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, is a municipal musical venue located in Nakajima Park,
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
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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
Sapporo
is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in Hokkaido, Japan. Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River. Sapporo is the capital ...
, 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
Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is a British conductor with German citizenship. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rat ...
visited with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 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
The kithara (), Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching mu ...
", an ancient Greek
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musical instrument
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in the zither
Zither (; , from the Greek ''cithara'') is a class of stringed instruments. The modern instrument has many strings stretched across a thin, flat body.
Zithers are typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers or a ...
family, and also the term "Kita", which means "north" in Japanese. 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 (PMF), an event started with the idea of Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was th ...
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
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a Musical keyboard, keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes are provide ...
is installed. The organ was manufactured by an organ builder, Alfred Kern & Fils Manufacture D'Orgues based in Strasbourg, France,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 small chamber music hall has
seating capacity
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of 453. The restaurant with terrace
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Landforms and construction
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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 halls
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This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, dramatic theatres or convention ...
References
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