Music Facilities
The innovative Borland Center for Music and Theatre at Concordia University, Nebraska is home to enhanced practice rooms, performance spaces and acoustics to inspire your creativity, refine your musical abilities and prepare you to create music that can transform lives. The Borland Center features:
- A recital hall containing a 3-manual, 38-rank Casavant organ and a Steinway Model D 9-foot concert grand piano
- 3 ensemble rehearsal rooms
- 11 teaching studios
- 22 practice rooms
- A percussion studio
- A piano lab
- A black box theater
- A soundproof recording studio
Organ students also have access to the 3-manual, 47-rank organ by Orgelbau Kuhn of Männedorf (Switzerland) in Weller Chapel and to the 3-manual, 50-rank Schlicker organ at St. John Lutheran Church, across the street from Concordia.
Borland Center
Concordia’s Borland Center contains a 180-seat recital hall, rehearsal spaces and practice rooms, many containing pianos from the world-renowned manufacturer Steinway. Selected practice rooms also have libraries of ensemble and organ music.
Performance Venues
Our large vocal and instrumental ensembles regularly perform in St. John’s Church and Weller Auditorium. Our smaller ensembles and soloists perform in the Borland Center’s Recital Hall, a beautiful space that contains a Casavant pipe organ and a 9-ft. Steinway concert grand piano.
Steinway Initiative
Concordia has embarked on a journey to join a prestigious list of approximately 240 All-Steinway Institutions around the world—only the second in the state of Nebraska. We're committed to providing our students with excellent pianos, which will be a vital part of their education as they grow and develop as musicians.