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address:2175 North Sixth Avenue Tucson, AZ 85705 phone:520-792-9155 website:Tucson Symphony Orchestra

About the Tucson Symphony Orchestra

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra, now in its 79th season, serves Tucson and southern Arizona communities with performances and orchestral music education programs of the highest caliber. The concert season extends from September through May with more than 90 orchestra and 350 chamber ensemble performances each year in Tucson and Southern Arizona.

In 1928, in the law offices of Harry Juliani, a small group of civic leaders and music lovers met to select musicians, elect a conductor and discuss programming. The Tucson Symphony Orchestra is now the oldest symphony orchestra in the Southwest and the oldest continuously performing professional arts organization in Arizona. The Orchestra’s first performance, on January 13, 1929, took place in the Tucson High School Auditorium. Tucson was a city of 45,000 residents then. Today the population of greater Tucson is over one million and the TSO is comprised entirely of professional musicians, administered by professional staff and governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees.

The passion of those founders to share performances of great symphonic music remains at the core of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s mission. In addition, the development of a vast array of orchestral music education programs and broad service through community partnerships now extends the reach of the TSO to every corner of Tucson and the surrounding region.

Each concert season offers nine Classic Series programs, four MasterWorks Chamber Orchestra Series programs, five TSO Pops! Series programs, Classic, MasterWorks and TSO Pops! Specials, four Chamber Ensemble Series performances, four Moveable Musical Feasts and a series of free chamber ensemble performances for families entitled Just for Kids.

Equally vital to our community’s cultural fabric are the over 400 education and community partnership presentations provided by the TSO annually, which reach more than 125,000 children and adults. The TSO provides the most in-depth music education programs for children in all of Arizona, including in-school TSO ensemble programs and comprehensive curriculum, as well as the annual KinderKonzerts, Young People’s Concerts, Young Artists Competition and Young Composers Project.

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s excellence has been recognized by a number of prestigious awards in recent years. In 2003, the TSO was recognized nationally as a recipient of the first American Symphony Orchestra League Bank of America Award for Excellence in Orchestra Education. In 2004, the TSO received the Governor’s Arts Award recognizing its 75 years of significant community impact. In 2006, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano nominated the TSO in the Artistic Production category of the National Governors Association Distinguished Service to State Government Award, her only such nomination. In 2007, TSO was selected, as the only orchestra among 300 arts and education institutions considered, to be one of twelve institutions included in an Americans for the Arts research project conducted by the Carnegie Mellon Foundation. Along with the Guggenheim Museum, the American Ballet Theatre and the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, TSO’s education programs will be analyzed and presented as a national model of best practice.