Why OrchestraFinder exists

There are more than a hundred professional symphony orchestras in the United States, and most of them play to people who already live nearby. If you're traveling, or you've just moved, or you've simply never looked, there's no easy way to learn that the orchestra two hours down the highway is playing Mahler this weekend.

OrchestraFinder gathers every orchestra's published season into one place. Search near where you are. Plan a trip around a performance. Follow a composer, a conductor, a soloist, or a single piece and find out the moment it's programmed.

For newcomers as much as devotees

Every work and every artist on this site gets its own page, written in plain language for people who are curious rather than credentialed. What is a symphony, really? Why do people talk about Beethoven's Ninth the way they do? How long is it, and when should you clap? We're writing those answers ourselves, one piece at a time.

For orchestras

We want to bring you audiences you'd never reach on your own: the visitor in town for a conference, the family passing through on a road trip, the listener three states away who follows a soloist you've booked. If you run an orchestra and want your season listed accurately, or want to talk about a direct feed, write to info@orchestrafinder.com.

Where the data comes from

Concert listings are drawn from each orchestra's own published season and checked before they appear. Composer and work identities are cross-referenced against open catalogs so that "Beethoven's 9th" and "Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125" are recognized as the same thing. All descriptions, biographies, and program notes are original to OrchestraFinder.