Bing Concert Hall is a performing arts facility at
Stanford University that opened in January 2013.
The heart of the building is the oval-shaped
concert hall, which has 842 seats arranged in a
vineyard style The vineyard style is a design of a concert hall where the seating surrounds the stage, rising up in serried rows in the manner of the sloping terraces of a vineyard. It may be contrasted with the shoebox style, which has a rectangular auditorium ...
surrounding the stage in terraces. All the seats are within 75 feet of the conductor, and the seats in the center section begin at the stage level.
On the north side of the central concert hall is the smaller Bing Studio, which can be configured to accommodate a variety of performance types, e.g., cabaret, club, and theater.
The hall is named after Peter and Helen Bing, notable donors to Stanford who donated the lead gift of $50 million towards its construction
Eventual construction cost was $111.9 million.
Bing Concert Hall was designed by Richard Olcott of
Ennead Architects
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, with the acoustics done by
Yasuhisa Toyota
(born 1952) is a Japanese acoustician, who has been chief acoustician for over 50 projects worldwide, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Bard College Performing Arts Center in New York, the Elbphilharmonie in H ...
of
Nagata Acoustics
is an international acoustical consultancy firm. In Japan they have been involved in the design of over seventy concert halls, including the Suntory Hall, Sapporo Concert Hall, Muza Kawasaki Symphony Hall, Kyoto Concert Hall and Hyogo Perform ...
, who also worked on
Walt Disney Concert Hall in
Los Angeles, California
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and
New World Symphony
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New or NEW may refer to:
Music
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Albums and EPs
* ''New'' (album), by Paul McCartney, 2013
* ''New'' (EP), by Regurgitator, ...
in
Miami Beach, Florida.
[ This reference includes some more extensive info on the construction as well as many pictures.]
References
Stanford University places
Music venues in the San Francisco Bay Area
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