Our Locations

560 Music Center

About

The 560 Music Center was built in 1930 as the Shaare Emeth Temple. This beautiful Art Deco building was home to the Saint Louis Conservatory and School for the Arts (CASA) from 1974-1994. Following the merger by the St. Louis Symphony and CASA in 1994, the building housed the St. Louis Symphony Community Music School. In September 2001, the Community Music School joined with Webster University. In October 2006, Washington University took possession of the facility, and the renovated facility opened to our students in the fall of 2007.

Function

Our applied music teaching, rehearsals, and many of our performances take place at the 560 Music Center. The building contains three performance spaces that can accommodate solo recitals to full orchestra concerts: the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall seats 1,100, the Ballroom/Theater up to 300, and the Recital Hall 75. This facility was designed specifically for the needs of our applied music program and includes faculty studios, four ensemble rehearsal rooms, an instrument storage room, practice modules, and a comfortable student lounge. If you have questions about the Department of Music or the applied music facility, stop in room 107 at the 560 Music Center and ask our administrative staff.

Music Class Students Access Hours:
Practice Rooms and Lesson Studios:
Monday - Friday; 8:30 am - midnight;
Sat/Sun: 9:00 am - midnight
Closed on University Holidays and adjusted hours over Winter Break

Summer Hours: 9:00 am - 10:00 pm M-F; Noon- 6:00 pm Sat/Sun

You must bring your WashU ID to swipe into these locations.

Seigle Hall

About

Centrally located across the great lawn from Olin Library, Harry and Susan Seigle Hall is a dynamic, interdisciplinary learning center for the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Law.

Function

A suite on the first floor of Seigle Hall contains offices for musicology, composition and theory faculty, and a seminar room for smaller classes and meetings.

Contact Jessica Flannigan at FLANNIGANJ@WUSTL.EDU or 314-935-5566 with Department of Music questions.

Lopata House

About

The Lucy and Stanley Lopata House was dedicated on October 20, 2001. Stanley Lopata graduated from WashU College of Arts & Sciences in 1935. Mr. and Mrs. Lopata, founders of Carboline Corporation, grew the basement chemical laboratory into a $46 million business. Together, they were longtime friends of the university, and especially the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Other memorials to them on campus are the Lopata Courtyard in Simon Hall, the Lopata Classic, a men’s basketball tournament held every fall, and Lopata Plaza.

Function

The basement of Lopata House contains our academic classrooms, production, recording, and piano labs, and seven practice rooms.