From left to right: Baird Hall, Clemens Hall, Slee Hall, and the Center for the Arts

Baird Hall is the primary home of the Music Department. It hosts the Department Office, the Office of the Chairman, the Office of Student Programs, and the vast majority of faculty, staff, and TA offices, as well as practice rooms, ensemble rehearsal rooms, classrooms, Faculty and Student Lounges, and the Music Library. It is also the home of Baird Recital Hall, one of two primary venues for Music Department-sponsored concerts.

Classrooms are well-equipped with recently-updated audio and visual technology, including several large-screen TVs often used in courses on film music and multimedia study. The Baird Hall Macintosh lab, geared exclusively for undergraduate courses in electronic music, contains a dozen iMac computers running the most recent software for sound design and editing. Graduate students have access to Baird 202, an office containing a PC and an iMac (with all relevant software), printers, and a small lounge.

Shared practice rooms containing pianos are assigned to all Undergraduates majoring in Music. Additionally, Baird Hall houses the Percussion Studio, two organ practice rooms, and instrument storage facilities.

As a part of the "Academic Spine," Baird Hall is connected to the remainder of the UB North Campus through a series of elevated walkways and tunnels. Baird connects directly to Slee Hall (containing the Hiller Computer Music Studios, Slee Concert Hall, and additional rehearsal facilities and faculty offices) to the North and Clemens Hall (containing the offices and classrooms for such Humanities disciplines as English, Comparative Literature, and Modern Languages and Literatures) to the West.