School of Music Venues
The School of Music presents as many as 300-400 concerts, student recitals and performances during the course of the academic year. All of these events are accessible as individual concerts or part of a series on the Events calendar.
The Lied Center of Kansas
The Lied Center is a multi-purpose, 2000-seat hall with exceptional acoustics, state-of-the-art sound system, rehearsal and dressing rooms, and administrative spaces. Many of the band, jazz, chorus, orchestra, and dance performances take place in this facility.
The Lied Center of Kansas
1600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045
Swarthout Recital Hall
Swarthout Recital Hall, a 350-seat facility with exceptional acoustics, is dedicated to faculty and student solo and chamber music performance and occasional chamber opera productions.
Swarthout Recital Hall
Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045
The Bales Organ Recital Hall
The Bales Organ Recital Hall is a 200-seat facility dedicated to organ teaching and performance. The facility contains a tracker action pipe organ built by Hellmuth Wolff and Associates of Montreal, Canada.
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Bales Organ Recital Hall
1600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045
Robert Baustian Theatre
The Robert Baustian Theatre, located in 102 Murphy Hall, is home to many KU Opera performances, and also serves as a space for opera rehearsals, auditions and voice exams. It was originally used as the band/orchestra room for the School of Music, but the room received a makeover with the addition to Murphy Hall in 2000. KU School of Music alum David Holloway, now with the Santa Fe Opera, then bestowed a major gift for the express purpose of buying the rest of the necessary equipment for the theatre, and named it for his KU mentor Robert Baustian.
Robert Baustian Theatre
Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045
