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Spīķeri Concert Hall
Spīķeri Concert Hall is a home for music, and a place for various artistic ideas to be born. This is a stage for contemporary sound art projects, art experiments and concerts of all kinds of music, as well as a venue for concert lectures and programmes for children and youth, and educational programmes for professional musicians.
The building hosts the Sinfonietta Rīga chamber orchestra, founded in 2006 (Artistic Director Normunds Šnē), and the Latvian Radio Choir, founded in 1940 and led by Sigvards Kļava and Kaspars Putniņš. The first floor of the Concert Hall holds the Latvian Music Information Centre and the record studio "Framest Studio".
Since its opening, the Spīķeri Concert Hall has held stylistically varied concerts, movie screenings, events for children, award ceremonies, conferences and business events. The cosy, modern space with a historical atmosphere has become a very popular venue.
The Concert Hall is located in the Spīķeri creative district, which is gradually being transformed into contemporary, modern and publicly accessible city environment. Spīķeri is and will remain the home base for creative cultural organisations, contemporary music and cinema events, art galleries, offices, cosy restaurants and cafes.
The Spīķeri district is a building complex surrounded by Maskavas, Turgēņeva and Krasta Streets, plus the Spīķeri embankment from the Railway Bridge to the Salu Bridge. The city block was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997.
The Spīķeri warehouses are undergoing gradual renovation with support from the Spīķeri general partnership, Riga City Council, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Culture, and NGOs; the restoration work is to be finished in 1212.
The Spīķeri district was developed according to designs by architects Karl Felsko, Friedrich Hess, Robert Pflug, Reinhold Schmaeling and Jānis Baumanis. 58 warehouses were built here between 1864 and 1886; today only 13 of them have been preserved.
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