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For concert schedules and ticket information, please access the site of the Lippes Concert
Hall Box Office.
SLEE HALL
Slee Hall, connected to Baird Hall (home of the University at Buffalo Department of Music) as part of the North Campus Academic Spine, plays a crucial role in the creation and presentation of music at the University at Buffalo. Contained within is the 670 seat Lippes Concert Hall, a beautiful hall with a variable acoustical structure which serves as the home to a number of notable concert series:
* Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle: This series of six concerts, presented annually since 1955, features the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets
* Slee Sinfonietta: our resident professional chamber orchestra presents four concerts each academic year, specializing in neglected and rarely-performed repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the avant-garde work of our time
* Organ Recital Series
* Faculty Recital Series
* Concerts by the UB Choir, UB Chorus, UB Symphony, and UB Symphonic Band
* Slee Visiting Artists Series: a number of the world's most notable interpreters
have presented in Lippes Concert Hall in recent years, including the Arditti
String Quartet, Ensemble InterContemporain, Champs d'Action, and soloists including
Lynn Harrell, Ursula Oppens, Robert Black, and Pierre-Yves Artaud, among numerous
others.
C.B. Fisk Organ
The centerpiece of Lippes Concert Hall is the C.B. Fisk organ, one of the premiere teaching organs on the East Coast. It is the largest mechanical-action organ at any college or university within 250 miles and is one of a very few organs to combine a fully mechanical stop action with a state-of-the-art computerized electronic combination action. It is, however, most remarkable for its timbral and registral diversity, equally at home in the repertories of the North-German Baroque, 19th Century France, or the early 20th Century.Hiller Computer Music Studios
Slee Hall also houses the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios, one of the world's foremost research centers for interactive electronic music composition. Directed by Professor Cort Lippe, the Hiller Studios is at the cutting edge of new music technology: * Two outstanding computer music studios containing the most recent hardware and software for the creation of electronic music, specializing in particular in real-time signal processing in live, interactive environments
* Works created by faculty and students in the Hiller Studios are performed at the most important new music festivals across the globe
* Software frequently undergoes beta-testing in our facilities, making the University at Buffalo among the very best academic institutions for acquiring the skills for next generation technology
* A "vintage" studio containing hardware and software of the not-so-distant past
* Visiting composers and technicians offer courses and tutorials in the most recent software applications
* Our graduates have gone on to serve as faculty members in academic institutions in the USA, Europe, and Japan.
Recording Studio and Additional Facilities
In addition to the resources of the Hiller studios, Slee Hall contains the necessary resources and facilities to enable recording projects of the highest caliber, including live concert recordings, edited recording sessions in the Concert Hall, and recordings in our soundproof studio. All concerts on campus are professionally recorded by a staff overseen by the Director of Music Technology.Slee Hall also contains a rehearsal space for large ensembles, faculty and TA offices, the Concert Office and Box Office, and storage for the Department's harpsichord and pianoforte.
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