Venues

Swarthout Recital Hall, a 272-seat facility with exceptional acoustics, is dedicated to faculty and student solo and chamber music performance and occasional chamber opera productions. Typically over 300 student, faculty, and/or visiting artist events are scheduled in Swarthout every year. Swarthout Recital Hall was remodeled and reopened in March 2015 after a full renovation. Swarthout Recital Hall on Facebook »

Click here to view the Reopening Celebration Series Booklet. 

Swarthout Recital Hall
Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive 
Lawrence, KS 66045

The Bales Organ Recital Hall is a 200-seat facility dedicated to organ teaching and performance. The facility contains a tracker action pipe organ built by Hellmuth Wolff and Associates of Montreal, Canada. Click here for more information.

Bales Organ Recital Hall 
1600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045

The Robert Baustian Theatre, located in 102 Murphy Hall, is home to many KU Opera performances, and also serves as a space for opera rehearsals, auditions and voice exams. It was originally used as the band/orchestra room for the School of Music, but the room received a makeover with the addition to Murphy Hall in 2000. KU School of Music alum David Holloway, now with the Santa Fe Opera, then bestowed a major gift for the express purpose of buying the rest of the necessary equipment for the theatre, and named it for his KU mentor Robert Baustian.

Robert Baustian Theatre 
Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive 
Lawrence, KS 66045

The Lied Center » is a multi-purpose, 2000-seat hall with exceptional acoustics, state-of-the-art sound system, rehearsal and dressing rooms, and administrative spaces. Many of the band, jazz, chorus, orchestra, and dance performances take place in this facility.

The Lied Center of Kansas
1600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS 66045