The Bavarian Academy of Music (Bayerische Musikakademie) is part of the Bavarian Music Council (Bayerischer Musikrat), which represents and supports musicians and musical activities across Bavaria.
The main purpose of the new lighting is to provide the Hall's orchestra with smooth even white light illumination with a requirement that all luminaires be noiseless to avoid interfering with the artists.
In fall 2013, Benjamin Sonderwald of Pro Lighting E.K. of Aschheim, near Munich, was contacted by Johann Schmid, lighting technician at the Bavarian Music Council. "He was looking for a good solution to replace their existing tungsten system with LED lighting," Sonderwald explains. "Since I am a lighting professional and know the requirements of a lighting system on a big stage, I immediately thought of Elation luminaires."
Sonderwald then worked together with Elation lighting expert Harry de Lon on a lighting concept for the Hall, a design that was eventually chosen from several other proposals. The concept included 20 Elation TVL 3000 II DW and 8 Elation TVL F1WW white light luminaires for the Hall's 11m wide stage, which is used for a variety of training and live performances from solo concerts to large-scale symphonic orchestras up to 100 musicians.
After testing of the Elation equipment, venue technicians and Pro Lighting came to the conclusion that the TVL 3000 II DW was the right choice to give the desired white look on the orchestra. The TVL 3000 fixtures, positioned in rows above the stage, feature 12 warm white and 12 cool white LEDs along with adjustable barn doors and draw a low 72W of power. The 100W TVL F1WW LED Fresnels project evenly balanced warm white light from positions at the front of the orchestra. Their 12-40° zoom range works optimally from that position and their thermo-optical cooling technology keeps them from overheating without making a sound. Also barn door equipped, max power consumption is only 141W.
"Apart from the clear requirement to achieve better illumination of the stage, the lights had to be completely silent because the microphones used to record the performances are mounted on the ceiling next to the fixtures," explains Benjamin Sonderwald. "It was also important to achieve a good illumination of the stage from above because the musicians need that in order to read their notes. The space over the stage was very confined so the only solution was the TVL 3000."
(Jim Evans)
