Bilkent Concert Hall () is a performing arts center in

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. It is located within the

Bilkent University Bilkent University () is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with th ...

campus in

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. Home to the

Bilkent Symphony Orchestra The Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Bilkent Senfoni Orkestrası in Turkish language, Turkish, also known as BSO) is a major symphony orchestra of Turkey located in Bilkent, Ankara. It was founded in 1993 by Bilkent University. Since 1994 the orchestra ...

, the building hosts over 80 concerts per year.Bilkent Symphony Orchestra concert calendar
from the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra website, accessed: 19 June 2011 Besides the concert hall itself, the building houses seminar rooms, academic staff offices, classrooms and studios for the university's ''Faculty of Music and Performance Arts'', together with an arena theatre for performances from

theatre studies Theatre studies (sometimes referred to as theatrology or dramatics) is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psychological, sociological, and historical contexts. It is an interdisciplinary field which also enco ...

students.

Construction and design

Bilkent Concert Hall houses a faculty, a

concert hall A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage (theatre), stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats. This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, dramatic theatres or convention ...

and a theatre building. Architects İlhan Kural and Erkut Şahinbaş designed a ''central hall type'' building. While the concert hall, theatre building, and studios are located towards the core of the building to provide sound isolation, offices and classrooms are located facing outwards and around the core, to provide the necessary exposure to daylight. Acoustics consultant Matti Heikkinen worked on designing the acoustics for the concert hall. The structure was built by construction company Tepe, itself owned by Bilkent University. The architects involved received a nomination for 5th National Architecture Grand Prize.Bilkent Concert Hall vision and projects
from the Architect İlhan Kural's website, accessed: 19 June 2011 The opening concert of the concert hall was given by the

in 1994.

Facilities

The building, which consists of three floors, encompasses an area of nearly 14.500 m2. The concert hall stage includes a stage lift which allows for the formation an

orchestra pit An orchestra pit is an area in a theatre (usually located in a lowered area in front of the stage) in which musicians perform. The orchestra plays mostly out of sight in the pit, rather than on the stage as for a concert, when providing music fo ...

used in

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

s. Two Steinway concert grand pianos are available. The interior walls of the concert hall are coated with movable acoustic panels, which make the concert hall a

recording studio A recording studio is a specialized facility for Sound recording and reproduction, recording and Audio mixing, mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home proje ...

as well. The building hosts concerts in its concert hall for 750 seats and its

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, performances of theatre students in its arena theatre for 200 seats and houses studios, seminar rooms, classrooms, a

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and a

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