by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and by Bobby McFerrin, the Hans H. Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts contains the 700-seat Carol Woodhouse Wellin Performance Hall, two large rehearsal halls, 15 practice rooms, faculty offices and classrooms. Facilities for music also include a well-equipped studio for electronic music; a music library that contains more than 25,000 records and compact discs; state-of-the-art listening and video equipment; microcomputers and synthesizers that assist students in ear training and in instruction in music theory; and a laboratory for experiments in the psychology of music.

Wellin Hall

The Carol Woodhouse Wellin Performance Hall is the center of concert life at Hamilton. About twenty student, faculty and professional concerts take place in this 700-seat auditorium every semester (including the Performing Arts at Hamilton series). These concerts draw audiences from the college and surrounding communities. Also, the Oratorio Society and Orchestra rehearse weekly on Wellin's stage.

Music Library

The Music Library has a catalogued collection of more than 25,000 recordings (about 5,000 are compact discs) of classical, jazz and world music, and an uncatalogued collection of Broadway musicals. Ten stations provide state-of-the-art listening equipment. In addition, music scores are loaned to the Music Library each term from Hamilton's main library. Open every day during the semester, the Music Library is an important resource for both music and non-music students.

Practice Rooms

The Music Department has 15 practice rooms. Seven of these rooms have baby grand pianos, the majority of which are Steinways. Most of these rooms are open to all students, while some are only available to students who are taking solo performance lessons.

Electronic Music Studios

Samuel Pellman, Director of the Studio for Contemporary Music, offers two studio courses: Music for Contemporary Media (257) and Electronic Arts Workshop (377). In addition, students also use the studio for a variety of projects that include recording and/or composing.

What's inside the studio? Come see!

Instruments

Instruments of various kinds are available for student use without charge. The College possesses several Steinway grand pianos, a variety of wind, brass and string instruments, a two-manual Noack organ (in the College Chapel), a Steinmeyer one-manual Positif organ, a two-manual Dowd harpsichord, a Fudge clavichord and many gamelan instruments.