MSU celebrates new Music Building with ribbon cutting

Contact: Allison Matthews

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is celebrating its new state-of-the-art Music Constructing with an official ribbon slicing ceremony right this moment [Nov. 3].

The $21 million mission supplies a brand new area for the Division of Music, a part of MSU’s Faculty of Training.

MSU President Mark E. Keenum stated the college has loved “exceptional development” on campus over the previous decade and is “really blessed” as a result of members of the Mississippi State household have helped the establishment advance.

“What a beautiful event to rejoice the grand opening of our model new Music Constructing right here at Mississippi State College. If you happen to go searching, you see some exceptional issues on our campus. Proper subsequent door is a model new engineering constructing. We’ve got new roads and infrastructure; we now have rising endowed scholarships; rising endowed professorships. We’ve got quite a lot of momentum and pleasure, and it’s due to the nice individuals who love this college and respect a lot what this college means to our state, nation and the world,” Keenum stated.

The 37,000-square-foot facility at 124 Hardy Highway consists of lecture rooms, a choral rehearsal corridor, college workplaces, sound-proof apply rooms, recording studio, lecture/recital corridor, scholar lounge and administrative suite. Hoppy Allred with Allred Stolarski Architects in Ocean Springs is the design skilled for the ability, and Hattiesburg-based Mac’s Development Firm, Inc. is the overall contractor.

MSU Provost and Government Vice President David Shaw stated along with the constructing’s official opening, “We’re additionally celebrating the excellent imaginative and prescient, collaboration and arduous work of the numerous people who made this constructing a actuality.”

He referred to as the brand new Music Constructing a “shining instance” of the capital enhancements made at MSU lately.

Dean of the Faculty of Training Teresa Jayroe stated college students and school eagerly awaited the brand new facility, which “in live performance with the adjoining Kent Sills Band Corridor and marching apply facility, gives a aggressive and trendy complicated for our music majors and band members.

“We’re slicing this ribbon right this moment due to the imaginative and prescient of our President, Dr. Mark Keenum, who noticed the necessity and did what was obligatory to fulfill that want for our college students and for our college—and for that, Dr. Keenum, we’re all proud and grateful,” Jayroe stated. “All of us on the MSU Faculty of Training and the Division of Music promise to be good stewards of the constructing you’ve gotten entrusted to us.”

She additionally thanked the numerous supporters of the mission together with Shaw, the State Faculty Board and the Mississippi Legislature, in addition to alumni and donors.

Division of Music Head Daniel Stevens stated, “The great thing about our new music complicated is that it intensifies the driving power towards collective success and encourages collaboration for college and college students in analysis and inventive exercise.”

Right now’s celebration included vocal and instrumental performances by college and college students, together with excursions of the constructing.

For data on naming alternatives, endowments and different methods to assist MSU’s Division of Music, contact Trish Cunetto, director of growth for the Faculty of Training, at (662) 325-6762 or tcunetto@basis.msstate.edu.

MSU’s Faculty of Training is dwelling to 6 educational departments, one analysis unit and quite a few service models. For extra in regards to the faculty, go to www.educ.msstate.edu. Study extra in regards to the Division of Music at www.music.msstate.edu.

MSU is Mississippi’s main college, on-line at www.msstate.edu.