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Manhattan School of Music is located on Claremont Avenue, just north of 122nd Street. Visit us in person! Meanwhile, here's a photo tour of our campus.

Main Building, Exterior

Located at the academic heart of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the Manhattan School of Music campus is designed to meet all the needs of young performers.

Main Entrance on Claremont Avenue, just north of 122nd St.

Exterior View from 122nd St. & Claremont Ave.

Exterior View from 122nd St. & Broadway

Sakura Park, across the street from MSM's Campus

Main Building, Interior

The main building — located at 130 Claremont Avenue — houses spaces for instruction, performance, dining, research, and study.

Neidorff-Karpati Hall Lobby

Neidorff-Karpati Hall Interior

Neidorff-Karpati Hall Interior

Student Lounge

Grand Staircase

Cafeteria

The Mitzi Newhouse Pavilion is the Manhattan School of Music’s dining hall that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner Monday through Saturday, and Sunday brunch, when school is in session. Centrally located and spacious, it is often used for School receptions and social activities. Chartwells Division of the Compass Group is the contract food service provider for Manhattan School of Music.

Visit the Chartwells website here for information regarding menus, nutrition, and much more.

Staircase from the Main Lobby to the Cafeteria

Dining Area

Mitzi Newhouse Pavilion Cafeteria Entrance

Andersen Residence Hall

Adjacent to the main building is the residence hall, which, since its inauguration in 2001, has created a dynamic vertical campus for Manhattan School of Music. A nineteen-story building of performance, academic, administrative offices, and residential spaces, the G. Chris and SungEun Andersen Hall includes space for 550 students, and a floor of 24-hour practice rooms.

Learn more about living on campus here.

Main entrance on Claremont Ave.

Residence Lobby and Security Desk

Residence Hallway

Dorm Room

Practice Room

Practice Room

Dorm Room window view facing northwest. Pictured: Hudson River, George Washington Bridge in the distance.

Dorm Room window view facing west. Pictured: Sakura Park, Grant's Tomb, Hudson River

Dorm Room window facing south.

Wenger Practice Rooms and Student Study Area

Dance Studio

Libraries

The Peter Jay Sharp Library contains printed music, books, sound recordings, DVDs, periodicals, MSM Archives, and much more.

The Evelyn Sharp Performance Library contains performing materials for orchestra, wind ensemble, and brass ensemble, contemporary ensemble and chorus.

Visit the Library webpage here.

Peter Jay Sharp Library and Evelyn Sharp Performance Library Entrances

Evelyn Sharp Performance Library

Reference Desk

Study Space

Peter Jay Sharp Library

Recording & Distance Learning

Manhattan School of Music launched its groundbreaking Distance Learning program in 1996, the first of its kind at a major conservatory. Since then, using state-of-the-art interactive videoconference technology to enhance MSM students’ curriculum, we have also developed programs to connect students, educators and distinguished artists around the globe. Additionally, our live webstreamed concerts and master classes, featuring MSM student ensembles and acclaimed faculty, now attract a worldwide audience.

Learn more about Recording Arts here.
Learn more about Distance Learning here.

Charles Myers Recording Studio

Mischa Elman Distance Learning Center

Performance Spaces

The school has nine main performance spaces which host a variety of performances throughout the year. Learn more about MSM’s performance spaces here.

Performance Center entrance on Claremont Ave.

The Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Performance Space

Greenfield Hall Lobby

The Gordon K. and Harriet Greenfield Hall

The William R. and Irene D. Miller Recital Hall

Neidorff-Karpati Hall

Neidorff-Karpati Lounge

Charles Myers Recital Hall

The Solomon Gadles Mikowsky Recital Hall

Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Hall

Carla Bossi-Comelli Studio

David Rahm Recital Hall

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