| Helsinki Music Centre | |
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 Helsinki Music Centre in August 2011, shortly before opening | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Concert Hall |
| Location |  Helsinki, Finland |
| Address | Mannerheimintie 13 A |
| Coordinates | 60°10′25″N 24°56′06″E / 60.17361°N 24.93500°E |
| Construction started | October 22, 2008 |
| Completed | April 2011 |
| Cost | 189 million euros (building 166 M€, equipment 23 M€) [1] |
| Client | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Sibelius Academy |
| Owner | Senate Properties City of Helsinki Yleisradio. |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 36,000 m2 (390,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Marko Kivistö, Ola Laiho and Mikko Pulkkinen |
| Main contractor | SRV |
The Helsinki Music Centre (Finnish: Helsingin musiikkitalo, Swedish: Musikhuset i Helsingfors) is a concert hall and a music center in Töölönlahti, Helsinki. The building is home to Sibelius Academy and two symphony orchestras, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Music Centre is located on a site in the centre of Helsinki between Finlandia Hall and the museum of contemporary art Kiasma, and across the street from the Parliament of Finland. The vineyard-type main concert hall seats 1,704 people. The building contains five smaller rooms for 140–400 listeners. These include a chamber music hall, a chamber opera hall, an organ hall, a 'black box' room for electrically amplified music and a rehearsal hall. The smaller rooms are used regularly by the students of Sibelius Academy for their training and student concerts.
- ^ YLE Radio 1 Archived 2011-09-07 at the Wayback Machine