Thank You For Our Best Concert Yet!
We have stumbled to find the words to properly express our gratitutde for the turnout at our Smithsonian Art of Video Games performance on Sunday, April 29th. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who made it out to see and support us. We hope the experience was as memorable for you as it was for each of our members. Estimates of attendance fall around the 1,100 mark, as seen in the photo to the right - we've never had an audience sit on the floor before!
Full videos of the concert, courtesy our founder Michelle Eng, can be found here. MP3s of this semester's pieces will be available soon on our Listen page, so keep an eye out! Also coming soon, a gallery of photographs captured before, after, and throughout the performance!
The Gamer Symphony Orchestra is a student run ensemble, funded only by the UMD SGA and our generous fans' donations. Please visit our Giving to Maryland page to show your support through a tax-deductible donation!
We look forward to seeing you in the Fall!
GSO Radio Show!
We have a radio show! Tune in to hear us on WMUC for the semester, Friday nights/Saturday mornings from midnight to 2 am on the digital channel, which you can listen to on the WMUC website. We'll be playing video game music, discussing music in the game industry, and other fun stuff. If you have any ideas or suggestions for the show, please feel free to email us at umd@gamersymphony.org!
Fall 2011 Concert Recordings and MAGFest Adventures
Concert recordings are available here, and a video playlist here, courtesy our founder, Michelle Eng! - Did you take photos or videos? Share them with us at umd@gamersymphony.org! Miss the performance? Take a look at the program here, in a PDF for your convenience.
The GSO had a fantastic time at MAGFest X. Our panel, "Orchestral Game Music and Society", had a decent turnout, and our Jamspace performance had a small but enthusiastic audience.
The best audience we could have asked for, however, was Nobuo Uematsu himself and the Earthbound Papas, for whom a small GSO contingent performed Chris Apple's arrangement of "The Promised Land". View the impromptu performance below!
Many, many thanks to the Earthbound Papas and MAGFest for this spectacular opportunity. We hope you enjoyed having us as much as we enjoyed attending! See you next year at MAGFest 11!
