Mission
A part of the founding mission of the VSO is to make symphonic music accessible, at an affordable cost, to Vermont's mostly rural citizens. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra does not have a single home hall. Chartered to bring music to the citizenry, the VSO performs in a broad range of settings including Robert Todd Lincoln's estate Hildene, the public lawn of the Vermont State House at Montpelier, the Flynn Center in Burlington, Shelburne Farms on the shore of Lake Champlain in Shelburne, Vermont, Trapp Concert Meadow and many town commons, opera houses and university art centers including Johnson State College, Middlebury College, Castleton State College, Lyndon State College, and the University of Vermont. The VSO has extensive educational outreach with its Musicians-in-the-Schools and Orchestral Youth Concerts programs.
Efraín Guigui Abbo led the orchestra from 1974 to 1989. Jaime Laredo has been music director since 1999. The choral director for the Symphony is Robert DeCormier.
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