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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra


Contact	Name: Simon Taylor Role: Chief Executive Work Telephone: (01202) 670611
Address	2 Seldown Lane, Poole, Dorset
Postcode	BH15 1UF View Map (opens a new window)
Website	www.bsolive.com (opens a new window)
Partner Type	Heritage, Culture & Arts •
Life Events	New to the Area • Leisure
Contribution to Partnership	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 and Marin Alsop. Dynamic young Ukrainian, Kirill Karabits takes up the position in 2009. 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 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. The BSO is dedicated to providing orchestral music across the South and West of England. Each year the BSO gives upwards of 130 concerts and also performs a series of outdoor classical firework spectaculars at some of the most important stately homes in the UK. 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.