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Calixa Lavallée

He conducted major orchestral and operatic productions in important concert halls such as the Montréal Academy of Music in Montréal and directed at the Grand Opera House in New York.

Herrengasse

One of the Liechtenstein palaces, located at Herrengasse 8, housed the famous Bösendorfer-Konzertsaal, a concert hall established in 1872.

M-Wave

The two movable stands, each of which have seating for 1,210 spectators, allow the arena to be converted into various configurations including concert hall or a football field.

Sandfields, Port Talbot

The Lido also has a spa, gym, and concert hall where famous bands have played, including in recent years McFly, All Saints, Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers and Lostprophets.

Skálmöld

In November, 2013, Skálmöld played a series of concerts with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavík.

Stærekassen

In 1928 the State Radio relocated to rented rooms in the Axelborg building on Vesterbrogade, a former bank headquarters, but the need for more suitable facilities, with proper broadcasting studios and a concert hall, soon became evident.

Teatro Monumental

The Teatro Monumental (Monumental Theatre) is a concert hall in Madrid.

Victoria Hall disaster

The Victoria Hall disaster, in which 183 children died, occurred in Sunderland, Great Britain on 16 June 1883 at the Victoria Hall, which was a large concert hall on Toward Road facing onto Mowbray Park.


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Addie MS

The performance, entitled Cantabile 2, made its debut at Aula Simfonia Concert Hall in Kebayoran, Jakarta, on 16 July and featured works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Mikhail Glinka.

Albert Asriyan

The band also performed at major events such as the Rock Panorama of Baku-1988, Concert for the USSR government at Republic Concert Hall-Lenin Sarai in Baku, The State Central Concert Hall Russia in Moscow, Column Hall of the House of Unions at the Kremlin, as well as all over the country and outside.

Antal Zalai

As a recitalist, Antal Zalai has performed in the Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C., the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Victoria Hall (Geneva), the Concert Hall of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver among others.

Avery Fisher Hall

The program concentrated on concert hall acoustics, and, like the opening night concert, was shown over the CBS television network.

Central Military Club

The concert hall has also seen performances by actors and opera singers like Krastyu Sarafov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Feodor Chaliapin, Boris Christoff, and bands like Ladytron etc.

Clef Club

Incorporated by James Reese Europe in 1910, it was a combination musicians' hangout, fraternity club, labor exchange, and concert hall, across the street from Marshall's Hotel.

Cultura Artística

Teatro Cultura Artística, the theatre and concert hall owned by Sociedade de Cultura Artística in São Paulo, Brazil.

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

Eesti Laul 2010 was held on 12 March at the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn, hosted by Estonian actors Ott Sepp and Märt Avandi.

Gävle Symphony Orchestra

In 1998, a purpose-built concert hall was constructed overlooking the Gavleån.

Giovanni Gallini

On 28 June 1774, with Johann Christian Bach and Carl Friedrich Abel, he purchased premises in Hanover Square, where the three men built a splendid concert hall—the Hanover Square Rooms—95 feet by 30.

Hans Scharoun

After the war he was able to realise his architectural understanding, both ambitious and humanistic, in exemplary buildings; e.g., in the Stuttgart apartment towers of Romeo and Julia (1954–59), in the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Lünen (1956–62) and in the famed Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin (1956–63).

Ibsenhuset

The building currently houses large concert hall, "Dovregubbens hall" (In the Hall of the Mountain King), accommodating 800 guests; the smaller "Peer Gynt hall" takes up to 250 people.

Jakob Weidemann

Weidemann was also commissioned for a number of permanent installations, such as the stained glass in the basilica in Steinkjer, Steinkjer Church (1965), Mai inside the concert hall at Maihaugen in Lillehammer (1967), Alf Bjerckes Fabrikker in Alnabru (1960); Norsk Hydro’s headquarters building in Oslo (1960–1961), Alfaset Chapel in Oslo (1971) and the M/S Royal Viking Sea (1973).

Katie Targett-Adams

Targett-Adams performed as the singer soloist in 'Celtic Connections', accompanied by the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall on March 3, 2012, a concert organized by the HKSAR government and Irish Embassy.

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

This tale is about how a German merchant buys frozen songs from the people and shows them to a packed concert hall in Germany.

Lavinia Meijer

In the period 2006-2008, Lavinia is performing in the series "Rising Stars" with concerts in Cologne (Philharmonie), Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Paris (Cité-de-la-Musique), Vienna (Wiener Musikverein), Birmingham (Symphony Hall), Athens (Concert Hall), Brussels (Paleis voor schone kunsten), Luxembourg (Philharmonie), Stockholm (Konserthus) and New York (Carnegie Hall).

Leipziger Straße

Around the corner a Concerthaus was erected in the 1860s, the concert hall of the Benjamin Bilse orchestra, predecessor of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Lisinski

Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall, concert hall and convention center in Zagreb opened in 1973

Malaysian choirs

Penang State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Funded by the Penang state government with its own dedicated performing venue at the Dewan Sri Pinang Concert Hall.

Malmö Concert Hall

A new combined concert hall and congress centre is currently being planned in Neptuniparken close to the waterfront in Malmö, with several prominent architects involved including Daniel Libeskind and Snøhetta.

MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building

The architecture of Beall Concert Hall is reminiscent of the Boston Symphony Hall, which was studied by Ellis F. Lawrence during his time as an architecture student in Boston.

Martin Majoor

The design département of this concert hall was one of the first in the Netherlands to use an Apple Macintosh computer for its printed matter.

Midnight Youth

Skyline Studios(Drums) in Manhattan, GoodleString (Guitars,Drums,Vocals,Bass)in Brooklyn, The Buddy Project (guitars and vocals) in Queens and (Grand Piano) City College's Sonic Arts Center concert hall were all unique recording environments Dover selected for their debut record The Brave Don't Run".

National Theatre of Strasbourg

In 1922, the conservatory of Strasbourg (founded in 1855, the same year as the Orchestre philharmonique) was moved into the upper part of the building and several teaching rooms were built in as well as a concert hall.

Nikolay Madoyan

Madoyan performed at the Tivoli Hall, Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall, Milan Verdi Theatre and the Big Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

Norrbotten NEO

The ensemble was formed 2007 and is based in the concert hall Studio Acusticum in Piteå, Sweden.

Norwood Town Hall

The Town Hall's concert hall featured in the film Shine with Geoffrey Rush playing the role of the pianist David Helfgott.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine (3M heiress and arts patron) dreamed of a European-style concert hall offering “everything from opera to the Russian circus.”

Pavillon Baltard

Pavillon Baltard is a concert hall located in Nogent-sur-Marne, France.

Phillip Johnston

Throughout the 80s and 90s and early 2000s, he worked as a leader (The Microscopic Septet, Big Trouble, Transparent Quartet) co-leader and sideman (Mikel Rouse, Kitty Brazelton, Bobby Radcliff), and began a parallel career in composition for film, theatre, dance and the concert hall.

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg

The Grand-Ducal family supported an impressive concert hall situated at Pavlovsk station, which proved popular with the middle classes, and attracted names such as Johann Strauss II, Franz Liszt, and Hector Berlioz.

Pyatt Hall

Pyatt Hall is a concert hall on Seymour Street, Vancouver, Canada.

Raphaëlle Farman

Since then, she has undertaken various roles on stage or in the concert hall, developing her vocal and artistic personality in such roles as: Michaëla (Carmen), Esclarmonde (Esclarmonde), Violetta (La traviata), Mimi (La bohème), and also in Mozart operas (as Donna Anna, Fiordiligi, and the Countess).

Reggae/Soca Music Awards

The Reggaesoca Music Awards were first presented in 1994 by its founder Winsome ‘Lady C’ Charlton at The Bailey Concert Hall in Davie, South Florida.

Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

The Sosnoff Theater, an intimate, 900-seat theater with an orchestra, parterre, and two balcony sections, features an orchestra pit for opera and acoustics designed by Yasuhisa Toyota, including an acoustic shell that turns the theater into a concert hall for performances of chamber and symphonic music.

Sapporo Concert Hall

When Simon Rattle visited with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1998, he described the hall as "the best modern concert hall in the world".

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation

Sometimes known in English as the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra gives concerts in Moscow at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

Summa Cum Laude Festival

The new Vienna Boys' Choir's concert hall MuTh, opened in December 2012 and located at Vienna´s Augarten

Swallow Hill Music Association

The concert hall brought in artist like Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Bette White and many others, establishing a solid reputation to a business that had already been acclaimed by many.

Teatro del Libertador General San Martín

Noting the absence of a concert hall in his native Córdoba, Provincial Justice Minister Ramón J. Cárcano proposed the establishment of one to Governor Ambrosio Olmos in 1887.

The Anvil

The Anvil, Basingstoke, a theatre and concert hall in Basingstoke, England

The Passage

The concert hall became renowned as a setting for literary readings attended by the likes of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Taras Shevchenko.

Tiziana Scandaletti

Recent activities include tours in Europe, Asia, Australia and America, performing at Gasteig in Munich, Unerhoerte Musik in Berlin, Xinghai Concert Hall in Canton, Liaoning Grand Theatre in Shenyang, Opera Theater in Ulan Bator, 37th International Composers' Symposium of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, Artlink Festival in Belgrade and SoundaXis Festival in Toronto.

Tom Lee Music

Tom Lee Music owned a professional recording studio inside its retail branch at Olympian City, Kowloon, Hong Kong and a concert hall for 200 audience at Megabox in Kowloon Bay.

Walter Felsenstein

In Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau, he became closely acquainted with the contemporary concert hall.

Wonderland Road

Wonderland Road takes its name from the Wonderland Gardens concert hall located near Springbank Park.

Yasuhisa Toyota

As of late 2006, his works in progress included the Shenzhen Cultural Center Concert Hall for the People's Republic of China, Finland's Helsinki Music Center, the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg and the renovation of the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.