Lawrence's music facilities are housed within three adjoining buildings: the Music-Drama Center, the Memorial Chapel, and the Ruth Harwood Shattuck Hall of Music.
The Memorial Chapel is a 1,250-seat concert hall. Conservatory ensembles perform in the chapel as do the many artists who visit campus each year.
Shattuck Hall contains faculty studios, practice rooms, classrooms, percussion studios, a jazz rehearsal room, and two large ensemble rehearsal halls. The digital recording/editing studio is capable of recording performances in both the chapel and Harper Hall and has been used to produce the conservatory's own CD recordings of many of the ensembles. A central student lounge provides an ideal place for group study sessions, practice breaks, or simply meeting friends after a day of rehearsals.
The Music-Drama Center includes music and theatre classrooms, individual practice rooms, a computer lab, teaching studios, a black-box experimental theatre, a scene shop, dressing rooms, and the studios of WLFM, a Wisconsin Public Radio affiliate. The 250-seat Harper Hall is the site for most student and faculty recitals, as well as many pre-concert talks and various lecture series. Opera and music theatre productions are staged in Stansbury Theatre, a 500-seat proscenium theatre.
Instruments
A 1687 Andrea Guarneri violin was donated to Lawrence for use by faculty and students. Andrea Guarneri (1626-1698), the oldest of the celebrated family of violin makers, was an apprentice alongside Antonio Stradivari in the workshop of Nicolo Amati.
A 41-stop mechanical action organ built by John Brombaugh was installed in the Memorial Chapel in 1994.
Lawrence's 1815 Broadwood piano is nearly identical to the Broadwood owned and used by Beethoven. Recently, Lawrence acquired a second Broadwood piano and has begun to restore that instrument.