The New Pennsylvania Academy of Music

The new home of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music opened on June 11, 2008. The state-of-the-art building is five times larger than our previous home, expanding the space for music education and performance to 63,000 square feet. The Academy is equipped to accommodate a student body of up to six hundred musicians.

The exterior of the Academy's new building features a glass facade framed with stone colonnades. Its interior provides spacious and highly functional teaching studios, rehearsal spaces, a reading/listening library, and office suites. The new building houses the 367-seat Steinman Concert Hall with superb acoustics for concert, recitals and recording.

Designers of the new building are noted architects Philip Johnson and Alan Ritchie, whose credits include the AT&T Headquarters in New York City, among other significant structures. Acoustical designer Cyril Harris, whose work includes the Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Opera House of New York, collaborated on a design for this world-class concert venue available to Academy students and the community.

The Construction is Complete!

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Tour the Architect's Model

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