Anne Minors Performance Consultants Teams Up with Sound Space Design

	Anne Minors and Bob Essert, Sound Space Vision

UK-based award-winning acoustics and theatre consultants, Sound Space Design and Anne Minors Performance Consultants have combined to form Sound Space Vision. The move formalizes their long-standing working relationship and will continue to build on their success in performance, education, and assembly spaces, as well as broadening their reach within the built environment.

Sound Space Vision enhances the rapport between performers and audiences, combining excellent spatial and technical design by AMPC with superb acoustics from SSD. Popular with audiences and operators, their performance environments are held in high esteem by artists. The creative, dynamic team includes specialists in acoustics, lighting, sound, stage engineering, and audio-visual design to provide a complete acoustics and theatre consultancy service that touches all the senses.

Anne Minors Performance Consultants was founded in 1996, and Bob Essert established Sound Space Design in 2002. Together the companies have delivered over 100 performing arts spaces.

AMPC was performance consultants for The Royal Opera House redevelopment, Barbican Theatre BITE Festival, Wigmore Hall, Roundhouse, BT Center, and Godolphin and Latymer School in London. Zorlu Cultural Center, Istanbul and Palace of Peace Opera House in Astana, Kazakhstan. Theatres include Hull Truck, The Egg, Bath Theatre Royal, E15 Acting School, Princess Royal Performing Arts Center, and New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.

SSD was design acousticians on La Maison Symphonique in Montreal, Toronto Four Seasons Opera House, Dallas Winspear Opera House, Lyric Theatre Belfast, and Xiqu Center for Chinese Opera in Hong Kong as well as numerous school music and theatre buildings.

AMPC and SSD have collaborated on a string of projects including Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Trinity St Paul's Church for Tafelmusik in Toronto; Zorlu Cultural Center, Istanbul; Palace of Peace Opera House, Astana; Annette Strauss Square, Dallas; King Edward's School, Birmingham; Garsington Opera Pavilion; Attenborough Center for Creative Arts, University of Sussex; Menuhin Hall, Surrey; Royal Academy of Arts; Institute of Engineering and Technology; Friends House in London; and St Peter's Ancoats for the Halle in Manchester.

Founders Anne Minors and Essert have each been designing and delivering world class performing arts spaces for over 30 years across five continents. Minors worked on the auditorium designs for Glyndebourne Opera House, Los Angeles Walt Disney Concert Hall, Singapore Esplanade Concert Hall, Vancouver Chan Center, and Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts while head of design at Theatre Projects between 1984 and 1995. Essert was at Artec New York for 16 years where he was director of acoustics and deputy chairman, followed by five years at Arup Acoustics as associate director and leader of concert halls. Past projects include: Lucerne Culture and Congress Center, Singapore Esplanade, Birmingham CBSO Center, Vancouver Chan Center, Florida Kravis Center, Sage Gateshead, Hackney Empire Theatre renovation, Glasgow City Halls redevelopment, Belfast Sonic Arts Center and Dublin Helix.

On the joining of the two firms director Essert is enthusiastic for the future: "We have been collaborating for several years, but now the synergy shared by the two companies creates a unified whole greater than the sum of the parts."

Minors, principal designer adds, "There is an opportunity here to expand our remit in several areas, using our collective experience to add greater value and excellence for our clients."

Contact: Mike Elliott, +44 (0)208 877 5860 or info@soundspacevision.com.

AMPC projects will continue to be represented at www.ampcstudio.com.