News
18 December 2007
The new concert hall at the Academy of Music
The concert hall with almost five hundred seats is the most important part of the “Symphony” Centre for Music Education opened on Tuesday at the Academy of Music in Katowice.
The Academy has been awaiting this moment for seventy eight years and Katowice for one hundred and fifty. An inauguration ceremony was honoured by the performances of joint academy choirs and the Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jacek Kaspszyk.
The construction of the centre was the biggest cultural investment in Silesia in recent years. It cost about PLN 55 million, most of which was financed from the EU funds.
According to the project of Tomasz Konior and Krzysztof A. Barysz, two austere brick blocks were being built at the rear of neo-Gothic academy from the mid 2005. One of them houses a library and an administration office, the other, much bigger one, houses a concert hall. Additionally, the newly created part includes: the Silesian music archives where the most valuable scores will be kept, a modern recording studio, a room for music therapy, specialist rooms and underground garage.
The concert on Tuesday was a part of the festival completing the commemoration of the Karol Szymanowski Year. A bust of the composer deceased 70 years ago and the patron of the Academy in Katowice was uncovered by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, one of the greatest Polish composers.
The rector of the Academy, professor Eugeniusz Knapik announces that five international festivals will have taken place in the new concert hall by the end of this academic year. Admission will probably be free.
The construction of the centre was the biggest cultural investment in Silesia in recent years. It cost about PLN 55 million, most of which was financed from the EU funds.
According to the project of Tomasz Konior and Krzysztof A. Barysz, two austere brick blocks were being built at the rear of neo-Gothic academy from the mid 2005. One of them houses a library and an administration office, the other, much bigger one, houses a concert hall. Additionally, the newly created part includes: the Silesian music archives where the most valuable scores will be kept, a modern recording studio, a room for music therapy, specialist rooms and underground garage.
The concert on Tuesday was a part of the festival completing the commemoration of the Karol Szymanowski Year. A bust of the composer deceased 70 years ago and the patron of the Academy in Katowice was uncovered by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, one of the greatest Polish composers.
The rector of the Academy, professor Eugeniusz Knapik announces that five international festivals will have taken place in the new concert hall by the end of this academic year. Admission will probably be free.