Primary Education School Pianos
The world’s finest primary and secondary schools insist on providing their students, faculty, and community with the best school pianos possible. As such, they choose Steinway & Sons–designed instruments to enable their students to realize their artistic talents.
Steinway Educational Services
Whether your school is a private day or boarding institution or part of a public school district, we have a program to assist you. Steinway & Sons is devoted to partnering with you and your school to help you acquire, manage, and maintain the best school pianos the world has to offer. Our Educational Services department has developed unique and customized resources for managing your piano inventory:
Inventory Analysis
Fundraising Programs
Lease-To-Own Program
Technical Service Guidelines
Technician Seminars
Steinway Scholarship Program
Selection Room Access
Steinway Factory Tours
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Steinway & Sons Educational Buying Programs
Through partnerships with innovative group buying programs, Steinway & Sons is here to help schools and institutions simplify their procurement processes and potentially save resources by utilizing the agreements established by other public entities, instead of going through their own bidding procedures. These programs are specifically designed for the needs of educational institutions, including K-12 schools and private and public colleges.
Cost savings • Resource conservation • Compliant contracting processes
Educational institutions can often forgo a formal bidding process when utilizing master contracts like CollegeBuys or SchoolBuys, as these agreements often provide a streamlined procurement pathway. This is typically allowed through “piggybacking” provisions in state laws, allowing institutions to leverage existing contracts instead of conducting their own bidding.
- SchoolBuys: As part of the Enterprise and Procurement Services department at the Foundation for California Community Colleges, SchoolBuys provides strategic sourcing focused exclusively on the needs of K-12 schools. SchoolBuys maximizes investments for districts by offering substantial discounts. Learn more at www.schoolbuys.org.
- CollegeBuys: The CollegeBuys program is an example of a cooperative purchasing arrangement that allows community colleges and other public entities to piggyback on contracts negotiated by the California Community College system. Learn more at www.collegebuys.org.
Atlanta Music Project – Atlanta, GA
Burr & Burton Academy – Manchester, VT
Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing & Fine Arts – East Orange, NJ
Classen School of Advanced Studies – Oklahoma City, OK
Cushing Academy – Ashburnham, MA
Episcopal High School – Alexandria, VA
Collierville High School – Collierville, TN
Gilmour Academy – Gates Mills, OH
Gould Academy, Bethel – ME
Harlem School of the Arts – New York, NY
Murphy High School – Mobile, AL
Orange County Music and Dance – Irvine, CA
Pacific Northwest Ballet and School – Seattle, WA
Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh’s Creative & Performing Arts Magnet School – Pittsburgh, PA
Rainey McCullers School of the Arts - Columbus, GA
St. Margaret’s Episcopal School – San Juan Capistrano, CA
St. Nicholas School – Chattanooga, TN
Valley Christian Schools – San Jose, CA
Council Rock School District – Newtown, PA
Ector County Independent School District – Odessa, TX
Fort Worth Independent School District – Fort Worth, TX
Fort Bend Independent School District – Fort Bend, TX
Oxford School District – Oxford, MS
St. Joseph Public Schools – St. Joseph, MI
K-12 News & Features
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Oxford School District is the First Steinway Select District in Mississippi
OXFORD, MS – With the purchase of seven new Steinway and Steinway-Designed pianos—including the remarkable Steinway Spirio | r high resolution player piano—Oxford School District has become the first district in Mississippi to achieve Steinway Select status.
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Matthew Figgie’s dream fulfilled with nothing but Steinway pianos for Gilmour
GATES MILLS – Once-heavy hearts were filled with joy at The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts in December 2019, when movers wheeled a nine-foot Model D concert grand into a specially designed enclave near the main stage. It marked the last delivery of 10 new Steinways and capped Matthew Figgie’s fait accompli – one final mission of many for his beloved Gilmour Academy.
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A patron of public education makes Collierville a Steinway Select School
COLLIERVILLE, TENN – David Pickler’s love of music began early in life. Growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, his living room was anchored by a beautiful baby grand piano. His mother, Marilynn Robinson Pickler, a highly accomplished vocalist and theatrical performer, reached the pinnacle of her career by landing the leading role in a local production of Mame. They sang together in their church choir and he pursued his own aspirations by performing in local shows.
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Christmas Miracle Fulfilled in Fort Worth with 12 new pianos by Steinway & Sons
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – About a year ago, Maite Hererra stepped inside a hulking mass of steel beams and scaffolds to find a dusty old upright piano in the heart of what would become the I.M. Terrell Academy
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Social media helps Macomb schools secure a new Boston Grand
Choral Director Melanie Butcher of the Macomb School District resides in a rural town of about 20,000 residents who proudly show some serious love for their award-winning choir...
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Orange County Music & Dance finds a perfect partner in Steinway & Sons
IRVINE, CA. – An innovative nonprofit performing arts school experiencing phenomenal growth is partnering with Steinway & Sons to create world-class opportunities for piano students from China.
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Seguin’s Big Steinway (D)ream Fulfilled
SEGUIN, TEXAS – About a half hour’s drive from San Antonio, Seguin could be considered a blip on the GPS by Texas standards, measuring a little more than 37 square miles with some 30,000 residents. So when voters approved funding for a multi-million dollar high school and performing arts center, most of the 1,900 student Matadors were bowled over.
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Council Rock gets new pianos by Steinway & Sons, Plans for Model D concert grands at high schools
NEWTOWN, PA – The Council Rock School District has infused its world-class music program with 10 new Boston pianos designed by Steinway & Sons.
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Scituate Steps Up to a New Steinway D
SCITUATE, MA – The finale was a Gershwin tune, but for Jim Thomas, true delight was just beginning. In the excited aftermath of Scituate High School’s Spring Concert, students of all ages lined up for a chance to play its brand new Steinway Model D concert grand piano...
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A new Steinway D energizes historic Steam plant at the Middlesex School
CONCORD, MA – A 19th century steam plant fueled by coal and oil to heat the Middlesex School is now supplying a much sweeter source of musical energy, as the sounds of a nine-foot Steinway concert grand piano pulse through the Rachel Carson Music and Campus Center.
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Pennsylvania Ballet Studios Filled with New Boston Grands
Pennsylvania Ballet has chosen to equip its accompanists with Boston Performance Edition II grand pianos that provide the musical impetus for myriad hours of demanding studio rehearsals...
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Ann Arbor harbors a love of Steinways
ANN ARBOR, MI – Once voters in the Ann Arbor Public Schools approved a multi-million dollar bond issue in 2015, decision-makers at Pioneer High School had a few options regarding new pianos. But there really was only one choice – a Steinway Model D Concert Grand handcrafted in New York. It was among 28 new Steinway and Steinway-designed pianos the district acquired from Steinway Piano Gallery of Detroit for all of its high schools and middle schools.
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88 Keys Transcend 98 Languages at the United Nations International School
NEW YORK, NY - It all may have seemed a bit surreal for student musicians from the United Nations International School, whose countless hours of rehearsals boiled down to precious few minutes sharing the same stage where Steinway Artists Sergei Rachmaninoff and Vladimir Horowitz made their American debuts.
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Livonia Showing Lots of Love for 30 Steinway-Designed Boston Pianos
LIVONIA, MA - Shaping a long-term vision for the future, Livonia Public Schools has chosen to upgrade its musical instrument inventory with 33 new pianos by Steinway & Sons.
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Gilmour Academy to Become Steinway Select K-12 School Thanks to Matthew P. Figgie ‘84
With the addition of three new Steinway & Sons grand pianos in December 2016, Gilmour Academy has begun the process of becoming a Steinway Select K-12 School, which means that every piano on Gilmour’s campus will soon be replaced with a new Steinway & Sons grand piano.
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Chopin reveals a distinguished Steinway designation for St. Nicholas School
CHATTANOOGA, TN – Energizing the new Chapel and Fine Arts Center at St. Nicholas School, Steinway Artists Gloria Chien and Ning An etched indelible impressions on curious young minds through the highly emotive music of Chopin.
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Rich Boston sound makes dance a joy At Alabama School of the Fine Arts
Marrying music with dance takes a certain kind of patience. Accompanists must strike a delicate balance between the musical score and the requirements of a dance technique class. To provide that special bridge, the Alabama School of the Fine Arts recently selected a Boston GP-178 from the Alabama Piano Gallery in Birmingham...
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Setting a lifelong standard with Steinways is the goal at Suitland
FORESTVILLE, MD. — Suitland High School’s Center for Visual and Performing Arts has set sights on a highly ambitious goal: become the first public All-Steinway high school in the United States. To Ken Boucher, it is a universal standard of excellence he reinforces with his students on trips to All-Steinway colleges and universities. And in many ways, he values the concept as much as the world-class pianos.
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For Walnut Hill students, Steinways are making practice a joy
NATICK, MASS. – A decision three years ago to fill the practice rooms with 10 Steinway grand pianos is paying dividends as the highly acclaimed Walnut Hill School for the Arts continues its quest to become an All-Steinway institution.
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New Steinway enables “Artistry of the Highest Caliber” at Marple Newtown
NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. – A shining Steinway Model B grand piano that once seemed like a dream for Marple Newtown High now proudly stands in the school’s new performing arts center – historic testament to the extraordinary life of a local physician and Holocaust survivor.
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Edgewood Making A Statement With Steinway
SAN ANTONIO — Edgewood Independent School District, one of the city's poorest, made a statement Tuesday night about its commitment to music education.Its board approved building a new band hall...
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New Steinway B Inspires Musical Excellence in America’s Heartland
Choral Director Shawna Dumbaugh had just started freshman choir rehearsal at Nevada High School when everything came to a screeching halt. Startled singers gasped, as all eyes turned to Kirsten Weber. “They looked in my direction because of how much richer and more beautiful the piano sounded as opposed to what their ears were accustomed to,” the accompanist fondly remembers after playing the first few notes on the school’s new Steinway Model B
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Living the STEINWAY Dream in Austin
Music – described by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as “liquid architecture” – takes some imaginative turns through the new performing arts center in the Austin Independent School District
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Steinway Model D Concert Grand Arrives in Algona, minus 76 trombones
As a classically-trained pianist, Barbara Haggard dreamed of enhancing the quality of musical performances in her beloved hometown of Algona. Now, one could only imagine what she might say as the tight-knit northern Iowa community embraces the instrument of the immortals.
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NOCCA students rise to the challenge
A rich cultural mosaic runs through the iconic New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, where gifted students explore high levels of artistic craftsmanship. With a lengthy list of world class jazz luminaries crediting NOCCA for inspiring discipline, dedication, and desire, it proved to be the perfect environment for a certain Steinway that caught the ear of Michael Pellera
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Heavens open for All-Steinway Gould Academy’s global piano festival
As Gould Academy became an All-Steinway School in 2007, one of the glistening celestial bodies apparently reached out to Tamara Poddubnaya. A powerhouse of a teacher and artist, Tamara heard about “those pianos” and following a tour of the private boarding school found a nurturing home for the Music without Borders International Piano Festival at Gould Academy.
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Fine Arts Flourish in Fort Worth With Record Purchase of Boston Pianos
The Fort Worth Independent School District is reaffirming a powerful long-term commitment to the Fine Arts expected to result in a near $2.5 million acquisition of almost 250 new Steinway-designed Boston pianos.
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A Star Quality Steinway Storms the Stage at Cab Calloway School
WILMINGTON, DE — When he arrived at the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, Shane van Neerden had a dilemma. As an honors student building a career in
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Steinway Meets Science at Berkeley
With an indoor playground for robots, a fossilized stegosaurus egg, a NASA space shuttle remnant, a couple of German incubators and seven pianos by Steinway & Sons, one could easily imagine the new Gries Center for the Arts and Sciences on a sprawling college campus.
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New Steinway Model B 'Changes Everything' at Penncrest High School
MEDIA, PA — Murmurs of a new piano echoed through the hallways of Penncrest High School. Some students heard whispers; a few of them caught glimpses. Anticipation filled the air.
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