Heinz Hall For the Performing Arts

Pittsburgh, United States

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Heinz Hall, dedicated in 1971 and renovated in 1995, is the cornerstone of the Cultural District of Pittsburgh. With its international reputation for grandeur and excellence as a concert hall and showplace, it is home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

History

Established in 1896.

For more than 100 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been an essential part of Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape. The PSO prides itself in artistic excellence, a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, a strong commitment to the Pittsburgh region, and the cultivation of its family of constituents and households.

At home in historic Heinz Hall, the Pittsburgh Symphony… Orchestra offers sought-​after subscription concerts including 22 weeks of classical concerts annually, a Pops series of seven weekends, and the Fiddlesticks Family Concert series featuring the feline «Ambassador to Children.» Numerous community engagement and partnership concerts are performed throughout Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland. The PSO also performs free, educational concerts in Heinz Hall for students, and summer concerts in Allegheny County parks.

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Manfred Honeck, Music Director.

Manfred Honeck was born in Austria and studied music at the Academy of Music in Vienna. An accomplished violinist and violist, he spent more than ten years as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. It is this experience that has heavily influenced his conducting and has helped give it a distinctive stamp.

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