Hult Center for the Performing Arts

The Hult Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Hardy Holtzman Pfeiffer Associates with Theater Consultant, Robert Davis, opened in 1982. The Hult Center serves local performing arts organizations and presents high-quality performing arts tours to the community of Eugene, Oregon.

This performing arts center has two world-class concert halls that book performances year around. The Silva Concert Hall, which is home to the Eugene Symphony, seats 2,500 patrons. The more intimate Soreng Theater seats 500 people. Stagecraft provided the counter-weight rigging system and stage draperies for both theaters.

Two Oregon artists, who won Eugene’s city-sponsored design competition, created the concept for the Silva Concert Hall’s custom front curtain. These artists were hired by Stagecraft to hand batik the raw fabric panels prior to Stagecraft’s assembly of the front curtain. After assembly, crystal baguettes were added to the curtain as raindrops.