Welcome to the Orchestral Resource page! Here, you will find many links to orchestral and instrumental organizations as well as links to helpful resources such as rehearsal technique, advocacy, free orchestral music, etc.. This site is by no means comprehensive for any category. If you would like submit a link to be posted here (your own or something I have accidentally left out), please send me an email. I hope that you will find this page useful : )

ORCHESTRAL ORGANIZATIONS and RESOURCES

• American Symphony Orchestra League
• CODA - Collegiate Orchestra Directors Association
• Conductors Guild 
• ICSO - International Conference for Symphony and Opera Musicians
• League of American Orchestras
• National Orchestral Association

INSTRUMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (Includes some Early Instruments)

• American Federation of Violin & Bow Makers 
• American Music Resource 
• American Musical Instrument Society 
• American Musicological Society 
• American Nyckelharpa Association
• American Recorder Society 
• Association for Violoncello - French site
• Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors Association 
• Boston Clavichord Society 
• British Harpsichord Society 
• Catgut Acoustical Society - CAS, Forum Home of the Violin Society of America
• CIMCIM - International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums & Collections
• The Cornet Compendium 
• Culture Pages of the Sibelius Academy - Finland
• Dutch Clavichord Society 
• The Galpin Society - for the study of Musical Instruments
• Guild of American Luthiers 
• Hardanger Fiddle Association of America 
• Historic Brass Society 
• The Historical Harp Society 
• Horn Page of Thomas Bacon 
• Indiana University list of musical links
• International Double Reed Society 
• International Horn Society 
• International Society of Bassists 
• International Society of Folk Harpers and Craftsmen 
• International Trumpet Guild 
• International Tuba-Euphonium Association 
• Lute Society of America 
• The-Music-Directory.com
• Music Library Association 
• Musical Box Society International 
• Musical Instrument Technicians Association 
• National Flute Association 
• National Harmonica League 
• Ophicleide Directory 
• Organ Historical Society 
• Percussive Arts Society 
• Pianonet.com - National Piano Foundation
• The Piano Page - The Piano Technician's Guild
• Reed Organ Society 
• Ruckers Genootschap - promoting understanding of mus instr through study & design
• The SERPENT website 
• Serpent - "Tempted by a Serpent" by Douglas Yeo
• Society for Ethnomusicology 
• Society for 17th Century Music 
• Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica 
• Vintage Cornets 
• Viola da Gamba Society of America 
• Violin Society of America 
• The Westfield Center - Nat'l resource for the advancement of the keyboard

A FEW ORCHESTRAS

• Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - London
• Adelaide Symphony Orchestra - Australia
• American Symphony
• Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - Georgia
• Baltimore Philharmonic - Maryland
• BBC Philharmonic - London
• Boston Chamber Ensemble (Chamber Orchestra) - Massachusetts
• Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra - Colorado
• Brazilian Symphony Orchestras -created by Juracy Cardoso + Claudia Ribeiro Sales
• Buffalo Philharmonic - New York
• The Canadian Orchestra List
• Canberra Symphony Orchestra - Australia
• CBC Vancouver Orchestra
• Charleston Symphony Orchestra - South Carolina
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Illinois
• Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra - Ohio
• Cleveland Symphony Orchestra - Ohio
• Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Texas
• Houston Symphony Orchestra - Texas
• Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
• Los Angeles Philharmonic - California
• Louisiana Philharmoic Orchestra - New Orleans
• The Minnesota Orchestra
• New York Philharmonic Orchestra - NYC
• The Philadelphia Orchestra - Pennsylvania
• The Pittsburgh Symphony - Pennsylvania
• Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra - The Sultanate of Oman
• Orquestra de Câmara de Blumenau - Brazil
• Orquestra Filarmônica Jaraguá do Sol - Brazil
• The San Francisco Symphony - California
• The Utah Symphony

CONDUCTING

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Working with a Bulgarian orchestra

A FEW CONDUCTORS...

• Claudio Abbado
• Samuel Adler
• Marin Alsop
• Ernest Ansermet - (1883-1969)
• Vladmimir Ashkenazy - (equally famous as pianist)
• Daniel Barenboim
• Leon Barzin - (1900-1999)
• Sir Thomas Beecham - (1879-1971)
• Leonard Bernstein - (1918-1990)
• Herbert Blomstedt
• Karm Bohm - (1894-1981
• Daniel Bortholossi - : )
• Pierre Boulez
• Adrian Boult - (1889-1983)
• Ricardo Chailly
• Sir Colin Davis
• Charles Dutoit
• Eric Ericson - wiki info
• Lukas Foss - (1922-2009)
• Wilhelm Furtwangler - (1886-1954)
• John Eliot Gardiner
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• Bernard Heinze - (1894-1982)
• Richard Hickox - (1948-2008)
• Christopher Hogwood
• Karel Husa
• Eliahu Inbal
• Neeme Järvi
• Ann Howard Jones
• Herbert von Karajan - (1908-1989), a tribute
• Otto Klemperer - (1885-1973)
• Sergei Koussevitsy - (1974-1951)
• James Levine
• Andrew Litton
• Lorin Maazel
• Gustav Mahler - (1860-1911) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler
• Neville Marriner
• Kurt Masur
• Zubin Mehta
• Dimitri Mitropoulos - (1896-1960)
• Pierre Monteux - (1875-1964) and at http://www.monteuxschool.org/
• Charles Munch - (1891-1968)
• Ricardo Muti
• Eugene Ormandy - (1899-1985)
• Seiji Ozawa
• Jorma Panula - and Jorma Panula Foundation
• Trevor Pinnock
• Andre Previn
• Simon Rattle
• Fritz Reiner - (1888-1963)
• Karl Richter - (1926-1981)
• Max Rudolf - (1902-1995)
• Esa-Pekka Salonen 
• Kurt Sanderling
• Michele Santorsola
• Malcolm Sargent - (1895-1967)
• Wolfgang Sawallisch and Wolfgang Sawallisch Foundation
• Robert Shaw - wiki site and http://sites.google.com/site/delasso/ and here
• Leonard Slatkin
• George Solti
• David Stahl
• Leopold Stokowski - (1882-1977)
• George Szell- (1897-1970)
• Anu Tali
• Michael Tilson Thomas
• Arturo Toscanini - (1867-1957)
• Simone Young
• Bruno Walter - (1876-1962) and at http://www.brunowalter.org/ 
• Xian Zhang