| Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) | |
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| Founded | 1893 |
| Concert hall | Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset |
| Principal conductor | Mark Wigglesworth |
| Website | bsolive |
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO[1]) is an English orchestra, founded in 1893 and originally based in Bournemouth. With a remit to serve the South and South West of England, the BSO is administratively based in the adjacent town of Poole, since 1979.[2] The orchestra is resident at Lighthouse in Poole, with other major concert series given at Portsmouth Guildhall, the Great Hall of Exeter University and Bristol Beacon. Shorter series are also given in Bournemouth (Pavilion Theatre) and Basingstoke.
Principal conductors of the orchestra have included Sir Dan Godfrey, Rudolf Schwarz, Constantin Silvestri, Paavo Berglund, Andrew Litton, Marin Alsop, and Kirill Karabits. The current principal conductor is Mark Wigglesworth, as of the 2024-2025 season. The orchestra's current chief executive is Dougie Scarfe.
- ^ Note that other orchestra such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra also use the acronym 'BSO'.
- ^ Street, Sean, and Carpenter, R., The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, A Centenary Celebration. Wimborne, The Dovecote Press Ltd, 1993 (ISBN 978-1874336105).