Conservatory of Music Facilities

Explore the Conservatory

Home of the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music Armerding Center for Music and the Arts

Armerding Center for Music and the Arts Quad View

Located at the heart of Wheaton’s campus, the Armerding Center for Music and the Arts invites musical participation and artistic engagement of all students, staff, and faculty. Named in honor of Hudson T. Armerding ’41, Wheaton College's fifth president and former Men's Glee Club member, the Armerding Center has a variety of state-of-the-art features that make it a world-class facility to learn and create music.

The Armerding Center features:

108-seat recital hall designed specifically for music performance
650-seat acoustically-engineered concert hall
bespoke 3-manual, 38-stop pipe organ, built by Taylor & Boody Organbuilders
sound-canceling, acoustically calibrated practice rooms and classrooms
recording and faculty studios
choral rehearsal room
the grand lobby

See Inside the Armerding Center

Beautiful Armerding Grand Lobby

State-of-the-Art Wheaton College Conservatory of Music Equipment

State-of-the-Art Equipment

Wheaton College Conservatory Strings students in Armerding Center Classroom

Acoustically Optimized Classrooms

Armerding Recital Hall

Choral concert rehearsal in Armending Hall

Armerding Concert Hall Concert

Armerding Concert Hall - seats 600

Wheaton's Largest Music Venue Edman Memorial Chapel

Built in 1960, Edman Memorial Chapel is the site of campus chapels, concerts, commencements, and various community-related events such as the Wheaton College Artist Series and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Wheaton.

Edman Chapel features:

seating for 2,400
four-manual, 50-stop, 70-rank Casavant Tracker Pipe Organ
large rehearsal hall for the band and orchestra
instructional space for harp, percussion, and string bass

See Inside Edman Chapel

Commencement Concert

Michael W Smith Concert in Edman Chapel

Soloist by Edman Chapel Organ

Christmas Festival Concert

Edman Chapel interior

Pierce Memorial Chapel

Once the College's principal chapel, Pierce Memorial Chapel today provides classrooms, offices, and rehearsal facilities for the Conservatory of Music and for hundreds of young musicians involved in Wheaton's Preparatory and Suzuki music programs in the Community School of the Arts. Pierce Chapel's auditorium is used for class chapels, lectures, concerts, and recitals.

Pierce Memorial Chapel features:

900-seat auditorium
Hendrickson Organ (2-manual tracker)

See Inside Pierce Chapel

Choir Performing in Pierce Chapel

Pierce Chapel Organ

Pierce Chapel interior

Pierce Memorial Chapel interior

Barrows Auditorium

This 500-seat auditorium is located on the east side of Billy Graham Hall and serves as a popular venue for conferences, recitals, lectures and other events.