Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

Founded: 1935

Music Director: Jesper Nordin

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Aarhus Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1935 and resides in the award-winning Symphonic Hall at Musikhuset Aarhus. The orchestra employs 66 full-time musicians, with the legendary Leif Segerstam acting as honorary conductor. Former Chief Conductors include Marc Soustrot, Giancarlo Andretta, James Loughran and Jorma Panula.

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra attracts a large and diverse audience through w

Aarhus Symphony Orchestra attracts a large and diverse audience through weekly subscription concerts, family concerts, chamber concerts and large-scale collaborative concerts with festivals and concert halls throughout Denmark. In addition, the Orchestra maintains a permanent cooperation with the Danish National Opera (Den Jyske Opera) and has recorded a substantial amount of both Danish contemporary works and standard classical repertoire on CD.

Deeply invested in the community surrounding it, the Orchestra performs social outreach concerts and arranges free school concerts, playing for more than 10.000 children annually. In 2018, the Orchestra added a new ambitious family project for pre-school children and their parents to their activity roster called Musikkens Børn (“the Children of Music”).

In 2021, the orchestra expanded its roster of activities with a series of new concert formats: KonTAKT (“Contact”), VelLyd (“Wellbeing through sound”) and Fyraftenskoncerter (“After hours concerts”). These are all formats that expand the regular concert experience by putting the audiences’ needs front and center, either offering direct contact and interaction with the orchestra, by providing a space for relaxation and contemplation, or simply by facilitating a social setting with music.

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Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Skovgaardsgade 2C, Aarhus C, Midtjylland, 8000, Danimarca.