Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra (DSSO)

This season, titled American Voices, we complete our three year project featuring underrepresented composers.

View the season here: dsso.com/2024-25-concerts

Our mission is to enhance our community through the performance of symphonic music that engages and inspires.

With our 2024-25 season, the DSSO will complete its three year project emphasizing the music of underrepresented voices on the stage of Symphony Hall. American Voices focuses on contemporary American composers.  These concerts present a wide variety of American works, ranging from classics by Samuel Barber and George Gershwin to regional premiers by Miguel del Aguila, Peter Boyer, Gabriela Lena Frank, James Lee III, and Jonathan Leshnoff.  We also feature some of the masterworks of the orchestral repertoire from Wolfgang Mozart to Claude Debussy.  Our pops season will return with the community favorite Holiday Spectacular and the blockbuster Star Wars, live with orchestra.

Your Donations

Revenue from ticket sales covers approximately 1/3 of the total costs to run the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra.  While this is typical in the orchestra field, it does present us with the need to ask our community members to support the orchestra and music they love.  Please join our musicians, board, and staff, by giving any amount to help sustain symphonic music in the Twin Ports!

Your money is spent on:

• Music Performance: Your gift will be used to fund orchestra rehearsals, sheet music, hall rental, and musicians’ fees.  All of these things are essential to bring symphonic music to life for our audiences.
• Youth Education: In order to build the audiences of tomorrow, the DSSO must reach out to the youth of today. Your gift will be used to fund Young People’s Concerts, the Lollipop Concerts and hands-on instrumental music instruction through the DSSO Youth Orchestras teaching and performances.  Education is also supported by donations that allow us to offer reduced-priced student tickets.
• Operations: Behind the scenes, a symphony has many needs. Your gift will be used to fund administrative costs—everything from marketing our concerts to buying paper for the copy machine!

Any amount will help enrich the community with music.  Thank YOU!!!