Follow Along with the Powell Hall Expansion and Renovation
Powell Hall is one of America’s most acoustically renowned and visually stunning concert halls—and home to your St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We’re renovating and expanding the 98-year-old building to preserve and enhance our civic treasure for generations to come.
This project is inspired by you: our goal is to provide greater access to music, an even more welcoming and comfortable experience for all, and a creative hub that helps us build connections through the power of music.
The revitalized Powell Hall will open in 2025 to coincide with the building’s centennial. We look forward to celebrating with you.
October 24, 2024
As the expansion and renovation of Powell Hall continues, amenities are being added to maintain St. Louis as an international destination for musicians. This includes adding twelve practice rooms for musicians—a new amenity at the Midtown venue. Previously, musicians would utilize space where they could find it to warm up or practice, including the boiler room, stairwells, and even outside.
When the Jack C. Taylor Music Center opens in September 2025, musicians will have access to the acoustically fortified spaces to prepare for the more than 100 concerts the orchestra presents annually. The spaces will also serve as a resource for the SLSO’s education programs—most notably the Peer to Peer program, an education program that pairs young musicians with their counterparts in the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra and SLSO musicians for weekly learning and coaching sessions.
Drywall has been erected in some of the practice spaces located on the third, fourth and fifth floors of Powell Hall.
