Concert hall - Definition and Overview

A Concert hall is a cultural building, which serves as performance venue, chiefly for classical instrumental music.

Many larger cities have both public and private concert halls.

List of major concert halls

• 92nd Street YMCA , NYC
• Aarhus Concert Hall, Aarhus, Denmark
• Alice Tully Hall, NYC
• Alte Oper Frankfurt [1] (http://www.alteoper.de)
• Amphitheater at Regency Park (Symphony Lake), Cary, NC
• Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas, Spain
• Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, Spain
• Avery Fisher Hall, NYC
• Barbican Centre, London
• Bass Performance Hall, Fort Worth, TX
• Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, Birmingham, AL
• Bohemian Hall, NYC
• Boston Symphony Hall, Boston
• Brooklyn Academy of Music , NYC
• Brooklyn Conservatory of Music , NYC
• Bushnell Memorial, Hartford, CT
• Carnegie Hall , NYC
• City Center, NYC
• Florence Gould Hall , NYC
• Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany
• Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
• Great Hall at Cooper Union, NYC
• Joyce Theater, NYC
• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
• Kimmel Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• Konzerthaus Berlin [2] (http://www.konzerthaus.de)
• Konzerthaus Brügge
• Konzerthaus Dortmund [3] (http://www.konzerthaus-dortmund.de/)
• Konzerthaus Freiburg [4] (http://www.konzerthaus-freiburg.de/)
• Kursaal, San Sebastian/Donosti, Spain
• L´Auditori, Barcelona, Spain
• La Guardia Concert Hall, NYC
• Lincoln Center, NYC
• Lucerne Concert Hall, Lucerne, Switzerland (in German)
• Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada
• Merkin Concert Hall, NYC
• Millennium Park, Chicago
• Minnesota Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
• Morse Recital Hall, NYC
• Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands (in Dutch)
• Olavshallen Concert Hall, Trondheim, Norway (in Norwegian)
• Orchestra Hall, Chicago
• Osaka Symphony Hall, Osaka, Japan
• Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain
• Palau de la Música de Valencia, Spain
• Paul Recital Hall, NYC
• Philharmonia, Berlin, Germany
• Pier 6 Pavilion, Baltimore, MD
• Queens College Concert Hall, NYC
• Ravinia Pavilion, Chicago
• Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest
• Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada
• Royal Albert Hall, London, England
• Royal Festival Hall, London, England
• Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
• Severance Hall, Cleveland, OH
• Shiroishi Concert Hall, Shiroishi City, Japan
• Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA
• Silva Concert Hall, Eugene, OR
• Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm, Sweden (in Swedish)
• Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD
• Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
• Symphony Space, NYC
• Tanglewood, Stockbridge, Massachusett
• Teatro Monumental, Madrid, Spain
• Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space Concert Hall, Tokyo, Japan
• Town Hall, NYC
• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
• Wang Center, Boston
• Wiener Konzerthaus [5] (http://www.konzerthaus.at/)
• Wigmore Hall, London, England
• Wolf Trap Filene Center, Washington, DC

Industry associations

• International Association of Assembly Managers [6] (http://www.iaam.org)
• World Council for Venue Management [7] (http://www.venue.org)