"In short, I could not give a higher recommendation for a team of engineering artists! You are welcome to come out and experience our hall to understand JaffeHolden's contribution for yourselves."

Garyth Nair
Professor of Music
Conductor of the Drew Chorale and Orchestra

"I want you to know how pleased the musicians of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra are. We are very happy to see our suggestions realized in the final product."

Gregory A. Drone, Chairman,
Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

"The Ahn Trio's talent exceeded my expectations. Their song selections and arrangements were outstanding. As usual, the acoustics are amazing; every note can be heard. ECA [Edmonds Center for the Arts] is an excellent venue and showcased their unique style of chamber music quite well. Well done!!!!"
Stephen Clifton,
Project Manager
Public Facilities District, Seattle

"The new Marion McCaw Hall is acoustically excellent."
Anthony Tommasini,
Music Critic
The New York Times

"Best of all, are the acoustics [in McCaw Hall], which on the evidence of Saturday's opening performance are little short of magnificent."
Joshua Kosman,
Music Critic
San Francisco Chronicle

"Vinson Cole, with his lighter-than-air lyric tenor, provided a different kind of test, singing Gluck's "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice." Every syllable, every detail, emerged with gratifying clarity. This [McCaw Hall] is a hall that can stand with the great American opera houses-and it is a great dance venue as well."
Melinda Bargreen,
Music Critic
Seattle Times

"I loved being on the stage. The sound is really excellent; I could hear the orchestra and I could feel the vibrations going out. It's a thrill to sing for the first time on this stage."
Jane Eaglen,
Soprano
Performing in the Marian O. McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington

"The sound is rich and buoyant, yet clear. The orchestra in the pit has genuine presence, and the sound of singers from the stage flowed effortlessly across the footlights into every corner of the auditorium."
R.M. Campbell,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Music/Dance Critic

"By the conclusion of Thursday's concert of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and Stravinsky led by music director Neal Gittleman, it was clear; this [the new Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center] is one of the most stunning acoustical spaces in Ohio-perhaps in the nation."
Janelle Gelfand,
The Cincinnati Enquirer

"More that 1,000 behold Cannon Hall, the ‘Carnegie Hall' of Memphis"
Memphis Commercial Appeal

"I truly think that you have surpassed our fondest dreams. This hall has acoustics that are among the best, if not the best, of any concert hall I have had the privilege of experiencing. I can only tell you that the City of Memphis, the Memphis Symphony and I, personally, are all indebted to you for a superb achievement."
Martha Ellen Maxwell,
Executive Director

"The new RiverCenter for the Performing Arts is quite a place. The acoustics are incredible."
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

"The acoustics are wonderful; it's so nice to play in a hall where we can hear each other."
Robert Spano,
Music Director
Conducting the Atlanta Symphony in the Bill Heard Theater at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts

"Legacy Hall [at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts] is the most beautiful and perfect room in which we've ever installed an organ."
Fernand LeTourneau,
Organ Builder

"Zilkha Hall's [at the new Hobby Center for the Performing Arts] acoustics are incredible and fantastic."
Andrew Manze,
Director
Violin Soloist
Academy of Ancient Music

"As Orchestra X's first concert in the newly opened Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, the effect was all the more spellbinding. The hall is visually beautiful, with the wood tone and maroon walls creating an intimate yet modern setting. Sight-lines are good, and acoustically, it's everything that was promised: pianissimo violin passages are clear and subtle in the back row, and the clarity of chamber music such as this is made resonant and warm."
David Ragsdale
ArtsHouston

"Holden's firm has added another success in Houston [Hobby Center] to its work for the University of Houston and the Wortham Theater Center."
Charles Ward,
Music Critic
Houston Chronicle

"The new reverberation time matches that of Carnegie Hall and of Symphony Hall in Boston. . .Severance Hall's sound is as seductive as it looks."
The New York Times

"Although Hall A [in the Tokyo Forum] is large because it was designed as a classical music concert venue, when I considered that it is a 5000-seat concert hall I felt that the sound quality of the hall is quite excellent."
Seiji Ozawa,
Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Music Director

"Van Cliburn Recital Hall, designed by JaffeHolden, has become a favorite recital space because it is acoustically adjustable."
Olin Chism,
Music Critic
The Dallas Morning News

"Bass Performance Hall is among the top halls in the world!"
Kurt Masur, Music Director
New York Philharmonic

"I have just finished the final round of tonal finishing work on our organ at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City. I can now report with the authority born of months and months of intensive tonal testing that the room is a true acoustical miracle. Despite its immense size (8,000,000 cubic feet and seating nearly 22,000 people) the sound is equivalent to that of a modern symphony hall."
Jack Bethards,
President and Tonal Director
Schoenstein & Co., Organ Builders

"It's absolutely stunning [Weber Hall]. To suddenly hear our music the way it was meant to be heard."
Judith Kritzmire,
Head of Music Department
University of Minnesota

"I have performed in quite a few concert halls and theaters in the Mid-South region, and attended concerts all over the world. This hall [Ford Performing Arts Center] compares favorably with the best venues anywhere".
Ronald Vernon,
Professor,
Department of Music, University of Mississippi

"We are so pleased with jaffeHolden's Electronic Architecture System design for the Midland center for the Arts. Now the Midland Symphony Orchestra and distinguished visiting orchestras have a venue that supports the orchestral repertoire and enhances the listening experience for our audiences; bravo"!
Michael Tiknis,
CEO
Midland Center for the Arts

"I am heartened in knowing that there are few...a very few... who know enough about acoustics to care about the sound from a musician's point of view, and to look for that intangible magic and warmth that really makes for a great hall and an additional instrument for us to work with in performance."
Isaac Stern,
violinist
and Past President
Board of Directors,
Carnegie Hall Corp.

"Thank you for the extraordinary work you did on transforming the sound of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. It is truly a room in which all Americans can enjoy music under ideal conditions. Your professionalism, hard work, and good sense have blessed us with one of the finest halls in America."
Lawrence J. Wilker,
Former President
John F. Kennedy Center

"Plano's Courtyard Theater is an excellent venue for chamber music. Seating fewer than 400, it has acoustics that let each instrument of a chamber group be heard clearly but without a dry sound."
Olin Chism, Music Critic
The Dallas Morning News

"Russ Cooper thoroughly and effectively communicated to me all aspects of the bidding, award and work processes for the orchestra shell and forestage reflector. Phone calls were answered promptly, information was given accurately, and Russ's easy going personality was always appreciated."
David Kraus,
State University of New York-Buffalo

"The quality of sound, or its absence, is a feature that strongly influenced the acoustical design from the start, overseen by Chris Jaffe and project director Russ Cooper "The objective was to build an acoustical environment in which you could have the band, orchestra, chorus, and opera rehearsing at the same time, and be able to walk out on stage and not hear a sound...and it works!"
Dr. David Tomatz,
Former Director
Moores Opera House, Moores School of Music
University of Houston

"JaffeHolden is not only focused on the arts and engineering of acoustics, but also on the client. They are extremely attentive and sensitive as a firm all throughout the process."
Kathy Panoff,
Executive Director
Modlin Center for the Arts
University of Richmond

"The building far exceeded our expectations. It is just fabulous. It's the best hall I've ever heard. The acoustics are stunning!"
David Schrader,
Director, College of Music
University of North Texas

"I have never heard an outdoor concert so successfully amplified as the one the Philharmonic played Sunday night on the Great Lawn. The combination of the Carlos Moseley Pavilion, the efforts of JaffeHolden (the Philharmonic's sound consultants), and the 24 mounted loudspeakers, staggered throughout the area, made for a sonic clarity unmatched in my 17-odd years of experience of park concerts. We heard not merely a tiny representation of the New York Philharmonic; we heard the Philharmonic."
Tim Page,
Music Critic The New York Times

"Though Experience Music Project is a museum, its primary content is music, not objects. That presented designers with a unique challenge-one that the Jaffe Holden team rose to. Their innovative, creative solutions give EMP a rich, varied, high fidelity soundscape. One of our best decisions was to bring them on early in our project."
Ann Farrington
Project Manager Experience Music Project

"Sound plays a big role in our exhibitions. With JaffeHolden's help, we doubled the amount of sound in our new facility with no bleeding except to entice visitors to the next section. JaffeHolden accomplished everything the Country Music Hall of Fame had hoped for with sound."
Diana Johnson,
V.P.-Museum Services
Country Music Hall of Fame

"We wanted to integrate an interactive experience with artifacts and audio-visual presentations. I chose to work with the consultants I thought were best. The installation is very complex and very much the product of a team effort. This was really an astonishingly successful collaboration."
Rochelle Slovin
Executive Director of the American Museum of the Moving Image

"The audio systems accommodate every musical genre - from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Saratoga/Newport Jazz Festival - with equally distinctive sound. It's a great investment for SPAC officials, artists and concert-goers alike."
Herb Chesbrough,
President
Saratoga Performing Arts Center

"The acoustics here [Christ Church] are simply wonderful-the best of any church we have performed in. The wood. . . it's all in the wonderful wood you have here-it produces such a warm and wonderful sound".
Jeaneoque Orchestratte Sorrell,
Concertmaster,
Apollo Baroque

"The Christman Company would like to personally thank you for your exceptional involvement and contribution to the success of this most important, historical restoration of our Michigan State Capitol. Your outstanding work and continued cooperation throughout the phases of this project have certainly made a difference in the overall beauty of this restoration masterpiece".
Christman Construction Services