Shanghai Concert Hall has been set up in March 26, 1930 by He Tingran, the major shareholder of Nan Yi Co., Ltd., designed by Fan Wenzhao, opened by premiering the American musical “Broadway”. It is located at prosperous Yan'an Road in Huangpu District.

At first, the hall was called Nanjing Grand Theater. Several years later, it changed its name as Beijing Cinema. In 1959, it changed its name again, called Shanghai Concert Hall, so is the present name.

Shanghai Concert Hall is the famous architectural and cultural heritage of Shanghai, so government decided to relocate the building instead of demolishing it and building a new hall while taking city's Downtown Reconstruction Project. It has taken one year to hoist the landmark building 3.38m and move it to a new location over 66.4m southeast to its previous home since September 2002.

The removal plan, priced at 18.2 million USD, was the largest and most difficult building relocation project ever attempted in the country. From now on to its reopening in the end of 2004, Shanghai Concert Hall is under renovation and expanding, which includes enlarging stage, adding rooms and facilities, rebuilding lobbies on south and west sides. By then, the hall, surrounded with trees and grassland, will be the only building inside the Music Park.

Completed its renovation, Shanghai Concert Hall holds over 1,200 seats, whose main performance area reaches 145.35 sq. m (of width 11.1m, length 13.1m) and elevated orchestra pit 29.74 sq. m.

Many great concerts and recitals have been held in the past. World renowned violinists Isaac Stern, Salvatore Accardo and Pinchas Zukerman, famous pianists Alicia de Larrocha and Fu Ts'ong, as well as Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra have performed memorable concerts in Shanghai Concert Hall.