Walt Disney Concert Hall is a part of The Music Center.

Articles lost or found will be held by the head ushers at Walt Disney Concert Hall until the end of a performance.  Afterward, please contact the main security desk at the Artists Entrance of The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion at 213.972.7406.

Free self-guided audio tours of Walt Disney Concert Hall are offered by the Music Center most days. All tours are an hour long and begin in the Grand Avenue Lobby of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Start times vary, so please check the tour schedule.

Guided Tours are offered to our LA Phil Insider's. Look for the sign that reads "LA Phil Insiders' Tour" in the Grand Avenue lobby. Show your concert tickets for that day's performance for admission to the tour.

Walt Disney Concert Hall is located at 111 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012.  For directions, information about rideshare and drop-off, and public transportation, please visit https://www.laphil.com/visit/getting-here.

Visit https://www.laphil.com/visit/getting-here for more information about on-site parking and other transportation options.

Parking is available directly beneath Walt Disney Concert Hall. Enter on Second Street or Lower Grand Avenue.

• Operating hours: Monday-Friday: 6am-12am and Saturday-Sunday: 7am-12am
• Regular parking costs $10 beginning at 4:30pm for evening concerts and two hours before weekday matinees

Accessible Parking
Accessible parking spaces for vehicles displaying valid, state-issued disability parking placards or license plates are reserved near the elevators on each level.

Valet Parking
Valet parking is available for $23 at the Hope Street entrance beginning at two hours before concert start time.

Founders parking entrance opens two and a half hours before concert start time.

We recommend arriving 60 minutes prior to the concert start time in order to park and find your seat before the concert begins. If you are unexpectedly delayed, in consideration of our artists and patrons in the hall, late seating will take place during the first appropriate pause in the program, at the discretion of management. Certain programs are performed without intermission; therefore, no late seating can be offered at those concerts. For the convenience of latecomers, the performance in progress may be viewed and heard on monitors in the lobby.

If you leave the hall for any reason, you will not be allowed to retake your seat until an appropriate break in the music.

During Upbeat Live, our pre-concert conversations, key thinkers and guest musicians – including members of the LA Phil – share their expertise and offer historical and cultural context for your program’s pieces, giving you a deeper understanding of the music.  Upbeat live occurs in BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall or the main auditorium for Friday matinees.  These talks are free for ticketholders and last about 1 hour.  They start 1 hour before the concert and at 9:45am for Friday matinees. 

Can't join us in-person for the event? Check out the UpBeat Live Podcast. New episodes are added after the first night’s concert. See the full Upbeat Live schedule at: laphil.com/ubl.

Parking may be purchased on-site upon entrance. Cash and credit cards are accepted for on-site parking.

Accessible Parking
Accessible parking spaces for vehicles displaying valid, state-issued disability parking placards or license plates are reserved near the elevators on each level.

Most concerts are 2-2.5 hours, which typically includes a 20-minute intermission. 

Come early for Upbeat Live, the Philharmonic's free pre-concert event where you can learn about the music on your program. This series is offered for most LA Phil performances and starts one hour prior to performance time.

If you're planning a visit to Walt Disney Concert Hall and wondering what to wear, you’re not alone! While concert halls might conjure visions of people in tuxedos and stiff gowns, there is no formal dress code here. Attending a concert should be about enjoying the music, not worrying about how you look. Read our guide on What to Wear to help you feel confident about your visit.

Although no special knowledge or experience is needed to enjoy an orchestral concert, certain practices have become customary:

• After the orchestra is seated, the first person to come onstage is the concertmaster (the lead first violinist), who is greeted with applause and then initiates the tuning process. Next comes the conductor (with or without soloist), who is again greeted with applause. Once the conductor has bowed and turned towards the orchestra, everyone becomes quiet so the music can begin.
• Silence is the canvas on which music is experienced, so for maximum concentration and enjoyment, the audience should be as quiet as possible. In the sensitive acoustics of Walt Disney Concert Hall, even the slightest noise can be a significant distraction. What would normally go unheard in daily life (whispering, humming, tapping, turning pages, etc.) is noticed by everyone around you. Mobile phones and all other electronic devices must be silenced before the performance begins.

When should I applaud? This has been the subject of much debate. The tradition for the last hundred years or so has been to clap only at the very end of a piece, no matter how many individual movements there are. In a recital, the custom is to applaud after a group of pieces, as indicated in the program. The purpose of waiting is to maintain an unbroken atmosphere so that the piece retains its unity and that any spell the music has cast remains unbroken. But in earlier times, it was not unusual for the audience to respond with spontaneous applause, sometimes even insisting that a movement be repeated before a piece could continue. Today, as more music lovers attend classical programs for the first time, enthusiastic applause does occasionally break out between movements. If you are worried about when to applaud, the safest course is to wait until the conductor has turned around to face the audience and everyone is clapping.

The term "classical music" can be used in two ways. When it's capitalized, it's usually referring to a historical period (c. 1730-1820), the time of Mozart and Haydn. The other meaning of "classical music" is much broader, covering the entire canon of Western art music, from Gregorian chant to Philip Glass and beyond. It encompasses a vast range of styles, forms and techniques, but in one respect, classical music differs from other types by its use of music notation, which is used by composers to indicate the pitch, speed, meter, rhythms and overall execution of the music. From the simplest song to massive compositions of mind-bending complexity, classical music often attempts to affect the mind, body and spirit in profound ways; the greatest examples succeed in doing just that.

A symphony orchestra is a large ensemble of musicians who variously play strings (violins, violas, cellos, basses), woodwinds (clarinets, oboes, flutes, bassoons), brass (trumpets, French horns, trombones and tubas) or percussion (drums, timpani, bells, etc.). Because of its size (100 or more musicians), an orchestra requires a conductor to keep the players together and present a unified interpretation. Compositions for the orchestra include such works as symphonies and concertos (for soloist and orchestra). Classical music is also written for, and performed by, smaller groups of instruments ("chamber music") or even by just one or two musicians ("solo recital").