Finnish: Helsingin musiikkitalo
Swedish: Musikhuset i Helsingfors

Type Concert Hall
Location Helsinki, Finland
Address Mannerheimintie / Eero Erkonkatu 1

Construction started October 22, 2008
Completed (and tested) April 2011

Technical details
Floor area 36,000 m2 (390,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Client Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sibelius Academy
Owner Senate Properties, City of Helsinki, Yleisradio.
Architect Marko Kivistö, Ola Laiho and Mikko Pulkkinen
Main contractor SRV

The Helsinki Music Centre is a concert hall and a music centre in 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 prestigious site 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 audience sits around the orchestra, not only in front of it as usual. The acoustics are splendid.

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.

Opened in August 2011.

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