Jack Singer Concert Hall Seating chart

Jack Singer Concert Hall is the largest venue of the EPCOR Centre of Performing Arts. It is a multiple venue arts centre in Canada located in Olympic Plaza Cultural District in downtown Calgary, Alberta. The hall is home to the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as well as EPCOR Centre’s own BD&P World Music Series. The Concert Hall is reputed to host some of world’s finest musical shows and has often been described as being one among the most beautiful, acoustically appreciated venues of North America. Jack Singer hosts various performances throughout the year through rentals to the community as well as outside promoters. Jack Singer Concert Hall tickets can promise a time of pure entertainment for Alberta’s music fans.

The EPCOR Centre has been newly created and officially opened in September 1985, by which time it was called the Premier for Alberta Peter Lougheed. In May 2001, following a donation made by EPCOR which is an Edmonton, Alberta-based company, the centre’s name was changed to EPCOR Centre for Performing Arts. The Centre’s building now covers a full city block, and a six level complex that measures more than four-hundred thousand square feet, and is one of the largest art centre of Canada. It offers different types of performance spaces alongside which it houses theatre workshops, rehearsal halls, offices, a café, meeting rooms, salon spa, radio station, and a gift store offering arts works of the community.

Nearly four-hundred people go to the more than eighteen hundred events and performances held at the EPCOR Centre every year. These events include some of the most exciting children’s events, spoken word and readings, dance, live theatre, experimental theatre, public forums, training sessions, weddings, meetings, sporting events, arts education activities, award ceremonies as well as concerts of various genres like jazz, symphonic music, rock, blues, world and folk. This Centre for Performing Arts offers many types of music programming, movies and art education. These programs feature shows by the BD&P World Music Series, Arts Learning Projects and Movies That Matter, Carma Acoustic Blues Series, Theatre School, Evening Arts Studios, and One Day Arts School.

Jack Singer Concert Hall has up to eighteen hundred seats and is said to synthesize the qualities of the best concert halls worldwide such as Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Symphony Hall in Boston and Musikverein in Vienna. Above its vast stage is suspended a fascinating spruce-wood laminated acoustical canopy weighing just over a hundred and eighty-five thousand pounds. This canopy can be lowered or raised so that the hall may be tuned according to each performance’s specific requirements.  Named after Jack Singer, the concert hall has been the permanent home venue to Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra that employs more than six thousand Carthy Organ and up to sixty-five full-time musicians. If you’re looking to be part of a magnificent musical evening in the presence of the world’s finest artists, then Jack Singer Concert Hall tickets just might the perfect treat for you.