Welcome Chelsea Kim
I was more than honored to join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra starting in May 2019. I recently graduated from Shepherd School of Music at Rice University with a Masters of Music and earned my Bachelors from The Juilliard School. My teachers have included Kathleen Winkler, Li Lin, Donald Weilerstein, and…
Welcome Vitor Trindade
I am 23 years old, from a little village in Portugal called Ericeira. I moved to the US three years ago to pursue an Artist Diploma at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. I have been playing with the BSO since October 2019, and it has been an unbelievable experience.…
Welcome Agnes Tse
I was born and raised in Hong Kong. Neither of my parents are musicians, but my younger sister and I both picked up an instrument at a young age (she is a pianist). I attended an academic-based high school in Hong Kong, and I found myself struggling between violin and…
A Baltimore Symphony Musician’s Life in Limbo
Last summer’s lockout had immense consequences when we had to figure out how to make ends meet while unemployed for 14 weeks with little warning. The difficulties and uncertainty for all of us this past year are impossible to overstate. We spent most of the 2018-19 season knowing next summer…
What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
by Brian Prechtl This has been a terribly difficult summer for the Baltimore Symphony musicians—frankly, it has been a terribly difficult year. From the moment we arrived back in Baltimore following our triumphant tour to the UK and Ireland in September of 2018, we were caught in the shifting sands…
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Musicians Reach One-Year Agreement: Concert Season to Open This Weekend
After 14 long weeks on the picket line we are looking forward to taking the stage this weekend at Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and the Music Center At Strathmore. Don’t miss it! Here is the joint press release: September 23, 2019 – The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (BSO) and members of…
Celebrate Baltimore
The Baltimore Symphony Musicians performed a free concert celebrating our fair city and the amazing people that live in it! The Baltimore Symphony Musicians were led by Marin Alsop and joined by a combined choir from the Choral Community of Baltimore, renowned soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme and Tony Award winning baritone,…
BSO Musicians file Unfair Labor Practice charge
This morning the BSO Musicians filed the following Unfair Labor Practice charge against the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with the National Labor Relations Board:
Press Statement September 9, 2019
Press Statement 9-9-2019 Baltimore Symphony Musicians September 9, 2019 Baltimore Symphony Management intent on cutting season despite offer of $1 million from generous donors. At 6:59 pm this evening, BSO management issued a “take it or leave it” offer to the BSO Musicians which will be presented to the orchestra for…
Press Statement – August 21, 2019
Baltimore Symphony Musicians August 21, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Baltimore Symphony Musicians ask to be included in the decision-making processes of the BSO in latest contract negotiations The Baltimore Symphony Musicians met with management representatives of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra today for contract negotiations. The musicians proposed that the BSO…