About Us

The orchestra seeks to provide students with the opportunity to study and perform some of the most challenging symphonic repertoire. We cater both for members seeking to pursue careers in the music profession as well as those wishing to continue and develop their performance skills whilst completing degrees in non-musical subjects. Many of our members go on to conservatoires after their time at Southampton, while others become doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers and more! We take on a full professional programme each term, and repertoire highlights in the last couple of years have included symphonies by Mahler, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. In addition to the four concerts a year, our members enjoy a variety of socials and a European tour

Our approaching 2023-24 SUSO concert season promises many new opportunities for this long established Southampton orchestra. With a newly appointed Assistant Musical Director, we have some exciting new concert projects ahead, which will see the orchestra team up with children’s choirs from local schools, offer music workshops for local primary school children, perform ambitious programmes of mainstream symphonic repertoire – offering new conducting experience to its assistant student conductor along the way, and it will embark upon a concert tour to Germany next June. The SUSO’s work within the local community and its continued musical journey, looks bright.

The orchestra offers high quality training to Southampton University students from all degree courses, and with as much as 50% of the orchestral membership studying non-musical subjects (from aeronautics to computer science, engineering to history, law to languages and medicine to economics and many more) we are keen to increase the orchestra’s links with local companies – equally, from all fields and professions.

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Winter 2023

Orchestra List 23/24

Violin 1 Minghao Sun *Alex Li SeligmannAmatta MirandariKai TaylorSophie PrattLucia GiraldoTessa MičićDavid BrouatTom Johnson +Manon SmithYueh-Tzu WengEtienne Lallemand +Sean LaneGulcin ErtenEuan Lee-Cann Violin 2 Arianna Busuioc *Oliver SmithSophie TomkinsSuzie KnockLaura FlintCharlotte RossiterKatie FungLawrence GaliliIsobel CoullsChrysoula Read more…

Pre-Term 2023

Preterm Orchestra 2023

Violin 1 Arianna Busuioc *Anna Hinchliff James Di CapiteTessa MičićEtienne Lallemand + Isobel CoullsTom Johnson +Sean Oscar Lane Violin 2 Amatta Mirandari *Matthew Botten Suzie KnockFreya RyanEuan Lee-CannGulcin ErtenLaura FlintChrysoula Anastassopoulos Viola Genevieve Namazzi *Justin Read more…

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Pre-Term Signups 2023

CALLING ALL FRESHERS AND RETURNERS Sign ups for pre term is now open for all prospective students returning and joining in September 2023. Pre-Term is a week long event hosted by the Southampton University Symphony Read more…

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Where we are based

University of Southampton

University Road

Southampton

SO17 1BJ

United Kingdom

Email

suso@soton.ac.uk