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October 2, 2006
Pennsylvania Academy of Music Hosts Open House
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music will hold an Open House for prospective and current students and their families on Tuesday, October 24 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at 42 North Prince Street in Lancaster. Visitors will have an opportunity to observe lessons, listen to very brief performances, talk with teachers and staff, receive information about scholarship auditions in November and win free tickets to the Academy's Twilight Concert Series. Light refreshments will be available. For more information, call the Academy at 717.399.9733.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying, and recording. The Academy has added an expanded jazz program, a brass program and a beginner winds program to its curriculum this year.
The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty of 33 instructors and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
The Academy offers numerous concerts throughout the year, most notably its Twilight Concert Series which features both aspiring and established artists. A summer festival, Music Naturally, provides young artists with the opportunity to spend two weeks focusing on chamber music repertoire with top professional artists through a program of intensive coaching, master classes and performances. Other summer programs include choir and composition workshops.
The Academy's ensemble-in-residence, The Newstead Trio, is one of the most distinguished piano trios in North America. The Trio has performed throughout the U. S., Canada, Italy, Hungary, Singapore and China.
In May 2006, the Pennsylvania Academy of Music broke ground on a new $21 million facility on Prince Street. When completed in spring 2008, the building will be the last performing arts venue designed by the renowned architect Philip Johnson, in collaboration with his partner Alan Ritchie. Johnson died in 2005. Acoustics have been designed by Dr. Cyril M. Harris, one of America's leading acousticians.
The new facility will be three stories, encompass 63,000 square feet, contain a 367-seat recital hall, Grand Foyer, more than a dozen teaching students, a chamber music suite, choral and instrumental rehearsal rooms, a eurhythmics studio, an Atrium suitable for casual concerts, meetings, conferences, and lectures, state-of-the-art recording facilities with broadcasting capabilities, a new computer lab, a modern and expanded library, featuring a reading room and a listening room, classrooms for music theory and composition and public rooms to accommodate music conferences, conventions and community functions.
Libby Sternberg
Director of Marketing
717.399.2292
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
