Darwin Symphony Orchestra prepares for its first regional NT tour in a decade

This month, DSO is travelling across the NT to perform in three different locations, including a festival concert under the stars.
Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) Territory Tour hero image. A casually dressed conductor, wearing a t-shirt and baseball cap, leads members of the DSO in an outdoor performance in a park. Cars, families on picnic rugs, and childfren playing footy on the grass are visible in the background.

For the first time in a decade, Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is taking the whole Orchestra on the road for an NT Tour. 

From 8-13 April, the Orchestra is performing in Katherine (located at the convergence of the traditional lands of the Jawoyn, Dagoman and Wardaman Peoples), Jurnkkurakurr/Tennant Creek and Mparntwe/Alice Springs, each concert featuring both new and longstanding collaborations with local musicians in a large-scale celebration of Territory talent.

DSO will perform alongside special guest and local musician Gypsy Schmidt in Katherine (where the Orchestra will help celebrate the grand opening of the Balang T E Lewis Amphitheatre at Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre) and in Tennant Creek with multi award-winning musician Dr Shellie Morris AO, in a debut performance of new songs from a collaboration with Warumungu women Rosemary Plummer, Marlene Plummer and Miriam Frank, with new arrangements by DSO Composer in Residence Netanela Mizrahi.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts