Bournemouth Symphony finds new base
NewsThe English South Coast orchestra has secured a residency in bucolic Somerset at the refurbished Yeovil Theatre when it reopens in 2025.
The new Octagon will have 900 seats and a retuned acoustic.
The BSO, under Ukrainian music director Kirill Karabits, is growing footprints across England’s musically most underserved region. Its main concert base is in Poole, a harbour town famed for making the world’s costlest private yachts.
Bristol….Englands 6th city shamefully does not have a professional orchestra.The West Country would be europes most artistically deprived region if we didn’t have the Bournemouth Symphony.
Well said, Peter. With the amount of musical talent in the city, the fact we haven’t got a professional symphony orchestra to call our own baffles me.