VSBA created this new organ studio for the Curtis Institute of Music.
We renovated and adapted spaces in Curtis’s historic main building to create the practice facility. The new chamber accommodates a custom-designed pipe organ while offering open studio space for the organ console and its users. The instrument itself was designed and installed by pipe organ builders Randall Dyer & Associates of Jefferson City, Tennessee.
We designed the organ studio to be acoustically separated from an historic meeting room on the floor above. Exterior street noise also had to be significantly reduced. In addition, a dedicated, acoustically-sensitive HVAC system was designed to meet requirements for minimal background noise.