Kirkegaard Associates
Kirkegaard Associates is an American acoustics design firm founded by Lawrence Kirkegaard, based in Chicago, Illinois, with an office in Denver, Colorado. The company is headed by President/Owner Joseph W A Myers<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and employs 12 professionals in architecture, acoustics, music recording, mechanical and audio engineering, musical and theatrical performance. The company has been involved in the design of theatres, concert halls, opera houses, educational institutions, worship spaces, recording and broadcast studios, and other acoustically sensitive environments.
Selected projectsEdit
- Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, USA
- Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, TN, USA
- Bigelow Chapel at United Theological Seminary, New Brighton, MN, USA
- San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI, USA<ref name=NYT04>James R. Oestreich (2004). Everything's Up to Date in Madison, in Tune With Its New Overture Hall. The New York Times, November 23, 2004.</ref>
- Church of the Epiphany, Miami, FL, USA
- Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
- Petronas Philharmonic Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Franklin & Marshall College Music Hall, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (completed 2000)<ref>David Schuyler, Jane A. Bee (2004). Franklin and Marshall College. Arcadia Publishing. Template:ISBN., p. 112.</ref>
- Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, USA (completed 1994)<ref>William J. Cavanaugh, Gregory C. Tocci, Joseph A. Wilkes (2009). Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Practice. Wiley. Template:ISBN., pp. 167-168.</ref><ref name=NYT10/>
- Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA USA (1986, completed 1992)<ref>Ian B. Hoffman, Christopher Storch, Timothy J. Foulkes (2003). Halls for Music Performance: Another Two Decades of Experience 1982 - 2002. Acoustical Soc of America. Template:ISBN., pp. 48-49.</ref>
- Pressure Point Recording Studios, Chicago, IL, USA
- Royal Festival Hall at South Bank Centre, London, UK<ref>Lawrence Van Gelder (2004). Arts Briefing. The New York Times, July 29, 2004.</ref>
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia
- Shalin Liu Performance Center<ref name=NYT10>James R. Oestreich (2010). Summery Sounds of a New Hall Opening. The New York Times, June 11, 2010.</ref>
In 2010 James R. Oestreich of The New York Times called Kirkegaard's 1994 Tanglewood Music Center "a major triumph" and called the acoustics of the recently opened Shalin Liu Performance Center "Superb".<ref name=NYT10/> Describing the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin, Oestreich wrote that "the acoustics, designed by Kirkegaard Associates, sounded notably bright yet mellow, clean yet reverberant".<ref name=NYT04/>