Acentech’s Studio A is proud to announce its sponsorship of the Conservatory Lab Charter School’s inaugural concert series featuring Castle of Our Skins. These concerts realize Conservatory Lab’s ambition to be a community resource to its Dorchester neighborhoods. The first concert will take place at the new Upper School on Sunday, October 27 at 3:00 PM, with doors open at 2:15 PM for community activities. Registration information is here. The second concert will be in April 2025, with information to follow in early spring.

These concerts will take place in the performance hall at the Upper School, acoustically designed by Acentech with Arrowstreet architects. The Upper School opened in Fall 2020, and the COVID pandemic limited its use for public events. This new concert series marks the first public performance in the new Upper School building. The building is expressly designed to support the Conservatory Lab’s music-based curriculum, with a range of music and academic classrooms and learning labs, a large orchestra rehearsal hall, and a gracious performance hall that doubles as a dining commons. 

Acentech is currently working with CBT Architects on the design of a renovated and expanded Lower School building. The project re-envisions the school’s use of its site and provides new indoor and outdoor space and a thorough renovation, including a generous new music and dining space.

“We are proud to support the Conservatory Lab’s artistic and community vision through these collaborations,” said Jonah Sacks, Acentech’s Director of Architectural Acoustics.

"The serenity that one discovers inside the Upper School is directly attributable to the thoughtful work that Acentech’s engineers invested into the design of the school. Partnering with an organization that is a part of the connective tissue of our signature building is extraordinarily meaningful for Conservatory Lab. Conservatory Lab’s flagship building was always conceived as a community asset and we are grateful that Acentech is partnering with us on this inaugural Opening Our Doors event to fulfill that promise,” said Matt Chapuran, Executive Director of the Conservatory Lab Foundation.

About Studio A Acentech

Studio A at Acentech specializes in acoustics and audiovisual systems design for the arts. Exceptional sound is a determinant of success in performing arts spaces. Careful planning among artists, acousticians, designers, and institutions is necessary to promote an arts-centered design that leads to new, extended, or renewed facilities for tomorrow’s performances. Studio A’s acoustics and audiovisual consultants bring their own performing arts experience and draw on their personal backgrounds as successful musicians and sound engineers to ensure a common vocabulary with artist groups, and a profound understanding of their needs and aspirations at the outset of any building project. In this way, we help institutions to understand their current and future facilities in the context of their programs’ needs.

About Conservatory Lab Charter School

At Conservatory Lab Charter School, every single student plays music every single day. Founded in 1998, through the joy and discipline of daily musical engagement, experiential learning, and service to the community, Conservatory Lab students learn to effect changes as creative and active citizens. 

Celebrated in 2023 as a School of Recognition by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Conservatory Lab employs a curriculum that encourages students to become leaders of their own learning through hands-on lessons with real-world applications, ensemble-based collaboration, and interdisciplinary instruction.

A tuition-free public school, Conservatory Lab draws heavily from some of Boston's most economically marginalized neighborhoods including Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, and Roxbury