Defining Spaces for Expression
in the 21st Century
ALBAN BASSUET
Defining Spaces for Expression
in the 21st Century
"One of the best hall in Switzerland, maybe Europe"
Cecilia Bartoli and Maxim Vengerov, February 2018 - GoOut
“Judging by a recent performance with piano accompaniment of Cellia Costea’s “Vissi d’Arte” from Tosca, the theater’s acoustics are excellent. RPBW’s first opera house design promises to be a smashing success.”
Victoria Newhouse – Architectural Record September 2016
"The acoustics, and much of everything else at Tippet Rise, were masterminded by director and conjuror-in-chief Alban Bassuet, who channelled the Halsteads’ fantasies into wood, gravel, pipes and power. They wanted rolling hills; he looped the roads around them. They wanted the ideal venue for chamber music; he started with the dimensions of the music room at Esterhazy, the palace in rural Hungary where Haydn spent much of his career. They wanted big sculptures; he made sure they could be built."
Ariella Budick - Financial Times
"The Olivier Music Barn is a masterpiece of understatement – warm, reverberant and luminous – providing ideal acoustics for performers as well as an audience."
Michael Webb - MARK magazine September 2016