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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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All children under 18 can come to any BSO concert for Ł1. The BSO covers over 10,000 sq. miles of the UK giving its concerts across the South & South West.

About the Member

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1893. Throughout its illustrious history the Orchestra has worked with some of the finest composers, conductors and musicians in the world including Elgar, Sibelius, Holst, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams and Sir Thomas Beecham to name but a few. More recently the BSO has worked with eminent British composers including Sir Michael Tippett, Sir John Tavener and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

Principal conductors since Sir Dan Godfrey, who founded the Orchestra, have included Sir Charles Groves, Constantin Silvestri, Paavo Berglund, Andrew Litton, Marin Alsop and now the dynamic young Ukrainian, Kirill Karabits.

The BSO has toured worldwide, performing in top venues including Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Vienna; Rudolfinum, Prague; and Philharmonie, Berlin; as well as regular UK appearances at Royal Festival Hall, Barbican and Royal Albert Hall, London; Symphony Hall, Birmingham and Bridgwater Hall, Manchester. Other foreign tours have included trips to Finland, Hong Kong, France, Poland and Spain.

The name of the BSO is known across the world through over 300 recordings. Previous successful CDs have been nominated for Gramophone Awards and Grammys in the US. The recording of the Elgar’s Symphony No.3 remained in the top ten classical charts for the entire year. The Orchestra continues to release five or six CDs a year, recently with works by Bernstein, Bartók, Sibelius, Glass, Orff and Stanford, making it one of the most recorded orchestras in Britain today.

In addition to its recording and international touring commitments, the BSO is dedicated to providing orchestral music across the South and West of England. Each year the BSO gives upwards of 130 concerts from its home base at Lighthouse, Poole to Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southampton, Weymouth, Exeter, Bristol, Basingstoke and Winchester. It also performs a series of outdoor classical firework spectaculars at some of the most important stately homes in the UK including Wilton House, home of the Earl of Pembroke, Broadlands, the former home of Lord Mountbatten and Osborne House, favourite residence of Queen Victoria. A continued partnership with BBC Radio 3 also gives audiences across the UK the chance to hear the BSO through numerous radio broadcasts each year.

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