The Institute of Music

This outstanding, two-story facility can accommodate just over 1330 people. Featuring a main floor, curved balcony, and accessible seating, Kresge Auditorium features interior brick walls with warm blue and grey carpeting and seating that were renovated in 2020. The spacious stage is framed in striking natural oak paneling and accented with scarlet curtains. Kresge Auditorium serves as the performance space for the Green Guest Artist series, as well as DePauw University's band, choirs, orchestra and jazz ensemble. In addition, it houses the magnificent J. Stanford Smith concert organ.

With a capacity of 365, Moore Theatre features a wrap-around stage.  The theatre's lower level includes rooms for properties, costume design and storage, make-up, scenery construction and storage, laundry spaces and dressing rooms.  This facility is home to the annual DePauw Theatre and DePauw Opera productions. Moore Theatre offers three stages, a scene shop, dressing rooms and a full orchestra pit. The fixed seating, carpet, lighting and curtains were renovated in 2018.

With seating for 220, Thompson Recital Hall is enhanced by oak paneling and newly renovated seating and carpet. Thompson Recital Hall is a wonderful venue for chamber music concerts and solo recitals. It features a 40-foot semi-circular stage with a Von-Beckerath organ.

Kerr Theatre is DePauw's very own blackbox theatre. The easily adjustable space is ideal for student productions, intimate rehearsals, and creative designs. The space is located directly across from Moore Theatre, allowing it to be easily used in association with the amenities unique to Moore Theatre (e.g. the green room, dressing rooms, costume shop and scene shop.)

The Music Instructional Technology Center (MITC) offers opportunities to explore computer music technologies for composition, performance, and research, and provides a variety of digital audio services to assist teaching, learning and research for the Institute of Music and other departments.

MITC features a specialized lab-classroom equipped with tools for digital music synthesis, audio production, and score editing. Co-located within the Music Library of the Judson and Joyce Green Center for the Performing Arts, the MITC Lab is available for use by the university community during the Music Library's regular hours. Two mirrored workstations are located in the lower level of the Music Library, to provide the Lab's functionality when courses are in-session in the Lab.

The recording studio is centrally located in the Green Center for the Performing Arts. In the studio, there is a large recording room, a small recording room/isolated booth, and a control room. There are soundproof windows peering into the studio from the Great Hall and there are double paned windows between the three rooms within the studio. The recording studio is designed with state-of-the-art soundproofed walls that reflect sound in a way that adds very little reverberation and does not introduce phasing issues. This, along with our high fidelity recording equipment, allow for very accurate recordings.

Students can access the recording studio by contacting the staff recording engineer and submitting a proposal for their recording project. Recording sessions are granted on a first come-first serve basis, subject to the availability of the staff recording engineer and their student employees.

The recording studio is used to create high quality audio recordings of many different types of music, including but not limited to, jazz, classical, and pop. There is also the ability to record video from multiple camera angles to create music videos.