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Updating the Facilities

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With practical experience, there was a need to upgrade facilities and correct deficiencies.

Modernisering av lokalerna

” The Sibelius Academy is given new space”

  • Hufvudstadsbladet 17 September 1963

The organs planned for the concert hall had not been acquired due to lack of funds. After the funding was found, Gebrüder Rieger, a Czechoslovakian organ manufacturer, built a 55 stop electro-pneumatic concert organ into the concert hall in 1939. The original ceiling structure of the stage behind which the mouldings were originally planned was dismantled and left visible. The organ façade became the very symbol of the concert hall.

On the fifth floor, a club room was located, but the three-part hall was soon taken into use by the library after the building was completed. After some practical experience, some shortcomings needed to be improved. The concert hall was leased by Svenska Teatern, which is why floodlights and a curtain were installed in the hall in 1935. In the summer of 1937, the stage was enlarged, after which ‘it now conveniently fits a large orchestra with soloists.’

Sibelius Academy Library 1961. Librarian Helvi Leiviskä's company includes students Tuula Hirvenoja and Risto Hurskainen.
Sibelius Academy Library 1961. Librarian Helvi Leiviskä’s company includes students Tuula Hirvenoja and Risto Hurskainen. University of the Arts Helsinki / Sibelius Academy archive.

In 1950, in addition to some small painting and other restoration work, the organs in the concert hall were thoroughly repaired. In the 1950s, the need for additional facilities also emerged. In 1958, three corridors to the windows were closed to create a few more rehearsal rooms.

The need for additional facilities was not due to the increased number of students but to the increase in the number of lessons. In 1961, an additional building for rehearsal rooms was built in the courtyard, above the entrance and passage hall. The high rehearsal hall was divided into two floors. Various other changes were made in the facilities, and facilities were also built in the attic for instrument storage, notes and storage. The organs in the concert hall were removed, but the organ façade was left in place.

On 28 March 1963, the Board of Trustees of the Sibelius Academy Foundation discussed the expansion and modification work to be presented to the annual meeting of the Board of Directors. Architect Veikko Malmio had been invited to the meeting to present his plans for the renovation.
On 28 March 1963, the Board of Trustees of the Sibelius Academy Foundation discussed the expansion and modification work to be presented to the annual meeting of the Board of Directors. Architect Veikko Malmio had been invited to the meeting to present his plans for the renovation. University of the Arts Helsinki / Sibelius Academy archive.

The space was overcrowded for a long time, and during the 1960s there were also discussions about moving the entire Academy from the city centre to new premises. In 1964, the Sibelius Academy inquired about a vacant apartment in the neighbouring residential building on Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu street to use as a lecture hall, and in the late 1970s, one shareholder in the same building offered to sell three apartments for example for the use of the Academy’s library. The negotiations were unsuccessful. In 1974, the Sibelius Academy also showed interest in the adjacent building owned by the Association of Finnish Cities in order to obtain additional facilities. The cramped conditions were alleviated by the additional facilities completed in Pitäjänmäki in the early 1990s.

Waiting for their turn in the second floor training rooms, which were built on top of the cloakroom lobby in accordance with Veikko Malmio's drawings in the 1963 renovation of the concert hall.
Waiting for their turn in the second floor training rooms, which were built on top of the cloakroom lobby in accordance with Veikko Malmio’s drawings in the 1963 renovation of the concert hall. Currently they are replaced by a chamber music hall. Photographer Heikki Valkonen.
In 1963, a floor for additional facilities was added to the original training room. In the renovation of the early 1990s, the floor was dismantled and the hall was returned to its original height.
In 1963, a floor for additional facilities was added to the original rehearsal hall. In the renovation of the early 1990s, the floor was dismantled and the hall was returned to its original height. University of the Arts Helsinki / Sibelius Academy archive. The photographer Volker von Bonin.
A view from the stairs to the sheet music collection above the 5th floor in 1978. In the 1963 renovation, desperately needed extra rooms were built on the attic floor.
A view from the stairs to the sheet music collection above the 5th floor in 1978. In the 1963 renovation, desperately needed extra rooms were built on the attic floor. Photographer Heikki Valkonen.
The student’s union room in 1978. The space next to the entrance was first leased by Fazer's Music Store and later by M. & K. Fagerholm Driving School.
The student’s union room in 1978. The space next to the entrance was first leased by Fazer’s Music Store and later by M. & K. Fagerholm Driving School. In the early 1960s, it was made available to students. At the beginning, the students were served by a café held by Nina Åberg, but the café operations became unnecessary as the licensed restaurant on the other side of the entrance became less formal. Photographer Heikki Valkonen.

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