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, is a municipal musical venue located in
/ref> The building area covers 8,383,291 m² in total, the number of floors is 3 above ground and 2 underground, and the Hokkaido Engineering Consultants Co.,Ltd is the main builder for the concert hall. The concert hall is home to the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, and its regular concert is held in the hall each year. The hall is one of the venues of the
The building of the Sapporo Concert Hall houses a large main hall, small chamber music hall, and rehearsal rooms. A restaurant, nursery room, and museum shop are also located in the building.
The arena-style large main hall has a capacity of 28,800 m³, and installs 2,008 seats for audiences. Above the main hall, a huge pipe organ is installed. The organ was manufactured by an organ builder, Alfred Kern & Fils Manufacture D'Orgues based in
/ref> and annually an exclusive organ player is invited from overseas. Having 4,976 pipes, the pipe organ is modelled after needle leaved trees in Hokkaidō prefecture. TheThe small chamber music hall
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Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara English version
Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara Japanese version
{{Coord, 43, 2, 39.22, N, 141, 21, 9.77, E, type:landmark, display=title Chūō-ku, Sapporo Concert halls in Japan Music venues completed in 1997 Buildings and structures in Sapporo Tourist attractions in Sapporo
Nakajima Park
is a city park in Chūō-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. The park has a lake, two streams, a museum, a concert hall, an observatory, a historical building housing a tea shop, and several lawns and forests. At the south end, there are two shrines.
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, Sapporo
( ain, サッ・ポロ・ペッ, Satporopet, lit=Dry, Great River) is a city in Japan. It is the largest city north of Tokyo and the largest city on Hokkaido, the northernmost main island of the country. It ranks as the fifth most populous cit ...
, established in 1997, the building is owned by Sapporo City, known for having a huge organ built by Alfred Kern & Fils Manufacture D'Orgues in the main music hall. When Simon Rattle visited with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. It is the resident orchestra at Symphony Hall: a B:Music Venue in Birmingham, which has been its principal performance venue since 1991. Its a ...
in 1998, he described the hall as "the best modern concert hall in the world".
Overview
The building was built on July 4, 1997. Prior to its construction, the nickname for the concert hall "Kitara" had been chosen in March 1995. The nickname is derived from " Kithara", anancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...
musical instrument in the zither
Zithers (; , from the Greek word ''cithara'') are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, the name has been applied to any instrument of the psaltery family, or to an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat ...
family, and also the term "Kita", which means "north" in Japanese.about Kitara, Others/ref> The building area covers 8,383,291 m² in total, the number of floors is 3 above ground and 2 underground, and the Hokkaido Engineering Consultants Co.,Ltd is the main builder for the concert hall. The concert hall is home to the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, and its regular concert is held in the hall each year. The hall is one of the venues of the
Pacific Music Festival The Pacific Music Festival (パシフィック・ミュージック・フェスティバル) is an international classical music festival held annually in Sapporo, Japan. It was founded in 1990 by Leonard Bernstein, along with the London Symphony Or ...
(PMF), an event started with the idea of Leonard Bernstein in 1990.
Facilities
The building of the Sapporo Concert Hall houses a large main hall, small chamber music hall, and rehearsal rooms. A restaurant, nursery room, and museum shop are also located in the building.
The arena-style large main hall has a capacity of 28,800 m³, and installs 2,008 seats for audiences. Above the main hall, a huge pipe organ is installed. The organ was manufactured by an organ builder, Alfred Kern & Fils Manufacture D'Orgues based in Strasbourg, France
Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label= Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...
,Symbol of Kitara/ref> and annually an exclusive organ player is invited from overseas. Having 4,976 pipes, the pipe organ is modelled after needle leaved trees in Hokkaidō prefecture. The
shoebox style
In architecture, shoebox style is a functionalist style of modern architecture characterised by predominantly rectilinear, orthogonal shapes, with regular horizontal rows of windows or glass walls. Dingbat apartments are an undistinguished shoebo ...
small chamber music hall has seating capacity
Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that ...
of 453./ref> The restaurant with
terrace
Terrace may refer to:
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* Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river
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* Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk an ...
is located on the ground floor, and a bar, cafe, are open during the concert. The main concert hall and the small chamber music hall also have seats designed for handicapped audiences.
Organists
1998-1999 Pascal Marsault 1999-2000 Yves Lafargue 2000-2001 Laszlo Fassang (HUNG) 2001-2002 Juan María Pedrero (ESP) 2002-2003 Monica Melcova (SVK) 2003-2004 Jean-Philippe Merckaert (BEL) 2004-2005 Matthieu Magnuszewski 2005-2006 Jens Korndoerfer (GER) 2006-2007 Ghislain Leroy 2007-2008 Sylvain Heili 2008-2009 Cindy Castillo (BEL) 2009-2010 Laurent-Cyprien Giraud 2010-2011 Coralie Amedjkane 2011-2012 Florent Galliere 2012-2013 Maria Magdalena Kaczor (POL) 2013-2014 Octavian Saunier 2014-2015 *** 2015-2016 John Walthausen (USA) 2016-2017 Davide Mariano (IT) 2017-2018 Martin Gregorius (POL) 2018-2019 Simon Bollenot 2019-2020 Adam Tabajdi (HUNG)See also
* List of concert hallsReferences
External links
Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara English version
Sapporo Concert Hall Kitara Japanese version
{{Coord, 43, 2, 39.22, N, 141, 21, 9.77, E, type:landmark, display=title Chūō-ku, Sapporo Concert halls in Japan Music venues completed in 1997 Buildings and structures in Sapporo Tourist attractions in Sapporo