Green Music Center :: News Clip

firm to build music center

December 29, 2006
Rudolph and Sletten Inc. has been chosen as construction manager for the Donald and Maureen Green Music Center at Sonoma State University.

Redwood City-based Rudolph and Sletten said the 101,250-square-foot center is a $59 million public/private partnership and is slated to be completed in September 2008.

The Green Music Center will be the new home of the Santa Rosa Symphony and the summertime Green Music Festival, as well as of guest artists.

The center's concert hall seats 1,400. Accompanying the hall is a 250-seat recital hall, two rehearsal halls, practice rooms and ensemble rooms, a restaurant, hospitality center, three departmental suites, faculty offices and two instructional classrooms.

Rudolph and Sletten is charged with self-performing the structural concrete on the project. The firm said one of the biggest challenges is the construction of the concert hall's cast-in-place concrete shell, more than 70 feet high.

Rudolph and Sletten said it was chosen for the project because of its expertise in building state-of-the-art and technologically complex facilities within the arts, including the Community School of Music and the Arts in Mountain View, the Fox Theatre in San Jose, which is home to Opera San Jose, the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, and the Center for Food, Wine and the Arts in Napa.