The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra (Chinese: 广州交响乐团; abbreviated GSO) is based in Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

, Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

. It was founded in 1957.

The orchestra's current artistic director is Long Yu

Long Yu

Yu Long is currently the Music Director of the China Philharmonic and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.Yu was born into a family of musicians in Shanghai and received his early childhood music education from his grandfather the composer Ding Shande...

 (余隆). It is the only Chinese symphony orchestra that has toured five continents.http://www.gso.org.cn/pages/intr_gso/intr_eng.htm

Greg Patillo, famous beatboxing flutist, was the acting principal flute of the orchestra at one time.

External links

• Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra official site
• List of Symphony Orchestras in Greater China -PRC. HKSAR. Macao SAR and Taiwan