Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra is a Taiwanese orchestra based in Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

. It is also the only professional orchestra in Southern Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. Founded in 1981, the orchestra was owned and ran by the city government until its privatization in 2009.

Directorship

The current conductor-in-residence of the orchestra is Taiwanese conductor YANG Chih-Chin. It was also KCSO that invited maestro Henry Mazer

Henry Mazer

Henry Mazer , is an American conductor, who was also the former conductor and music director of Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 until he died in February, 2001...

 to Taiwan in the first place , who eventually led the Taipei Philharmonic

Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra

-History:Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1985 by a group of enthusiastic musicians. It has come a long way under the direction of late American conductor Henry Mazer, who came from Chicago Symphony Orchestra and stayed with TPO for over 18 years....

, then Taipei Sinfonietta, to its fame.