St David's Hall

We love to see your Tweets and facebook comments and it's great that you want to tell people what a good time you're having. For the comfort of other audience members however, please restrict the use of mobile phone and internet devices to the interval or before and after the concert. All mobile phones and other devices should be switched off durin... g the performance itself. Situated in the heart of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, St David's Hall is the National Concert Hall and Conference Centre of Wales. With its wide range of live entertainment, conferences, participation workshops, two bars and a Gin Lounge, helpful staff and relaxing surroundings, St David's Hall is a building to be enjoyed throughout the year. Home to the annual Welsh Proms Cardiff, the world-class Orchestral Concert Series featuring the world's top orchestras, soloists and conductors and the famous bi-annual BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, St David's Hall presents a multitude of live entertainment, including: However, St David's Hall is more than just a concert hall, with spacious foyers, lounge bars and coffee shop (check for opening hours). For architects Seymour Harris Partnership, designing St Davids Hall was an unusual, if not unique, commission for several reasons. The primary challenge was how to provide a major 2,000-seat concert hall in the cramped space available and to complicate this issue, the building had to be fitted into an existing planned, and partly built, shopping centre. The result was that, in an incredible five years from conception to completion, an impressive 2,000-seat concert hall, with arguably the best acoustics in Europe was built directly over the St Davids Centre shopping mall. In addition, the building has offices, comprehensive dressing rooms, meeting rooms and conference facilities. The autumn of 1982 saw exciting days at the new St Davids Hall. The special open day on 30 August 1982 attracted 21,000 people; nine days later came the first public concert, a free open rehearsal by the ...Read More