Phillips Academy Andover's New Music Building To Be Named Falls Hall

ANDOVER, MA — Phillips Academy has announced that its under-construction music education and performance building will be named Falls Hall.

The 30,000-square-foot center, expected to open in the fall of 2024 adjacent to the Peabody Institute of Archaeology, will be named for Amy Falls, president of the Board of Trustees.

Falls, an 1982 Phillips Academy graduate and the current chief investment officer at Northwestern University, and her husband Hartley Rogers have made a leadership gift to the Phillips Academy Knowledge & Goodness giving campaign. The details of their gift were not disclosed.

According to Phillips Academy, the new music building is made possible thanks to $24 million in Knowledge & Goodness campaign investments, with additional funding contributed by the Academy.

"Our future music center symbolizes a fundamental commitment to the liberal arts and will further define our pursuit of intellectual and artistic creativity in its many forms," said Raynard Kington, Phillips Academy's head of school. "

Kington added: "I am especially mindful of (Falls') pathbreaking leadership. As Andover's first chief investment officer, the first female treasurer of the board, and the first woman to serve as board president, she has exemplified and championed diversity and non sibi (Latin for not for self)."

The new music building is expected to feature a 250-seat performance hall, flexible ensemble spaces and classrooms. The facility also will have 19 practice rooms, a music library, electronic music studio, technology labs and a "rock room" with recording and broadcast capabilities.

"We are certainly not alone in our belief that Andover deserves a facility that reflects the world-class caliber of its (music) program," Falls said. "Hundreds of alumni, parents and friends have made this possible, and we are incredibly grateful for their support."

Falls Hall is one of several projects supported by the Knowledge & Goodness campaign, which recently finished at $408.9 million in donations.