USI celebrates All Steinway designation with CEO of Steinway

After a long journey tracing back to 2015, the University of Southern Indiana earned an All-Steinway School distinction in Fall 2023. To celebrate this achievement, the Steinway CEO will join the USI College of Liberal Arts for a reception and a concert by USI choir, accompanied by Tom Drury, Instructor in Music, on a Steinway piano at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 29 in the Rice Library second floor Reading Room.

With the opening of the USI Performance Center in 2015, which included a Steinway grand piano, the USI Foundation petitioned Dr. Linda L. M. Bennett, USI's third President, to approve the initiative of becoming an All-Steinway School, "a school that demonstrates a full commitment to excellence by providing its students and faculties with the best instruments possible for the study of music."

By summer 2023, USI and the Dr. Philip H. Hagemann Department of Performing Arts, Music and Theater were in a position for the USI Foundation to formally seek the All-Steinway School Distinction. "USI has a long tradition of musical excellence, and this designation is a good step forward as we look to the future of our programming," said Dr. Del Doughty, Dean of USI's College of Liberal Arts.

For more information about the All-Steinway School Distinction, visit the Steinway Pianos for Higher Education webpage.