Oakland East Bay Symphony

Oakland East Bay Symphony in Oakland, Alameda County, United States | Symphony

Welcome to the Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS). The Oakland East Bay Symphony was founded in July 1988, when musicians from the former Oakland Symphony and the Oakland Symphony League joined together to form a new orchestra. In September, 1990, Michael Morgan was named OEBS Music Director and began guiding the Symphony in the musical and philosophical direction it pursues today.

In the Symphony's early years, concerts were performed at the Calvin Simmons Theatre, but they were moved to the much larger space of the Paramount Theatre during the 1995-96 season. Performances have enjoyed growing attendance and critical acclaim ever since. The first live telecast of an OEBS concert was done on BayTV in November 1999. In its efforts to ensure the future of symphonic music, the Oakland East Bay Symphony formed a multi-year partnership with The James Irvine Foundation in 1998, which continues to this date, to initiate the Irvine Commissioning Project - a commissioning and performance program for new symphonic works by living American composers. Oakland East Bay Symphony initiated a new series in 2006-2007 of concert hall stagings of significant works from the American lyric and musical theatre. To help develop the arts, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, United States fosters collaborations with local arts organisations from children's choruses to jazz ensembles to the Oakland Ballet Company. The Symphony showcase new American works in performance and encourage young artists. Today the Oakland East Bay Symphony can truly be considered a community-based organisation, which serves the multi-cultural diversity of the surrounding community. More than 60,000 people attend the Symphony's performances at the Paramount Theatre and at other community sites each year.

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400 - 29th Street Suite 501, Oakland
Oakland
California
United States
510-444-0801
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