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The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an Australian orchestra based in Melbourne. The MSO is resident at Hamer Hall. The MSO has its own choir, the MSO Chorus, following integration with the Melbourne Chorale in 2008.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO)
Orchestra
Website	www.mso.com.au

The MSO relies on funding by the Victorian State Government and the Federal government and support from private corporations and donors. It is supported by Symphony Services International. Sophie Galaise joined the MSO as its first female Managing Director in 2016. Its current Chairman is David Li.[1]

History

The founder of the Albert Street Conservatorium Orchestra was Alberto Zelman. This orchestra gave its first concert on 11 December 1906. In 1923, Bertha Jorgensen became the first female leader of a professional orchestra in Australia, and she went on to play with the orchestra for 50 years and became the longest-serving female leader of an orchestra on an international scale. In 1927, the orchestra combined with the Melbourne University Symphony Orchestra to form the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.[2]

In 1934, the MSO became one of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's radio orchestras.[3] In 1949, the orchestra took on the new name of the Victorian Symphony Orchestra, reverting to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 1965. Following the re-structure of the Australian Broadcasting Commission into a corporation, in 1997 the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ABC. It became an independent company when the six Australia state orchestras were divested from the corporation in 2007.[4]

The MSO's longest-serving chief conductor was Hiroyuki Iwaki (1974–1997), who was named Conductor Laureate of the orchestra in 1989 and held the title until his death in 2006. The orchestra's most recent Chief Conductor, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), was appointed in June 2012. Sir Andrew Davis gave his inaugural concerts as the MSO's Chief Conductor in 2013, having made his debut with the orchestra in 2009.[5] The MSO also works with Principal Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey, Principal Guest Conductor Xian Zhang and guest conductors like Thomas Adès, John Adams, Tan Dun, Markus Stenz and Simone Young.

The MSO was the first Australian orchestra to perform overseas (New Zealand, 1965), and the first to play in Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1970.[6] Its overseas tours – the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Europe (2000, 2007, 2014), China (2002), St Petersburg, Russia (2003) and Japan (2005) – have gained it widespread international recognition. In January 2000, under the baton of the then Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Markus Stenz, the MSO represented Australasia at the Festival of the Five Continents in the Canary Islands alongside other orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic. In January 2007 the Orchestra embarked on its second European tour, visiting five cities in Spain (Castellon, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Pamplona, Madrid), Paris, Berlin and Milan.

Sir Andrew Davis became Chief Conductor in 2013. During his tenure, the MSO made its debut at five of the classical music festivals, including The Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival.[7] In July 2015, the MSO extended Davis' contract through 2019.[8] In April 2018, the MSO announced that Davis is to conclude his MSO chief conductorship at the end of December 2019.[9]

In April 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cancellation of live performances, the MSO management stood down the MSO musicians and selected administrative staff into 'hibernation' status.[10][11] In December 2020, the MSO launched its on-demand digital streaming platform, MSO.LIVE, which broadcasts performances to audiences at home.[12][13]

Jaime Martín first guest-conducted the MSO in June 2019, and returned for an additional guest-conducting appearance in February 2021. In June 2021, the MSO announced the appointment of Martín as its next Chief Conductor,[14] and Martín gave his first performance in the role at Hamer Hall in February 2022.[15]

The MSO's recent discs include Strauss' Four Last Songs, Don Juan and Also Sprach Zarathustra[16] on ABC Classics. On the Chandos label the MSO has recently released Berlioz' Harold en Italie with James Ehnes and Ives' Symphonies No.1 & 2, both led by Sir Andrew Davis.[17]

Chief Conductors

Discography

Charting albums

List of albums, with Australian chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions	Certifications
		AUS [18]
Music for Dreaming	Released: 2002 Format: CD Label: P&D/Sony (MDCD001)	98	ARIA: 2× Platinum[18]
Live in Australia (with Meat Loaf)	Released: January 2005 Format: CD Label: Warner Bros. (5046-75070-2)	20	ARIA: Gold[18]
Classical Spectacular	Released: 2005 Format: CD Label: Decca (4768903)	47

Awards and nominations

APRA Awards

Since 2003 APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) have combined with AMC (Australian Music Centre) to present the Classical Music Awards at an annual ceremony as part of the APRA Music Awards.[19] In 2011 the Classical Music Awards were re-branded as the Art Music Awards.[19]

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref.
2003	"End of All Journeys" (Andrew Batterham) – MSO	Orchestral Work of the Year	Nominated	[20][21]
2005	Moments of Bliss (Brett Dean) – MSO	Best Performance of an Australian Composition	Nominated	[22][23]
2006	Oboe Concerto (Ross Edwards – MSO, Diana Doherty	Orchestral Work of the Year	Nominated	[24][25]
	Community Outreach 2005 Program – MSO	Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education	Nominated
2007	Welcome to the MCG (Christopher Gordon) – MSO, Lyn Williams	Orchestral Work of the Year	Nominated	[26][27]
2008	90 Minutes Circling the Earth (Stuart Greenbaum) – MSO, Brett Kelly	Orchestral Work of the Year	Won	[28][29]
	Glass Soldier Suite (Nigel Westlake) – MSO, Geoffrey Payne, Jean-Louis Forestier		Nominated
	Musaic (Anne Cawrse) – MSO, Kevin Field		Nominated
	Oboe Concertante (Margaret Sutherland) – MSO, Jiří Tancibudek, Patrick Thomas		Nominated
	Hunger – MSO's ArtPlay ensemble	Outstanding Contribution to Australian Music in Education	Won
2009	Noumen (Robert Dahm) – MSO, Reinbert de Leeuw	Orchestral Work of the Year	Nominated	[30][31]
2012	Gardener of Time (Barry Conyngham) – MSO	Work of the Year – Orchestral	Nominated	[32][33]
2014	The Last Days of Socrates (Brett Dean, Graeme Ellis) – MSO and Chorus, Peter Coleman-Wright, Simone Young	Work of the Year – Orchestral	Nominated	[34][35]
		Performance of the Year	Won
2022	The Rest Is Silence (Anne Cawrse) – MSO, Michael Pisani, Nicholas Carter	Work of the Year: Large Ensemble	Nominated	[36][37]
	Love is a Temporary Madness, The Symphonic Suite (Vanessa Perica) – MSO, Vanessa Perica Orchestra, Benjamin Northey	Performance of the Year: Jazz / Improvised Music	Nominated
	WATA (Paul Grabowsky, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred) – MSO, Australian Art Orchestra, Paul Grabowsky, Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred, Benjamin Northey	Performance of the Year: Notated Composition	Won

ARIA Music Awards

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result	Ref.
1991	Percy Grainger: Orchestral Works (with Geoffrey Simon)	Best Classical Album	Nominated	[38]
1994	Violin Concertos (with Dene Olding & Hiroyuki Iwaki)		Nominated
1995	Simple Gifts (with Yvonne Kenny & Vladimir Kamirski)		Won
1999	The Eternal Rhythm (with Vernon Handley)		Nominated
2001	Music from the Motion Picture – The Dish	Best Original Soundtrack	Won	[39]
2013	Catch Me If You Can (with Amy Dickson)	Best Classical Album	Nominated	[40]
	Missa Solis: Requiem for Eli (with Nigel Westlake)		Nominated
2014	Ades Polaris / Stanhope Piccolo Concerto (with Andrew Macleod, Benjamin Northey & Markus Stenz)		Nominated	[41]
2015	Paper Planes – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (with Nigel Westlake)	Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album	Nominated	[39]
2017	Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2 (with Jayson Gillham & Benjamin Northey)	Best Classical Album	Nominated	[38]
2022	Ross Edwards: Frog and Star Cycle / Symphonies 2 & 3 (with Amy Dickson, Colin Currie, Lothar Koenigs, Yvonne Kenny, David Zinman, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, & Markus Stenz])		Pending	[42]
	The Enchanted Loom: Orchestral works By Carl Vine (with Sir Andrew Davis)		Pending

Helpmann Awards

• 2003 Nominated twice for Best Classical Concert Presentation
• 2004 Nominated for Best Performance in a Classical Concert - MSO Chief Conductor Marcus Stenz
• 2007 Winner of Best Performance in a Classical Concert Presentation
• 2008 Winner of Best Performances in a Classical Concert
• 2011 Nominated twice for Best Symphony Orchestra Concert
• 2015 Nominated twice for Best Symphony Orchestra Concert

References

External links

• Media related to Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• eMelbourne:the city past and present
• Melbourne Stage Archive, "A Century of Symphony"
• Katherine Gilmour, "Melba Conservatorium of Music". eMelbourne website

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Ме́льбурнский симфони́ческий орке́стр (англ. Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, в 1949—1965 гг. Симфонический оркестр Виктории, англ. Victorian Symphony Orchestra) — старейший австралийский симфонический оркестр. Базируется в Мельбурне и поддерживается в финансовом отношении как правительством штата Виктория, так и федеральным правительством Австралии.

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