Spaces
Performance Spaces
Stretansky Concert Hall
Stretansky Concert Hall is a 320-seat performance venue acoustically designed to optimize the technical sound produced by the singing voice and various musical instruments. It is a part of the $7.5 million improvements made to the university’s Heilman Hall, which created the Cunningham Center for Music and Art in 2002.
Weber Chapel Auditorium
Weber Chapel Auditorium is the university's largest venue. It seats 1,500 and hosts numerous campus events, including guest lecturers and visiting artist performances as well as weekly chapel services. The auditorium features one of the largest revolving stages on the East Coast with performance facilities on one side and chancel on the other. The venue’s orchestra pit provides space for the instrumental needs of a standard Broadway show.
Degenstein Center Theater
The Degenstein Center Theater houses a modern 450-seat proscenium teaching theater-center with a counterweight fly system. In the theater’s orchestra pit, there is enough room for a small orchestra.
Labs/Practice Rooms
Heilman Rehearsal Hall
Heilman Rehearsal Hall accommodates large ensemble rehearsals.
Practice Rooms
Practice rooms are located in a dedicated wing, allowing students the ability to practice even while classes and performances are being presented in other areas of the building. Each room is appointed with a piano, acoustical panels for aural feedback and sound absorption panels for volume control. The department offers larger rooms for small ensemble practice and three Steinway piano practice rooms that are specifically for use by piano majors.
Percussion Rooms
Susquehanna offers two well-appointed percussion rooms. One is for keyboard percussion, featuring two 5 octave Marimba One marimbas. The second space is for battery percussion practice and storage. This room contains a set of tympani and numerous snare drums, cymbals, drum sets and ethnic percussion. It also houses marching percussion for stadium band. These rooms are available to percussion majors for lessons, practice time, and ensemble rehearsals.
Weber Chapel Auditorium Music Technology Center
A state-of-the-art music technology center was established in the basement of Weber Chapel Auditorium and offers three separate studios. The Susquehanna University Recording/Computer Music Studio serves many purposes—in addition to a large and acoustically secure sound recording room, it features an analog recording station, a Macintosh/ProTools-based digital recording station, a Windows-based computer music composition station with the latest in sound sampling and synthesis software, and a "real-time" computer music system, running the MAX software development platform, which can be used to create interactive music and multimedia for live performance.
Piano/Computer Music Lab
Housed in the Cunningham Center for Music and Art, the lab hosts piano lab courses as well as Introduction to Music Technology. The lab features 10 Yamaha digital pianos and 10 Macintosh computers running software including Finale, GarageBand and iMovie. When classes are not being held, it is open to music majors as a fully equipped computer lab.
