Daytona Beach Symphony - Society and Guild

The Daytona Beach Symphony Society  is about to start its 65th season! Though Daytona does not have its own symphony orchestra, the Symphony Guild and Symphony Society manage to wow, entertain, and delight Daytona Beach residents every year with world-class acts.

This season will kick off on November 11 with Siberian Virtuosi – an ensemble of 11 brilliant violinists bringing you a thrilling evening. Throughout the season you can also experience the Prague Philharmonia, The Vienna Boys’ Choir, Bamberg Symphony, Theatro Lyrica, and much more. Every last performance featured by the Daytona Beach Symphony Society is of outstanding and high-class nature. Truly fabulous cultural experiences! Get your tickets here .

Thanks to tireless efforts of the Symphony Guild, the greater Daytona Beach area can enjoy these incredible performances every year! The Guild’s work includes advocacy for the Symphony Society, and of course fundraising. In addition, the membership dues make a program possible for 2,500 school children to see the performances each year at no cost to them. Many of the 6 to 18 year-old students are at risk, and at least 40% percent live below the poverty line. Here they can experience top-notch musical performances, which would not be possible without the Guild’s program. 

In May of this year, the Symphony Guild elected a new president, Gerri Wright-Gibson, with whom the new guild season will kick off on Monday, October 3 at 10am at the St. James Episcopal Church in Ormond Beach.

Meetings are every first Monday of the month, October through May. Being a member comes with some terrific benefits! You get to meet and socialize with interesting and fun people. As a guild member, you can receive a 35% discount on season tickets to the Symphony Society performances. And you receive invitations to the Daytona Beach Symphony Guild’s cultural excursions and outings, unique parties, dinners, luncheons, and a newsletter. You can be on one of 13 committees! Most importantly, you can be an advocate for Daytona Beach’s premier source of music, dance, and performance: The Daytona Beach Symphony Society.

If you would like to join, the annual fee is $40. You can email Joan Fenton, who is in charge of memberships, and she will advise you how to proceed. Email Joan

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Culture in Daytona Beach

The Daytona Beach Symphony Society

For 63 years, the Daytona Beach Symphony Society (DBSS) has been bringing world-class musical performance to our area. If you are relocating to the Florida east coast from a big city, fear not! Culture abounds in the greater Daytona Beach Area!

During the last season, which just ended, wildly famous and unbelievably talented orchestras and soloists performed for our community, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, and the Mariinsky Orchestra. Soloists included violin virtuosos Pinchas Zukerman and Ray Chen, pianist Vladimir Feltsman, and many more. Even the Russian National Ballet Theatre performed at the Peabody Auditorium   in Daytona! So you can see, just from the most recent season, the DBSS can easily compete with much larger cities.

 Community Involvement

The DBSS offers more than just a night of breathtaking music. They support many outreach programs: With focus on at-risk children, YES (Youth Experiencing Symphony) introduces over 3,000 local students to classical music each year. Research has soundly proven the importance of the arts in students’ academic success. Therefore this program is relevant on many levels.

DBSS also reaches out to senior citizens, offering reduced fare transportation services. So if you are on a fixed income, you can still experience the joys of beautiful music!

Family discounts are offered to adults attending with children. They receive a  discount on adult tickets and pay $10 for their children. A family of four can attend any of our concerts for an affordable price. And area students can attend performances for $10.

Making art accessible is one of DBSS’s important missions

Take a look what the Daytona Beach SymphonySociety has to offer you. 

By the time the 64^th season comes around on November 20 with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, you might be ready to enjoy some of the remarkable performances the Symphony Society brings to Daytona. 

 

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