The
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an English orchestra with a remit to serve the South and South West of England. Founded in 1893, the BSO has developed a reputation as one of the UK's major orchestras and has worked with many of the world's leading composers, conductors and performers. Originally based in
Bournemouth, the BSO moved its offices to the adjacent town of
Poole in 1979.
[1]The Orchestra has worked with an esteemed array of Principal Conductors including
Sir Dan Godfrey,
Rudolf Schwarz,
Constantin Silvestri,
Paavo Berglund,
Andrew Litton and
Marin Alsop, with
Kirill Karabits the incumbent. It is resident at
The Lighthouse, Poole, with other major concert series given at
Portsmouth Guildhall, the Great Hall of
Exeter University and
Colston Hall in Bristol. Shorter series are also given in Bournemouth (Pavilion Theatre) and
Basingstoke.
In 2014, the Orchestra was voted the winner in Bachtrack’s World’s Favourite Orchestra 2014 poll. Over the course of a month, readers submitted their votes, with 11,613 taking part. 383 different orchestras in over 40 different countries were nominated.
[2]from en wikipedia
