SolaFrame LED for Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw
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The historic venue installed eight of the silent, fan-less fixtures – customised in an off-white colour to blend in just below the ceiling – in its Main Hall (Grote Zaal). The venue uses them to generate general front light for orchestras, as well as specials for soloists, and for shining on private events such as receptions and dinners held in the hall.
Head of lighting, Alfons Hutschemaekers, says a lighting designer friend saw the SolaFrame Theatre fixture at a trade show and urged him to check it out. “The fact that the fixture is silent when it does not move is our first priority,” he notes.
After a demo at the AED Group, he says, the SolaFrame Theatre more than met their needs for quiet operation as well as useful effects such as a full shutter system, colour mixing, rotating and fixed gobos, iris, frost, prism and more.
“It generates high output and has enough features on board to satisfy our wishes,” he adds. “We have a 20m throw distance to the stage, so we are happy with the 7-42 degree zoom range,” says Hutschemaekers.
Hutschemaekers and his team installed the fixtures themselves, citing “no problems at all” with the HES fixtures since the eight units were put into play – four were installed a year ago and the rest six months later.
“Imagine - for the first time in the almost 130-year history of the Royal Concertgebouw building, we can use a silent, remote control high output fixture to light the stage,” he enthuses. “We are excited. We get positive comments from all our guest LDs and operators, too.”
(Jim Evans)
