Recital Hall, Faculty of Music Building, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Recital Hall is the larger room within McGill University's new Faculty of Music Building, which opened in 2005. McGill is the home of Canada's largest comprehensive music school and provides both undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition to the normal teaching disciplines usually found in a music department, the McGill program includes an extensive and unique program in music recording technologies and multi-media research.

This expansion of the existing music facility, the historic Strathcona Music Building, consists of six levels, which include new rehearsal spaces, world-class research and production facilities for the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, and the Marvin Duchow Music Library. Three major performance areas: Recital Hall, Multimedia Room, and Opera Workshop; have been placed on the lower levels, well underground, to provide a starting point for maximum isolation of noise and vibration.

The 300-seat recital hall is used for medium-sized performances of music, dance and theater. A quite unique set of control rooms, each fully-equipped for the latest recording technologies, join the three performance spaces; each control room can be used, interchangeably, within any of the performance spaces.

Artec provided Design and Planning services covering Auditorium Design, Facility Planning, Specialized Performance Equipment Systems Design and Background Noise and Vibration Control consulting for this new facility. Architects for this project are Menkès Shooner Dagenais / Saucier+Perrotte.