MSU Department of Music - All-Steinway School Celebration
Mississippi State has joined the elite ranks of institutions with the prestigious All-Steinway School status and will hold a ceremony August 30 celebrating this milestone.
The designation is granted to conservatories, colleges, universities and schools that solely use pianos designed by Steinway & Sons for practice, instruction and performance. Less than 250 institutions globally hold the acclaimed distinction.
Open to the public, the celebration takes place at 10 a.m. in the Music Building located at 124 Hardy Road. Speakers include MSU President Mark E. Keenum and Chris Gilbert, Steinway & Sons representative. The ceremony will include a concert featuring three pianos and an unveiling of the Steinway plaque, followed by a reception.
The university’s All-Steinway Initiative began in 2012 and formally launched in 2014 with an estate gift from the late Scarvia Bateman Anderson, a 1945 MSU education alumna. Since then, MSU has acquired 50 Steinway pianos with private gifts. In fall 2022, the Department of Music opened its 37,000-square-foot Music Building, which includes classrooms, a choral rehearsal hall, sound-proof practice rooms, a high-tech recording studio and an acoustically advanced lecture recital hall. Each room now holds a Steinway piano for teaching and practice.
Learn more about its Department of Music at www.educ.msstate.edu.
