Pyatt Hall at the VSO School of Music

I would never have known about this jewel concert theatre had I not attended the most magical «Vino & Forte» performance by Orianna White and Ivan Tucakov last night.
The venue is exquisite. Once in the glass doors off the street, ascend the staircase to the spacious and comfortable landing on the second floor. There’s a wine bar counter and ledges to set your wine glass during the reception between performance sets. All is in cool grey and natural wood and black granite, perfectly appointed.
The theatre itself seats about 120 in «theatre» format with the stage large enough for a grand piano and the highest of hi-​tech precision sound balancing beams of wood all around the room allowing for configuration of the beams to provide ultimate acoustic experience for various types of performances.
It’s a very intimate venue and the plush red covered theatre seating and chairs are high quality and very comfortable for the one, two or three hours of sitting during recitals and performances.
Apparently, the theatre is multi-​functional, whereby the floor can be configured with theatre seats, or chairs in different arrangements, and allowing for many different configurations.
The performance we saw last night was AMAZING. I highly recommend following Ivan Tucakov (
). In this show, Ivan brought his guitar genius and sounds of eastern and western Europe (Spanish, variations of Flemenco, Fado… fused with Balkan traditional sounds and beats) and blended playfully in a duet with traditional and classically trained Orianna White on piano. The interplay was moving to say the least, and the overall performance was pure MAGIC.
The performance was greatly enhanced by the venue where, during intermission, we sampled wines brought in especially for the performance and lingered and mingled with friends and the performers.