Bilkent Concert Hall
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Bilkent Concert Hall is a performing arts center in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. It is located in the Bilkent University campus
Bilkent University
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, commonly referred to as Bilkent University or Bilkent, is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey with the fundamental aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research...

, Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

. Home to the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
The Bilkent Symphony Orchestra is a major symphony orchestra of Turkey located in Bilkent, Ankara. It was founded in 1993 by Bilkent University. Since 1994 the orchestra is based in Bilkent Concert Hall...

, the building hosts over 80 concerts per year. Besides a concert hall where Bilkent Symphony Orchestra based in, the building houses seminar rooms, academic staff offices, classrooms and studios for Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performance Arts and an arena theatre
Theatre in the round
Theatre-in-the-round or arena theatre is any theatre space in which the audience surrounds the stage area...

 for the performances of the theatre studies
Theatre studies
Theatre studies is the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psycho-biological, sociological, and historical contexts. It is an interdisciplinary field which also encompasses the study of theatrical aesthetics and semiotics...

 students.

Construction

Bilkent Concert Hall has been planned to house a faculty, a concert hall and a theatre building. Due to the multipurpose structure of the project, the building has an complex architecture
Architecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

. The architects İlhan kural and Erkut Şahinbaş has designed a central hall type building. While the center of the building is housing concert hall, theatre building and studios to provide darkness and silence, the exterior parts of the building was designed for the offices and classrooms due to the need for daylight.
For the concert hall located at the center of the building, acoustics
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

 consultant Matti Heikkinen has been applied. The whole construction of the building has been finished by the Tepe Contruction company which is also owned by Bilkent University. The building was applauded for the acoustics of concert hall and the structure that allows multipurpose uses. The architects received a nomination for 5th National Architecture Grand Prize. The opening concert of the concert hall was given by the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
Bilkent Symphony Orchestra
The Bilkent Symphony Orchestra is a major symphony orchestra of Turkey located in Bilkent, Ankara. It was founded in 1993 by Bilkent University. Since 1994 the orchestra is based in Bilkent Concert Hall...

 in 1994.

Facilities

Bilkent Concert Hall building, which consists three floors, encompasses an area of nearly 14.500 m2. The concert hall stage includes a stage lift which allows to create an orchestra pit
Orchestra pit
An orchestra pit is the area in a theater in which musicians perform. Orchestral pits are utilized in forms of theatre that require music or in cases when incidental music is required...

 and thus to make the stage available to stage opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 productions. It has two Steinway concert grand pianos. The interior walls of concert hall are coated with movable acoustic panels
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...

 which make the concert hall a recording studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...

 as well. The building hosts concerts in its concert hall for 750 seats and its foyer
Foyer
A foyer or lobby is a large, vast room or complex of rooms adjacent to the auditorium...

, performances of theatre students in its arena theatre for 200 seats and houses lots of studios, seminar rooms, classrooms, a cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...

 and a café
Café
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