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 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 projects

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
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
Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, USA
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA USA
Pressure Point Recording Studios, Chicago, IL, USA
Royal Festival Hall at South Bank Centre, London, UK
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia
Shalin Liu Performance Center

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". Describing the Overture Center in Madison, Wisconsin, Oestreich wrote that "the acoustics, designed by Kirkegaard Associates, sounded notably bright yet mellow, clean yet reverberant".