Concerts

Main Auditorium

The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall's Main Auditorium is a hall of truly symphonic proportions, seating up to 2000 patrons. Our seating is comfortable with plenty of legroom allowing your audiences to sit back, relax and enjoy your concert. Seating in the arena section can be removed to create a promenade-style standing area for 700. The flexibility of the front of house seating arrangements also extends to the stage, which boasts a state of the art computer-controlled system of 10 independently motored lifts, giving up to 20 stage configurations, allowing the Auditorium to accommodate everything from a solo recital to the largest symphony orchestra and chorus.

The Main Auditorium is one of the most technically and acoustically advanced concert halls in the UK. The Hall was specifically designed with great acoustics in mind, particularly as this would be the auditorium to replace the world-renowned acoustics of the much loved St Andrew's Halls, which were destroyed by fire in 1962. Not only does the Hall boast great natural acoustics, but our custom designed sound system also allows your concert to be amplified (where appropriate) in a professional manner. Our state of the art lighting rig also enables the stage to be lit as extravagantly (or as subtly!) as you wish to complement the music.

As Scotland's premier concert venue, we have hosted many of the world's greatest performing artists from the worlds of classical music, comedy, rock and pop.

Backstage facilities are spacious with four principal dressing rooms (Lomond, Morar, Tay and Ness) on level 1 to the rear of the stage. All the principal dressing rooms have en-suite shower-room facilities and the largest of these principal dressing rooms (Lomond) has an adjoining warm-up room with a 5' Boston grand piano.

Level 0 (at stage door) houses the largest of the communal dressing rooms with Dressing Room 1 usually being used for catering (a kitchen is made available to visiting companies on this level), and Dressing Rooms 2 and 3 used for the ladies and the gentlemen of the orchestra respectively. Level 2 has a further three mid-sized dressing rooms (usually used for the chorus as this level leads into the choir stalls) and one smaller dressing room.