is a
concert hall
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in
Ochanomizu,
Tokyo
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,
Japan
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. It is named in honour of
cellist
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Pau Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English by his Castilian Spanish name Pablo Casals, . The hall opened in 1987 as a venue for
chamber music
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and has a
shoebox-style auditorium which seats 511.
Arata Isozaki
Arata Isozaki (磯崎 新, ''Isozaki Arata''; born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect, urban designer, and theorist from Ōita. He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986 and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2019.
Biography
Isozaki was ...
was the architect, with
acoustic design by
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 ...
.
In 1997, for the tenth anniversary celebrations, a 41
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organ by
Jürgen Ahrend was installed.
The hall had originally been owned and sponsored by publishers but economic conditions resulted in the withdrawal of funding in 2000. In 2003
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...
acquired the Ochanomizu Square Building, of which the hall forms part, from the company. On 31 March 2010 the university closed the hall. A campaign has been launched to reopen the hall by the Save Casals Hall Committee, with pianist the chair and
Marta Casals Istomin, Pablo Casals' widow, an honorary adviser.
See also
*
Pau Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan: ; 29 December 187622 October 1973), usually known in English by his Castilian Spanish name Pablo Casals,
References
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Music venues in Tokyo
Concert halls in Japan
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Music venues completed in 1987
1987 establishments in Japan
Buildings and structures completed in 1987
Arata Isozaki buildings