Helsinki Music Centre
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The Helsinki Music Centre (Finnish: Helsingin musiikkitalo, Swedish: Musikhuset i Helsingfors) is a concert hall and a music center in Töölönlahti, Helsinki. The building is home to Sibelius Academy and two symphony orchestras, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
Helsinki Music Centre | |
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General information | |
Type | Concert Hall |
Location | Helsinki, Finland |
Address | Mannerheimintie 13 A |
Coordinates | 60°10′25″N 24°56′06″E |
Construction started | October 22, 2008 |
Completed | April 2011 |
Cost | 189 million euros (building 166 M€, equipment 23 M€) [1] |
Client | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Academy |
Owner | Senate Properties City of Helsinki Yleisradio. |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 36,000 m2 (390,000 sq ft) |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Marko Kivistö, Ola Laiho and Mikko Pulkkinen |
Main contractor | SRV |
The Music Centre is located on a site in the centre of Helsinki between Finlandia Hall and the museum of contemporary art Kiasma, and across the street from the Parliament of Finland. The vineyard-type main concert hall seats 1,704 people. The building contains five smaller rooms for 140–400 listeners. These include a chamber music hall, a chamber opera hall, an organ hall, a 'black box' room for electrically amplified music and a rehearsal hall. The smaller rooms are used regularly by the students of Sibelius Academy for their training and student concerts.