NEW PRACTICE ROOMS IN PRACTICE WING

To meet the demand for available practice spaces, the Shepherd School of Music has begun work on two additional practice rooms in the upstairs practice wings in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, increasing the number of practice rooms to forty-seven. The Shepherd School's forty-seven practice rooms feature ten-foot ceilings with variable intensity fluorescent lighting with remote ballasts and reduced-noise air conditioning, just as in the teaching studios.

In addition, practice rooms feature both carpeted and wood parquet floors, and most rooms contain a piano and a mirror. Sound isolation between rooms was a primary concern.

The estimated date of completion on the two additional practice rooms will be before Orientation Week which starts on August 15th.