Kirkegaard Associates
Kirkegaard Associates is an American acoustics design firm based in Chicago, Illinois, with an office in Boulder Colorado. As of 2010, the company is headed by Lawrence Kirkegaard[1] and employs 29 professionals in architecture, acoustics, music recording, mechanical and audio engineering, musical and theatrical performance. The company has been involved in the design of theatres, concert halls, opera houses, educational institutions, worship spaces, recording and broadcast studios, and other acoustically sensitive environments.
Selected projects
- Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, USA
- Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN, USA
- Bigelow Chapel at United Theological Seminary, New Brighton, MN, USA
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI, USA[2]
- Church of the Epiphany, Miami, FL, USA
- Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
- Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Franklin & Marshall College Music Hall, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (completed 2000)[3]
- Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, USA (completed 1994)[4][1]
- Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA USA (1986, completed 1992)[5]
- Pressure Point Recording Studios, Chicago, IL, USA
- Royal Festival Hall at South Bank Centre, London, UK[6]
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia
- Shalin Liu Performance Center[1]
In 2010 James R. Oestreich of The New York Times called Kirkegaard's 1994 Tanglewood Music Center "a major triumph" and called the acoustics of the recently opened Shalin Liu Performance Center "Superb".[1] Describing the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin, Oestreich wrote that "the acoustics, designed by Kirkegaard Associates, sounded notably bright yet mellow, clean yet reverberant".[2]
References
- ^ a b c d James R. Oestreich (2010). Summery Sounds of a New Hall Opening. The New York Times, June 11, 2010.
- ^ a b James R. Oestreich (2004). Everything's Up to Date in Madison, in Tune With Its New Overture Hall. The New York Times, November 23, 2004.
- ^ David Schuyler, Jane A. Bee (2004). Franklin and Marshall College. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 073853658X., p. 112.
- ^ William J. Cavanaugh, Gregory C. Tocci, Joseph A. Wilkes (2009). Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice. Wiley. ISBN 0470190523., pp. 167-168.
- ^ Ian B. Hoffman, Christopher Storch, Timothy J. Foulkes (2003). Halls for Music Performance: Another Two Decades of Experience 1982 - 2002. Acoustical Soc of America. ISBN 0974406724., pp. 48-49.
- ^ Lawrence Van Gelder (2004). Arts Briefing. The New York Times, July 29, 2004.
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