Manassas Symphony Orchestra, winner of the 2015 American Prize, is the Manassas area’s premier all-volunteer community-service symphony orchestra.
The Manassas Symphony Orchestra is a volunteer community organization comprised of residents of the greater Manassas area. The orchestra exists for the purpose of performing symphonic literature to provide a quality orchestral experience for college students as well as a performance outlet for the talent and training of the community members. The orchestra serves to enlighten and educate the general public.
To execute its mission, the MSO provides many benefits to the community, including these:
- Opportunities for family-friendly, reasonably priced concert experiences at a world class venue
- Deeply discounted concert tickets for all educators and senior citizens
- Free concert tickets for students through college and children
- Performance opportunities for adult recreational orchestral players
- Recertification credit for educators who play with the symphony
- Performance and solo opportunities for exceptional high school students from the area
- Commissioning high quality new music for community orchestra
- Opportunities for showcasing area soloists
- Opportunities for audiences to experience nationally-known soloists
- Taking nationally-known soloists into local schools for classes and seminars
- Free summer pops concerts in the community
