Yann Jurkiewicz
Acoustician

Acoustical Consulting Experience

Prior to joining Kahle Acoustics, Yann Jurkiewicz briefly worked as an acoustic consultant for the Paris-based company Delphi and as an intern for Arup Acoustics in New York, as part of his final year project. In addition to the research studies he undertook there for his Master's thesis, he also collaborated on a feasibility study for the renovation of the Arlene Schnitzer Hall in Portland (home to the Oregon Symphony), and on preliminary studies for the construction of the Constellation Center, a new 4-hall performing arts center in Boston. This research consisted of an acoustic analysis of more than one hundred concert rooms renowned for their acoustic quality and the major role they played in the history of baroque music.

Kahle Acoustics Reference Projects

Yann Jurkiewicz joined Kahle Acoustics in 2006. He has been project manager for the Théâtre de l'Archipel in Perpignan (Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Métra & Associés, 2011), the renovation and transformation of the Square Conference Center in Brussels (A.2R.C Architectes, opened in 2009), the Théâtre du Nord in Lille (Blond & Roux Architectes), the transformation of Le Nouveau Siècle concert hall in Lille (Pierre Louis Carlier Architect, 2013) as well as Marciac concert hall (Atelier d'Architecture King Kong, 2011) which houses the yearly Jazz festival.

He has made significant contributions to the acoustic design of the Stavanger Konserthus, Norway (Medplan AS Arkitekter, 2012). Yann has also collaborated on the acoustic concept for the Auditorium de Bordeaux (4A Achitectes, 2013). He was also involved in the Philharmonie de Paris (2015).

Since 2014, Yann Jurkiewicz was on the full acoustic mission (from design to completion) of the renovation and transformation of the 17th-century Chapelle Corneille, Rouen, into a concert hall for chamber music and choral music (2016), and on the renovation of the national scene of Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône (2018), in France.

Yann Jurkiewicz at Le Nouveau Siècle, Lille.

In Switzerland, Yann completed the renovation of the opera Grand Théâtre de Genève (2019), including design and installation of acoustic reflectors for optimized projection from the stage and orchestra pit to the audience as well as the design and completed the renovation of the Alhambra a landmark concert hall also based in Geneva (2015), and lately completed the construction of the Nouvelle Comédie, a complex including a 500-seat proscenium theatre and a 400-seat black-box experimental theatre, and works on the new structure of the Théâtre of the City of Carouge. In France, Yann's missions range from leading the team on the train stations' modernization for the Grand Paris Express (Line 15), but also on the new acoustics of the Auditorium Ravel in Lyon and on the rehabilitation of the Théâtre Théo d'Argence (Lyon). He currently leads the acoustic mission to the client for the Cité du Théâtre, Paris.

In Brussels, Belgium, he supervises the rehabilitation of the former Brussels' stock exchange into a beer-dedicated museum. In Oslo, Norway, he works on the rehabilitation of Nationaltheatret, and in Trondheim works on the new Olavshallen concert hall.