Sydney Symphony Orchestra

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO ), also called simply the Sydney Symphony, is a symphony orchestra based in the concert hall of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Symphony is the largest orchestra of Australia and one of the leaders in the Asia -Pacific region.

The orchestra was founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting as National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra. Already in the 1930s it was led by conductors such as Antal Dorati and Thomas Beecham. 1946 the orchestra received its present name. First chief conductor Eugene Goossens in 1947. Goossens made ​​an important for the performance of contemporary music, but also for the construction of a concert and opera house ( the future Sydney Opera House).

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra plays each year for around 350,000 listeners (even in open-air concerts ). It meets weekly on together with major international conductors and soloists at the Sydney Opera House and is among other things for the performance of contemporary Australian composers. International tours have taken the orchestra to Europe (1965, 1974, 1995, 2008, 2010 ), the USA (1988, 1998) and to Japan (1996, 2006, 2011), South Korea, China, Taiwan and Malaysia.

Since 2009 Vladimir Ashkenazy is chief conductor. From 2014 David Robertson will follow him as chief conductor.

Among the most important former chief conductor Eugene Goossens include, inter alia, (1947-1956), Willem van Otterloo (1971-1978), Charles Mackerras (1982-1985), Edo de Waart (1993-2003) and Gianluigi Gelmetti (2004-2008).

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