Sympho Opens 2012 with a Bang! Blam!! Kapow!!!

On Sunday, January 29 at 4 PM, at the Rubin Museum of Art, Sympho and the MAYA trio will present the world premiere of The Green Lama, performed alongside projections of the second issue of the 1940s cult comic book of the same name as part of the Rubin Museum's Hero, Villan, Yeti!: Tibet in Comics exhibition. Narration will be provided by WQXR’s Elliott Forrest, with Linus Roache as the voice of the Green Lama and Brian Cox as master crook Willie the Sleeper.

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Prestigious Commission Awarded to Sympho

Sympho is headed to California in June 2012 to perform in an 80-foot-tall tower! For more information, click here.

Sympho's ARCO Opens Park Avenue Armory Festival

Click here to find out about Sympho's smash success ARCO, commissioned by New York City's Park Avenue Armory. The New York Times called it "exquisite". Or check out the full-length HD video here:

The Music of Sympho

Recordings of past Sympho concerts are now available for streaming and downloads. Please show your support by donating to keep classical music alive!

Sympho is a New Way of Listening

The standard classical music concert is a ritual that has remained unchanged for 150 years. The way dance and theater are performed has evolved steadily right up to the present day – even museums are constantly after new ways to bring their exhibits to life. But most classical music performance practices remain resolutely stuck in the 19th century.

Sympho has invented a new performance concept, at once more accessible and visceral than the traditional concert-hall experience. Gone are the barriers separating orchestra from audience. Innovative theatrical techniques borrowed from contemporary theatre – alternative spatial positioning, lighting – help invigorate a concert-hall experience gone musty with tradition.

Our concerts are movie-length, with a maximum level of stimuli, both auditory and visual. There is a guiding concept driving each concert and animating the music, and the whirling mix of old and new music acknowledges the lack of boundaries in our post-iPod society.

This is not the classical music that whimpers from the speakers in your dentist’s office. It’s alive. And kicking. It’s going to grab you and start shaking. It’s going to give you what you never dreamed you could get from an orchestra concert.

You deserve it. Come take part in an exceptional experience.

Traces Live — Album Recently Released

Did you love TRACES? Didn't get to see it live? Order your very own copy of the Traces album -- recently released in May 2009 and available as a 2-CD set or as downloadable mp3's.

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