Totalling 250 players drawn from over 50 of the world’s finest orchestras and ensembles, the AWO can call on leading musicians from Australia’s state orchestras as well as attracting returning ex-pat colleagues from prestigious companies such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the major London orchestras and many more. The sheer array of talent, coupled with the plush, award-winning AWO sound, has seen many of the world’s starriest conductors lining up to lead the Orchestra both in Australia and overseas.
Hailed by audiences and critics alike as charismatic, inspiring and one of a kind, in the words of Sir Simon Rattle:
“the [AWO] is not just a national treasure but an international treasure”.