About Us
Perth Orchestral Society was founded in 1951, and its playing members – Perth Symphony Orchestra – gave their first concert on 26th April 1953.
For fifty years the orchestra has performed two regular concerts each year, and is often invited to give other concerts, for example for charity.
Today it has around 50 playing members with a professional conductor and leader.
Why we play
The Society’s aim is to provide enjoyment and give people the chance to play in an orchestra. To playing members, amateur and professional alike, it offers the opportunity of being part of a full symphony orchestra, and the satisfaction of giving regular public concerts in a full-sized hall.
To listening members, it offers the pleasure of varied concert programmes – classical, romantic, modern, popular, and sometimes adventurous – at a modest cost, in the most central venue in Perth.
The orchestra also likes to give young professional musicians, formerly at Perth and Kinross schools, the chance to play as augmenters. Exceptionally talented young Perth professionals are invited to perform as soloists.
Our Next Concert
Saturday 14th November 2026, 7.30pm
Perth Concert Hall
Hamish MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto, Soloist: Karolina Csathy
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 (New World)
