The LSO website is moving to the new Michigan Medicine website, and our main URL (lso.med.umich.edu) now redirects there. The direct URL is https://www.michiganmedicine.org/community/arts-health/life-sciences-orchestra and the site will be updated soon with information about the upcoming season.
The LSO’s first concert of the season will feature the first symphonies composed by two of classical music’s giants: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gustav Mahler. All are invited to attend this free performance, which will also feature music composed by Mozart for the ballet Idomeneo. No tickets are required for the free concert, which will …
The LSO is pleased to announce the return of its Concerto Competition, which allows our members and select other members of the U-M life sciences community a chance to compete to perform a solo work in concert with the LSO. The next Concerto Competition date will be December 4, 2022, from 12-4 pm at the …
After an audition process that brought out nearly 100 musicians seeking seats in the orchestra, we are pleased to reveal the roster for our 2022-2023 season. See it at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/lso/members/roster/ . Thank you to everyone who auditioned. To those we were not able to accept, we encourage you to try again in future. And to …
The LSO will return to the stage of Hill Auditorium on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, also called the “Titan” symphony, and two works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo, and his Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K. 16. The LSO will once again perform under …
LSO announces Jan. 20 concert program and assistant conductor Read More »
Updated August 23 to include the link to audition signup. The LSO is back in action for a new season, again under the baton of Yeo Ryeong Ahn as she returns from a prestigious conducting fellowship at the Chautaqua Institution in New York. Find out more about what we’re playing at our January 20 concert! …
Alice J. Fishman and Michael A. DiPietro, M.D., Life Sciences Orchestra Endowed Fund gives the LSO ‘staying power’ In spring of 2000, bassoonist and pediatric radiologist Michael DiPietro, M.D., was playing woodwind quintets with other University of Michigan physicians when the idea of creating something bigger – an orchestra for the U-M medical and science …
Generous gift from LSO founder and wife makes the orchestra’s future bright Read More »
After two years away from performing, including a last-minute cancellation of the planned January 2022 concert due to the Omicron surge of the pandemic, the LSO is ready to share its music with the community on the evening of Friday, April 1. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Hill Auditorium, the LSO will perform a free …
April in Paris: The LSO returns to the stage April 1 Read More »
After the disappointment of having to cancel our January 9 concert, the LSO is returning to rehearsals on February 6 with a plan for performing on Sunday, April 1 at Hill Auditorium under the baton of Yeo Ryeong Ahn, who is the Gilbert S. Omenn Music Director of the LSO and a doctoral student in …
After three months of rehearsals, our first since early 2020, the LSO was eager to present a concert on Sunday, Jan. 9 with full COVID-19 precautions. But with the rapid rise in cases and hospitalizations in our area and beyond, and with the need for our clinically trained orchestra members and audience members to stay …
