Japanese Yasuhisa Toyota will work over new concert hall in Ufa

UFA, 8 August 2018. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. A well-known Japanese engineer, an expert in acoustics will participate in the work on a new concert hall in Ufa. The Head of Bashkortostan Rustem Khamitov informed about this during a meeting with Tokuro Furuya, Plenipotentiary Minister of the Embassy of Japan in Russia.

"Just a few days ago our delegation was in Japan. We met with the well-known specialist in the design of concert halls - Mr. Yasuhisa Toyota. He agreed to work in Ufa. We have a plan for the construction of a new large concert hall, and Mr. Toyota promised to help us in this work", said Rustem Khamitov.

Yasuhisa Toyota is an expert in acoustics. He is engaged in the development of acoustic systems of concert halls. Among his works are the acoustics of the House of Music in Helsinki, the Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg, Santor Hall in Minato, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University, and the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall in St. Petersburg. Earlier it became known that Toyota will design a concert hall in Sochi, which is planned to be opened at the "Sirius" center in 2020.