Nokia Concert Hall

The developers of Scandinavia’s most modern 1,800-seat concert, theatre and conference hall in the Solaris Centre in Tallinn have agreed to start an extensive cooperation project with Nokia Eesti and to name the hall complex that will be opened in October the Nokia Concert Hall, announced Aivar Sirelpuu, head of Nokia Concert Hall.

Sirelpuu said to our Tallinn, Estonia news magazine that the hall complex is undoubtedly the most modern and technically most advanced multifunctional entertainment centre in Scandinavia whose objectives and values are similar to those of Nokia, a company that offers innovative communication solutions and connects people.

“Nokia’s decision to contribute so significantly into making our cultural life more active deserves full credit. I hope that together we can make the Nokia Concert Hall and local culture events sound beautifully both in Estonia and in the wide world,” Sirelpuu said in comment closing his intervention about the project for Talin Estonia.

Jüri Teemant, member of the Management Board of Nokia Eesti, said that Nokia has decided to start cooperation with the concert hall since Nokia supports providing people with opportunities to experience and enjoy quality entertainment. “For me, quality entertainment is music and innovation in culture in a wider meaning. Nokia Concert Hall will be our contribution to implementing this philosophy in Estonia,” he said.

Aivar Sirelpuu said that the construction of such a large project started a little more than two years ago and the concert hall should open doors this October. The summer will be spent on finishing and interior works and the installation of high-tech stage, lighting and sound systems. The contractors are in perfectly in schedule and the advance sale of tickets to several events to be held in the autumn will start. “Next week we will start sale of tickets for the musicals of Vanemuise Theatre in the Nokia Concert House, including the premiere of Evita in November. Tickets to the performances of Old Baskin Theatre, Eifman Ballet Theatre, Dmitri Hvorostovski, Ivari Ilja and several other performances and concerts will also be available in near future. Contracts are being finalized with several prominent artists and we expect to soon report good news about the program of Nokia Concert Hall in the autumn and winter,” promised Sirelpuu.

Already this year the Solaris Centre and the Nokia Concert Hall will be hosting the Black Nights Film Festival. Of other major events booked for 2010 one could name the highlight of the European film industry – European Film Academy Awards – and a concert of New York Symphony Orchestra. There are also advance bookings for various concerts, theatrical performances and conferences for 2010-2012.

Solaris is a multifunctional culture, conference and entertainment centre all in one that in addition to the Nokia Concert Hall, seven-screen multiplex cinema, arts film centre with two screens and Estonia’s first Dance Academy will have an art gallery, several cafes, restaurants and shops. The centre will also have a 9,000 square metre underground parking lot for 260 cars. Nokia Concert Hall and the centre as a whole have been designed with the physically impaired in mind: two elevators as well as separate seats in the hall have all been specially adapted.