RSO is a local orchestra based in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham and our members consists of amateurs, professionals, teachers, and students. Not everyone has music as their background, primary job or study and for many of the orchestras members this is simply a hobby. There are some members who are retired from work, HR managers, ecologists, assistant head teachers, sales people & students to name a few.

The orchestra was established in 2017 as part of the Rotherham Music Hub with further support from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra who held a workshop experience with our members, it was a thrilling day. We performed our first concert ‘Proms in the Park’ in Rotherham's Clifton Park in September of that year as one of the main events of the Rotherham Show weekend. After a few years the orchestra ceased to be part of the Rotherham Music Hub becoming it's own entity when we felt it was fully established.

Following the Covid pandemic the orchestra has revitalised and is now going from strength to strength and has since performed several concerts in a variety of prestigious venues such as Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham Civic Theatre as well as performing numerous concerts in the towns Minster. More recently the orchestra is developing wider relationships across the borough with a view to performing in new settings.

The orchestra rehearses roughly once a month on a Sunday (2-5pm) at Dalton Parish Hall and we aim to perform between 3 and 5 concerts each year. In the Summer of 2023, we appointed Jack Capstaff as our Musical Director and since then the Orchestra has continued to grow, gain new members and increase our audiences too.

For information on joining the orchestra or supporting the orchestra through sponsorship or the patronage scheme please email rotherhamsymphonyorchestra@gmail.com, use the contact form on the Contact Us  page or use the buttons at the bottom of each page of this website.