The Pierre Boulez Saal was designed by architect Frank Gehry and acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota and opened in March 2017; the upcoming season marks the hall’s tenth anniversary. Together with the Barenboim-Said Akademie, it is housed in a former set storage building of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. An ellipse-shaped, modular space in which sound and architecture blend in a unique way, the concert hall in the heart of Berlin offers almost unlimited possibilities to experience music—from solo works to chamber music in all its forms to orchestral repertoire, from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras to 20th-century classics and world premieres. The idea of “Music for the Thinking Ear” serves as a motto, inspired by the artistic curiosity of Pierre Boulez. It is most directly expressed in the concerts of the Boulez Ensemble, which was founded by Daniel Barenboim. In addition to chamber music from the 18th to the 21st centuries, music from the Middle East and Northern Africa as well as jazz form major parts of the program.