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Concert Hall
A concert hall is a cultural building which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music. Many concert halls exist within a larger performing arts centre.
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Royal Albert Hall, London
The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941.
The Royal Albert Hall is one of the UK's most treasured and...
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" literally translates into English as "concert building". Because of its highly regarded acoustics, the Concertgebouw is considered one of the finest...
Symphony Hall
Symphony Hall is a concert hall located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by McKim, Mead and White, it was built in 1900 for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which continues to make the hall its home. Admired for its...
Wiener Musikverein
Wiener Musikverein, English: "Viennese Music Association"), commonly just quoted The Musikverein, has a twofold meaning: it is the name of its famous Vienna concert hall, as well as the short name for the music society, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde...
Lingotto
Lingotto is a district of Turin, Italy, that named the Lingotto building in Via Nizza, which once was a huge automobile factory, constructed by Fiat. Built from 1916 and opened in 1923, the design (by young architect Mattè Trucco) was unusual in...
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International Convention Centre, Birmingham
The International Convention Centre (abbreviated to ICC) is a major conference venue in central Birmingham, England. The centre includes Symphony Hall and it faces Centenary Square. The building has another entrance leading to the canals of...
Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves (among other...
Chicago Symphony Center
Symphony Center is a music complex in Chicago, Illinois and is home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Symphony Center includes Orchestra Hall, which dates from 1904; Buntrock Hall, a rehearsal and performance space; a...
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (on the building itself called the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River,...
Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900 seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war...
National Arts Centre, Ottawa
The National Arts Centre (NAC) (in French: Le Centre national des arts (CNA)) is a centre for the performing arts located in Ottawa, Ontario, between Elgin Street and the Rideau Canal. The NAC is also home to the Le Café restaurant and a large...
The Arts Centre, Melbourne
The Arts Centre in Melbourne is a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the inner-suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia.
It was designed by architect Sir Roy Grounds, the masterplan for the complex ...
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
The Bridgewater Hall is an international concert venue in Manchester, England. It cost around £42 million to build and currently hosts over 250 performances a year. It is located in Lower Mosley Street in the city centre.
Since its opening on 11...
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is an arts venue in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The concert hall is operated by Glasgow’s Concert Halls, which also runs Glasgow’s City Halls and Old Fruitmarket.
Planned as the Glasgow International Concert Hall...
Stockholm Concert Hall
The Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset) is the main hall for orchestral music in Stockholm, Sweden. Designed by Ivar Tengbom and inaugurated in 1926, it is the home to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. It is also where the awarding...
Neal S. Blaisdell Center, Honolulu
The Neal S. Blaisdell Center in downtown Honolulu, Honolulu CDP is a community center for the City & County of Honolulu. Constructed in 1964 on the historic Ward Estate and originally called the Hawaiʻi International Center, the center was renamed...
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is a concert hall located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Ranked one of the world's greatest orchestra halls, it was designed by architect I.M. Pei and acoustician Russell Johnson's Artec...
Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall is a concert hall in New York City, and is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, with a capacity of 2,738 seats.
Designed by Max Abramovitz, the hall opened in 1962...
EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary
The EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts is a multi-venue arts centre in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada, located in the Olympic Plaza Cultural District.
The oldest part of the city block that houses the EPCOR CENTRE is the Burns Building, named...
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall in Hope Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the home of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and is a Grade II* listed building. It is not the original concert hall on the present site; its...
McCaw Hall
The Marion Oliver McCaw Hall is a performance hall and opera house located in Seattle, Washington. Inaugurated in June 2003, it was constructed within the basic steel support structure of the earlier Seattle Opera House, originally created for the...
Woolsey Hall
Woolsey Hall is the primary auditorium at Yale University. Woolsey Hall, which seats 2,695 people, was built as part of the Yale bicentennial celebration in 1901. The architects were Carrère and Hastings, designers of the New York Public Library....
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building located on six hectares of waterfront land alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore....
Severance Hall, Cleveland
Severance Hall is a concert hall located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The hall has been the home of the Cleveland Orchestra since its opening on February 5, 1931.
Prior to the construction of Severance Hall,...
Victoria Hall, Hanley
For other theatres with a similar name, see Victoria Theatre (disambiguation)
Victoria Hall is a concert hall in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England. It has an organ and space for choir and orchestra. The acoustics are warm and well suited to classical...
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki
Finlandia Hall is a concert hall with a congress wing in Helsinki, Finland, by Töölönlahti bay. The building was designed by Alvar Aalto. The work began in 1967 and was finally completed in 1971.
Alvar Aalto was commissioned by the City of Helsinki...
Konzerthaus, Vienna
The Konzerthaus in Vienna (in German language: Wiener Konzerthaus) was opened 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both tradition and...
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is a large performing arts venue located on Broad Street, along the stretch known as the "Avenue of the Arts", in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is owned and operated by Kimmel Center, Inc., an organization...
Seoul Arts Center
The Seoul Arts Center, literally the Hall of Arts, is a cultural center in Seocho-gu, the southern area of Seoul, South Korea.
Measuring in 12,0350 m², it consists of many different halls and centers for many diverse art forms. It began construction...
Orpheum, Vancouver
The Orpheum is a theatre and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia. Along with the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and the Vancouver Playhouse, it is part of the Vancouver Civic Theatres group of live performance venues. The Orpheum is located on...
Alte Oper, Frankfurt
The Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a major concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The building was inaugurated in 1880. Many important works have been premiered at the Alte Oper, including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937....
Queensland Performing Arts Centre
The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (also known as QPAC) is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre and is a performing arts centre located amidst the picturesque surroundings of South Bank, on the corner of Melbourne Street and Grey Street, in...
The Empress Ballroom
The Empress Ballroom, is a venue at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, England which has hosted acts such as The Beatles, Radiohead and The White Stripes. The White Stripes perform at The Empress Ballroom in their DVD and concert Under Blackpool...
Usher Hall, Edinburgh
The Usher Hall is a concert hall situated on Lothian Road, in the west end of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has hosted concerts and events since its construction in 1914 and can hold approximately 2,900 people in its recently restored auditorium, which is...
Rudolfinum, Prague
The Rudolfinum is a music auditorium in Prague. It is one of the most important neo-renaissance buildings in the city. It is situated at Jan Palach Square on the bank of the river Vltava. For many decades it has been the home-stage of the Czech...
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the building enjoys the rare distinction of acclaim for both its acoustics and its architecture. Indeed it serves as a reference in both...
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland
The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall is a historic theater building and performing arts center in Portland, Oregon, United States. Part of the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, it is home to the Oregon Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic,...
Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, Singapore
The Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall (Chinese: 维多利亚剧院及音乐会堂) is a complex of two buildings and a clock tower joined together by a common corridor and located in the civic district of Singapore.
The complex started off with the building of a town...
Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall, Istambul
Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall is a concert hall located in the Harbiye neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It is one of the country's major concert halls, being the first one designed for classical music. It is named after the great Turkish composer...
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden Festival Theatre) is Germany's largest opera house and concert hall with 2,500 seats.
Opened on April 18, 1998, the new building's architecture incorporates the former central train station of Baden-Baden...
Robinson Center, Little Rock
Robinson Center is the western portion of downtown Little Rock's Statehouse Plaza, including a 2,609-seat performance hall, an exhibition hall, and various meeting rooms.
The most notable architectural feature of the complex is the south façade of...
Stopera, Amsterdam
The Stopera is a building complex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, housing both the city hall of Amsterdam and the Muziektheater, the principal opera house in Amsterdam and the home of De Nederlandse Opera, Het Nationale Ballet, and the Holland...
Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex
The Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex (formerly Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center) is a sports, convention and entertainment complex located in Birmingham, Alabama. It consists of a 17,000 seat arena, a 3,000 seat concert hall, a 220,000...
Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
The Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc Zeneművészeti Egyetem, often abbreviated as Zeneakadémia, "Music Academy") is a concert hall and music conservatory in Budapest, Hungary, founded on November 14, 1875. It is home to the Liszt...
Gasteig, Munich
Gasteig is a cultural center in Munich, which hosts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Richard-Strauss-Conservatory, the folk high school, and the municipal library are all located in the Gasteig. Most of the events of the Filmfest of Munich...
Cincinnati Music Hall
Music Hall, completed in 1878, is Cincinnati's premier classical music performance hall. It serves as the home for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. In January, 1975, it was...
Vigadó Concert Hall, Budapest
Vigadó (usually translated as "Place for Merriment") is located on the right-hand side of the Danube in Budapest, Hungary. Although the acoustics of Budapest's second largest concert hall are lacking, the building itself, designed by Frigyes Feszl...
Grieg Hall
The Grieg Hall (Norwegian: Grieghallen) is a 1,500 seat concert hall in Bergen, Norway. It has been the home of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra since the hall's completion in 1978. It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986, and is the host of...
Perth Concert Hall, Western Australia
The Perth Concert Hall is a concert hall in the centre of Perth, Western Australia. Situated between St Georges Terrace and Terrace Road, it is located near Government House, the Supreme Court Gardens and the Swan Bells, with a view to the Swan...
Gothenburg Concert Hall
Gothenburg Concert Hall is located in Gothenburg, Sweden and was built in 1935. The architect for the facility was Nils Einar Ericsson, a major advocate of Functionalism. However, the Concert Hall has a Neo-Classical exterior look, due to the...
National Concert Hall, Dublin
The National Concert Hall (NCH) (Irish: An Ceoláras Náisiúnta) is a concert hall located on Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin, Ireland, close to St. Stephen's Green, and is the principal national venue for classical music concerts.
Originally built for...
Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town
The Baxter Theatre Centre is a performing arts complex in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. The Baxter, as it is often known, is part of the University of Cape Town; it is also the second largest performing arts complex in Cape Town,...
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts
The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts is a performance venue in downtown Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Opened in 1989, it entertains over 200,000 patrons annually, and consists of three theaters:
Resident companies include the Anchorage...
Atlanta Symphony Hall
Atlanta Symphony Hall is the home venue of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It is located within the Woodruff Arts Center at 1280 Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia.
The venue has a total capacity of 1,762 seats on three levels: 1,074 in the...
The Royal Danish Academy of Music
The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen was founded in 1867 by the composer Niels Wilhelm Gade. It is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest with approximately 400 students. Her Majesty...
Copenhagen Concert Hall
The Copenhagen Concert Hall by Jean Nouvel is a part of the new DR Byen (DR Town), that houses the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR. The concert hall and the DR Town are located in the northern part of Ørestad - an ambitious development area in...
Sibelius Hall, Lahti
The Sibelius Hall (Sibeliustalo) is a concert hall in Lahti, Finland, named after the composer Jean Sibelius. The concert hall was completed in 2000. Architects Kimmo Lintula and Hannu Tikka designed the hall, which is made of wood. The acoustics...
Portsmouth Guildhall
Portsmouth Guildhall is the biggest events venue in the Hampshire city of Portsmouth in England. The building, completed in 1890, was designed in the neo-classical style by architect William Hill, who had earlier been responsible for the design of...
Centennial Concert Hall, Vinnipeg
The Centennial Concert Hall, as part of the Manitoba Centennial Centre, was built as a Canadian Centennial project. It is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at 555 Main Street. The 253,014-square-foot (23,505.8 m) concert hall cost $8 million to...
Auditorium Parco della Musica
The Auditorium Parco della Musica is a large multi-functional public music complex to the north of Rome — in the area where the 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held.
The Parco della Musica was designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Three large...
