The Building
During the first few years, the Academy conducted its activities provisionally in George Town and later moved to Mylapore. In 1955, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone for the music academy building that exists today on TTK Road in Mylapore. On December 20, 1962, Maharaja Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, the then Governor of Madras.
There are two buildings for the Music Academy:
- The T.T. Krishnamachari Hall
- The Kasturi Srinivasan Hall
The T.T. Krishnamachari Hall is the first building that was built in 1955. It is after this building that the road on which it lies was named the TTK Road. It has a seating capacity of 1600.
The Kasturi Srinivasan Hall was built in 1982. It houses a small auditorium for conferences and concerts, a library, a committee room and a recording and demonstration room. It was here that Tiruvavaduthurai Rajaratnam Pillai's tapes and audio CDs were produced. It also has a photo gallery named the Vinyasa Art Gallery which is used during the season to exhibit photos. Kasturi Srinivasan's nephew's son, N. Murali, the Joint Managing Director of The Hindu, is the present President of the Academy.
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