Moscow International House of Music, which is home to world famous Russian violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov's “Virtuosi of Moscow Chamber Orchestra", is one of the largest concert halls in the world. It is also the first concert hall for classical music built in the city of Moscow in the last 100 years. The building encompasses the 1,800 seat Grand Philharmonic Concert Hall, the 575 seat Chamber Music Concert Hall, a 532 seat multifunctional theatre hall, several rehearsal halls of various sizes, audio-visual recording studios, as well as restaurants, cafes, shops, administrative premises and a two story underground car park.
Following the award of a turnkey contract, the construction works had started in March 2001 and the project having a total construction area of 48,000 sqm had been completed by the end of 2002.
The main part of the Music House is a rounded spatial structure topped with a cupola; formed by an elegant blend of glass and stainless steel architectural elements and in the interior decoration of the building, wooden elements have been widely used to provide better acoustics. The structure houses two of the three concert halls disposed one on top of the other, each designed with separate entrances and lobbies. One of the rehearsal halls is large enough to accommodate a philharmonic orchestra and allows the highest quality of audio recording for the music performed. To this purpose, for protection from external vibrations, the concert and rehearsal halls have all been isolated from the ground by insertion of special vibro-insulator neoprene elements between the lower and upper parts of the load bearing structures.
The Music House first opened its doors to guests in December 2002. Since 2003 numerous Russian and world famous musicians, artists and orchestras have performed under the cupola of this magnificent Music House.