Category talk:Concert halls in England

Missing London & English Concert Halls

Duke's Hall (Royal Academy of Music in London) - [[1]]

St Johns Smith Square (Superb Acoustics in a Magnificent Setting) - [[2]]

Kings Place (Recently Opened Venue in London) - [[3]]

Central Hall - Westminster - London - [[4]]

IndigoO2 (Greenwich, London) - [[5]]

Other London Concert Venues include Jerwood Hall part of the LSO (London Symphony Ochestra at St Lukes)[[6]], Blackheath Halls used by Greenwich Trinity Music School [[7]] and the Royal College of Music Concert Hall (not to be confused with the Royal Academy of Music) whose Concert Hall is currently being refurbished.[[8]]

Most British Contract Orchestras (full time paid orchestras) are members of the Association of British Orchestras (ABO) - [[9]]

The Royal Opera House [[10]], Coliseum [[11]] and Sadlers Wells [[12]], Grand Theatre and Opera House Leeds (Opera North)[[13]], Northern Ballet and Pheonix Theatre Leeds [[14]], Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre (Home of the Birmingham Royal Ballet [[15]]) and Glyndebourne Opera House (Sussex) [[16]] are notable Opera Houses and Ballets with their own Orchestras (A full list can be found on the ABO Website [[17]])

In late 2007, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London was awarded planning permission to redevelop the redundant building at Milton Court. The new building, virtually over the road, will house additional world-class performance facilities: a 625-seat concert hall, 225-seat training theatre, a studio theatre, and space for teaching, office and support services. [[18]]

Other missing English Concert Halls include:

Haden Freeman Concert Hall & Bruntwood Theatre (The Royal Northern College of Music) [[19]]

Menuhin Hall, The Yehudi Menuhin School (Surrey, England) [[20]]

Constance Pilkington Hall (Purcell Music School - Hertfordshire) [[21]]

Wells Cathedral School [[22]] [[23]]

The Venue (Leeds College of Music) [[24]]

Whiteley Hall & the Baronial Hall (Chetham's School of Music - Manchester) [[25]]

Irwin Mitchell Oval Hall (Sheffield City Hall) [[26]] [[27]]

Southampton Guildhall (Home to the City of Southampton Orchestra [[28]] [[29]]

West Road Concert Hall (University of Cambridge) [[30]]

Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall (University of Manchester) [[31]]

Clothworker's Centenary Concert Hall and Great Hall (University of Leeds) [[32]]

Victoria Rooms (University of Bristol) [[33]]

Turner Sims Concert Hall (University of Southampton) [[34]]

Great Hall Complex (Lancaster University) [[35]]

Civic Hall Stratford Upon Avon (Home to the Orchestra of the Swan) [[36]] [[37]]

Hull City Hall (Home to Hull Philhamonic Orchestra) [[38]] [[39]]

Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall (University of York) [[40]]

Butterworth Hall (University of Warwick Arts Centre) [[41]]

Firth Hall (University of Sheffield) [[42]]

Newcastle City Hall & King's Hall (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) [[43]] [[44]]

Fraser Noble Hall (University of Leicester) [[45]] [[46]]

Djanogly Recital Hall, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham [[47]] [[48]]

Great Hall (Imperial College London) [[49]]

Great Hall (University of Reading) [[50]]

Great Hall (University of Exeter) [[51]]

The Tippett Centre (Bath Spa University) [[52]]

St Andrew's Hall Norwich (Home of Norwich Philhamonic Orchestra) [[53]]

Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk [[54]] (Home to the Aldeburgh Festival) [[55]] [[56]])

The Corn Exchange (Cambridge) [[57]]

The Corn Exchange (Kings Lynn - Norfolk) [[58]] [[59]]

The Lowry Centre (Salford, Lancashire) [[60]] [[61]]

Fairfield Halls (Croydon) [[62]]

Royal & Derngate (Northampton) [[63]] [[64]]

Milton Keynes Theatre & MK Stables (Home to Milton Keynes City Orchestra) [[65]] [[66]] [[67]]

Elgar School of Music, Huntingdon Hall (Worcester),[[68]] [[69]]

The Courtyard (Hereford)[[70]] [[71]]

Blackpool Winter Gardens (Empress Orchestra) [[72]]

The Lighthouse Poole Arts Centre (Home to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) [[73]] [[74]]

The Anvil Arts Centre Basingstoke [[75]] [[76]]

Dome Concert Hall, Brighton (Home to Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra) [[77]] [[78]]

Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (St Hilda's College, Oxford) [[79]]

Perhaps some of these and other venues should be given due consideration with a view to being added.

Kings Place - London

Kings Place (near Kings Cross) is London's New Arts and Concert Centre joining other such famous London Venues such as Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Barbican Centre, the Royal Festival Hall (Southbank Centre), Royal Opera House, the Coliseum, the Royal Albert Hall, Duke's Hall (Royal Academy of Music), St Johns Smith Square, Central Hall Westminster etc etc.

First impressions are of a sleekly elegant glass office building. The beautifully detailed shallow curves of the triple glass wall on the street reflect the clouds.

The concert hall -- the first newly built venue in London since the Barbican opened in 1982 -- has acoustics by Arup Associates. It is a superb and elegant space, more beautiful than many of London's music venues.

Seating 420 people, its design reflects a period of international research by the designers who were influenced by the quality of small halls recently built in Tokyo.

Computer models of other venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London and the Musikverein in Vienna provided comparisons. The oak veneers all come from one 500-year-old German oak tree which has provided the hall with an immediate timelessness.

A rehearsal/ conference space (220 seats) will be used for performances ranging from Beethoven to Norwegian jazz and African music.

On the open-plan ground floor, the view through the building leads to Battlebridge Basin where there are waterside bars.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Sinfonietta will be based at Kings Place with room for rehearsal space, offices and educational programs. [[80]][[81]][[82]] [[83]]