Concertgebouw Amsterdam Schedule

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In addition to orchestras, jazz and world music groups perform in the Grote Zaal.

Pi De Bruijn was the architect for the contemporary annex to the original hall.Today, some nine hundred concerts per year take place in the Concertgebouw, for a public of over 800,000, making it the second most-visited concert hall in the world (Rome's Parco della musica ranking N.1 with over one million).

In the 1980s, the hall embarked on extensive fund-raising for renovations after the hall was found to be slowly sinking into the ground.

The Kleine Zaal has 478 seats.When the Concertgebouw was built, acoustics were something of a black art.

During later restorations, particular care has been taken not to alter the materials used for interior decoration with this in mind.

One of the highlights of Concertgebouw season is the annual New Year's Concert by the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (Netherlands Wind Ensemble).The current managing director of the Concertgebouw is Simon Reinink.

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