www.muziekgebouw.nl

The Muziekgebouw – founded in 2005 – is the most important stage in the Netherlands for contemporary music. We offer more than 250 concerts per season in a great variety of genres including classical and electronic music, world music and jazz. Every year more than 150,000 visitors enjoy our concerts and educational activities. Our main concert hall is facilitated with the highest standards of modern technique.

The ceiling, walls, chairs and floor of the hall are all flexible and moveable, which make it a very suitable hall for intimate chamber music as well as bigger ensembles. Musicians and critics acknowledge the excellent acoustics.

The Muziekgebouw was designed by the Danish 3XN architects. The building is characterized by the use of robust natural materials as wood, glass and concrete. With 1,000 sun panels on the roof and a sophisticated heat cold installation the building is environmentally sustainable. The building also houses the Bimhuis, the jazz venue of Amsterdam.

www.musikkenshus.dk

Inaugurated in 2014, the building consists of a concert hall and numerous practice rooms. It is home to the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Academy of Music, several smaller orchestras, two music and art departments of Aalborg University, the Institute of Music and the Danish Jazz Center.

It is made up of the main hall with a 1,300 people capacity, a smaller hall with 300-people capacity, and the “Classica” and “Ritmica” halls able to host 200 people. The Foyer has capacity for more than 2,000 people and also houses a restaurant.

www.musiikkitalo.fi/en

Inaugurated in 2011 and designed by architect Marko Kivistö, the complex is home to the Sibelius Academy and two symphony orchestras, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic.
The main concert chamber can host 1,700 people.
The building contains five small rooms used regularly by students from the Sibelius Academy.

www.lielaisdzintars.lv

A multifunctional art center of 14’126 sq.m. designed by the architect Volker Giencke and inaugurated in 2015, provides a broad spectrum of culture services including art events in various genres representing Latvian and foreign professional arts, music, dance, visual and new media arts. It is also the home of Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Liepāja Music, Art and Design Secondary School, a recording studio and a restaurant.

It consists of a Great hall with 991 seats, a Chamber Hall with 180-people capacity and Experimental stage that can host up to 120 people.

There are also spaces for conferences, private events and exhibitions like Civita Nova 6 with 120 seats and Art space Civita Nova that can host up to 300 people. In 2021 it also became a digital concert hall followed by a new platform www.amberdigitalhall.com for broadcasting concerts and other events.

www.lerocherdepalmer.fr

A multifunctional complex of 6,700 sq.m. designed by the architect Bernard Tschumi and inaugurated in 2010, it is located on the right bank of the River Garonne. It consists of a large hall with a 1,200-people capacity, a small hall with a 650-people capacity and the Salon de musiques, a modular hall for concerts or recordings.

www.kursaal.eus/es

Inaugurated in 1999 and designed by Rafael Moneo, Kursaal is located on the seafront and in the heart of the city centre.

With two auditoriums seating 1,806 and 624 people, it also has 20 fully equipped meeting rooms and numerous exhibition spaces.
A unique and differentiating feature of the Congress Centre is the restaurant service headed by Andoni Luis Aduriz, an internationally renowned chef distinguished with two Michelin stars.

www.euskalduna.eus/es

Euskalduna Bilbao Conference Centre is a 58,200 sq.m. multi-purpose complex located in the heart of the city of Bilbao. is right in the heart of the city, just a few minutes from Bilbao International Airport, and with excellent connections via road, rail and sea and is within walking distance of the majority of hotels in the city; it is very close to some of the great museums in Bilbao.

Euskalduna Bilbao features highly versatile facilities that can be adapted to meet all needs, offering multiple solutions and setups to allow to customize your event.

Ranging from office rooms for fewer than ten people to an auditorium seating 2,164. A total of 25 rooms of different sizes and characteristics, with specialised equipment for the staging of congresses and events in general, as well as complex shows in the larger rooms. These rooms are supplemented by a 4,200 sq.m. multi-purpose Exhibition Hall, which can be divided if required, and which offers easy goods access for any erection work. The size and open-plan design of this hall permit its use for banquets with more than 2,000 guests on the same level.

www.ccb.pt

Originally built to house the Portuguese Presidency of the European Economic Community, it has been used as a cultural centre since 1993.

It was designed by Vittorio Gregotti together with the Portuguese architect Manuel Salgado. It consists of a large room and a small room, a large exhibition centre and a historic design museum.

It houses conference rooms, a coffee shop and a restaurant overlooking an olive garden.

www.kilden.com

Kilden is the second largest centre for performing arts in Norway, a spearhead and standard-bearer for the whole of Southern Norway and an arena for great artistic experiences and visionary projects.

The arts centre houses Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Kilden Theatre, Kilden Opera, Kilden Culture and Kilden Dialogue. They come together to represent an unparalleled operating concept in one and the same cultural organisation.

Kilden Performing Arts Centre’s programme is diverse and has a wide appeal. Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Kilden Theatre and Kilden Opera provide magnificent music experiences and dramatic art.

Kilden Kultur stages external productions and organises a comprehensive and all-round programme.

https://www.gasteig.de/en/

Germany’s largest cultural center with 90,000 sq.m., built in the heart of Munich in 1985. It is home to the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the City Library, the Adult Education Center, the University of Music and Theatre, several festivals and more than 400 event organisers. Besides the “Philharmonic Hall” with capacity for 2,500 people there are several further halls, large foyers and a restaurant.
Due to a planned restoration of the building, the Gasteig in 2021 moved to a temporary location called Gasteig HP8 with “Hall E”, a historic industrial monument, and “Isarphilharmonie”, a brand new concert hall with 1,950 seats, built by gmp architects and acoustic designer Yasuhisa Toyota.

https://ligetbudapest.hu/

At the House of Music Hungary, where music really belongs to all, we welcome visitors of all ages, with a preference for any genre of music and with every level of musical skill, as well as everybody with an openness to all forms of musical interaction. Our diverse range of events provides a plethora of musical experiences, including exhibitions, concerts, playing music together, singing, dance, exciting music education workshops and lecture courses.

The House of Music Hungary has a tripartite structure in regard to both its architectural and institutional organisation. On the underground level places have been allocated to permanent and temporary exhibitions on an area of more than 2,000 sq.m.. The two interior spaces on the level of the park are suitable for hosting live music events, concerts and workshops. In the openair garden area people can have a pleasant conversation while enjoying concerts and performances on an open-air stage. The upstairs level houses the library providing a venue for quiet study, learning and education with works primarily on popular music, as well as music education rooms with workshops bringing young people closer to music.

It is our mission to promote music so that it would play a defining role in the lives of every family, child and young adult. We hope to achieve this through the nurturing and experience-based presentation of the values of Hungarian folk music, classical music, popular music and other genres of global music.

We would like to present the broadest possible spectrum of genres with no boundaries. It is our priority goal to provide a forum for talented, young musicians, while encouraging individual voices and promoting unique performances as well as productions and milieus off the mainstream. We would like to draw attention to the colourfulness and multifaceted nature of Hungarian music and safeguard Hungary’s musical past. We wish to provide opportunities for performers with less access to the music scene by organising stop-gap events and debuts realised in cooperation with performers from Hungary and abroad.

https://www.laseinemusicale.com/

Inaugurated in April 2017 by Bob Dylan and Insula orchestra, directed by Laurence Equilbey, the Seine Musicale has, in the space of almost 6 years, established itself
as the island of all musical genres and all shows.
This musical ship, designed by the French and Japanese architects Jean de Gastines and Shigeru Ban, is a true architectural masterpiece, a 40,000 sq.m. liner with spaces dedicated to music, exhibitions, promenades, restaurants …

The heart of the Seine Musicale is its two performance spaces.

The Grande Seine can, according to its configuration, welcome a public of between 2,500 and 6,200 people. Measuring 35 m wide, 40 m deep and 17 m high, it is the largest stage in France. Fitted out with state-of-the-art stage equipment, this versatile space can welcome the most diverse and audacious performances, such as concerts, musicals, ballets and major shows (West Side Story, Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, Avishai Cohen, Sting, Romeo et Juliette de Benjamin Millepied…) …

The Auditorium, mainly dedicated to unamplified music (Lisa Simone, Ibrahim Maalouf, Philippe Jaroussky, Bireli Lagrene, Jeanne Added, Take 6, Sona Jobarteh, Natalie Dessay…), is the Seine Musicale’s figurehead and symbol.
With a seating capacity of up to 1,150, the Auditorium is like a beautiful jewellery casket. With its wooden sphere, its ceiling made from cardboard, wood and
paper tubes, its main sail adorned with almost 800 sq.m. of solar panels, the Auditorium is animated with a subtle play of light and shadow, beautiful materials and a 360° panorama …

The Seine Musicale also includes a range of private rooms, which are used to host public exhibitions and private company events.

https://www.flagey.be/en/

Flagey is an iconic culture house in the former headquarters of the national radio and television institution (arch. Joseph Diongre), situated next to the Ixelles ponds in Brussels. As one of the biggest culture organizations in Belgium, it is a meeting spot for visitors of all ages. Flagey offers high-quality programming which is devoted to
jazz, world, classic and contemporary music, and the moving image. Following its slogan “sustainable excellence”, Flagey invests in innovation and youth. It aspires towards excellence and sustainability which is accessible to all.

Flagey programs more than 300 events per year with national and international artists such as Martha Argerich, Paul Lewis, Barbara Hannigan, Avishai Cohen, Hélène Grimaud and Daniil Trifonov. Flagey reaches a broad audience of about 300,000 visitors a year and builds on long-term artistic collaborations with among others Brussels Philharmonic, Vlaams Radiokoor, Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Collegium Vocale Gent and the Queen Elizabeth Competition.

Since 2019, Flagey houses “Flagey Academy”, a choir project dedicated to inclusion and excellence, which offers free choir rehearsals and singing lessons to more than 500 children (6 to 12 years old) in primary schools in Brussels, as well as a pre-professional choir education to 30 youngsters (10 to 20 years old).The training is brought by professional musicians and conductors, who are guided and advised by an international artistic committee.