Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra

Principal Conductor and Artistic Director - Mark Shiell

Melbourne's longest-running community symphony orchestra with a history dating back to 1906.

The Zelman Symphony Orchestra is a mix of professional and amateur players and provides them with opportunities to fulfill their passion for playing fine music, to enhance their skills, and most importantly to share the spirit and joy of fine music with their friends and the wider community. It also provides established and developing conductors and soloists the opportunity to perform with a full symphony orchestra.

Mark Shiell introducing Fast Ride in a Suave Machine by Katy Abbott.

The Zelman Symphony performs works from the Baroque to the present day in regular concerts, primarily in the inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. On this site you will find information about our forthcoming concerts, as well as details about our conductors, performers, past concerts and the history of the orchestra.

Our next concert:

Saturday 13 March 2010, 8.00pm

James Tatoulis Auditorium, Methodist Ladies' College, Barkers Road, Kew

Australia voted and we listened! Winners of ABC Classic FM's top 100 Symphony and Concerto competition were the epic and truly cosmopolitan New World Symphony of Antonín Dvořák and Mozart's sublime Clarinet Concerto. Don't miss this thrilling concert.

Artists Mark Shiell - conductor David Griffiths - clarinet

Program Weber - Der Freischütz: Overture Mozart - Clarinet Concerto Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 From the New World (more details...)