We are Classical

Simon Reinink has been the director of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam for 13 years, a role he took on after a career in law. We asked him about his goals as director, the challenges a 130 year old hall presents and how he works to make the Concertgebouw relevant to as diverse an audience as possible.

It all began in 1883 with construction in what was then a pasture in the city’s outskirts. More than two thousand 12-metre long piles were sunk into the moist Dutch soil in order to support what would become Amsterdam’s main concert hall, known today as The Royal Concertgebouw.