Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra of world standing and one of the leading orchestras in the Asia-Pacific region. The Sydney Symphony performs approximately 150 concerts each year to an annual audience of more than 350,000. The Orchestra not only performs core symphonic repertoire but engages in collaborations with other art forms and commissions new works by Australian and international composers to ensure the vibrancy of orchestral music for generations to come.
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One musician is capable of so much. But an orchestra – with 80, 90, 100 musicians striving and urging and pushing as one – sounds like so much more. It sounds like power. Like inspiration. It is a sound that surrounds you, lifts you and stays with you.
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