Sharing the joy of music with school children across Tasmania

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is excited to launch its TSO for Schools program for 2025.

Throughout next year, our musicians will once again be hitting the road to visit schools and communities across the state.

In 2024, the TSO has reached a record number of school children. By the end of this week, more than 12,000 Tasmanian students will have attended a TSO performance in a school, concert hall or community venue.

Our musicians have performed for school children from Burnie to Strahan, St Helens to Triabunna.

‘We are well on our way to achieving our vision that by 2030 every Tasmanian child will experience their orchestra by grade 3,’ says TSO chief executive Caroline Sharpen.

TSO for Schools is generously supported by the TSO Business Collective – a diverse network of Tasmanian professionals who are passionate about providing children across the state with access to music education.

In 2025, Variety Tasmania will sponsor TSO events across Tasmania’s North West, making them free for schools in the region.

In the South, free events will include multi-school concerts for younger students and an emerging composers’ concert for those in secondary school.

Later in the year, there will be festive Halloween and Christmas-themed concerts in the TSO Studio in Hobart.

Additional TSO for Schools activities include exciting training for music teachers and our popular Science and Sound sessions, which explore how music is made and align to the primary school science curriculum.

For secondary students, open rehearsals are a great opportunity to see and hear how the conductor and the musicians work together to prepare for a performance.