West Michigan Symphony Orchestra

The West Michigan Symphony Orchestra (formerly the West Shore Symphony Orchestra, and usually shortened to the West Michigan Symphony) is a 62-member symphony orchestra based at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts in Muskegon, Michigan. The current Music Director/Conductor is Scott Speck. The Orchestra regularly perform concerts, with special guests, and playing a variety of music.
== History ==
The West Shore Symphony was formed in 1938 by A.M. Courtright, a local teacher, and Palmer Quackenbush. It gave its first performance in November of that year, and incorporated the following year. The orchestra performed in local schools until the Frauenthal Center reopened in the late 1970s. The orchestra currently performs eight concerts per season: five classical and three pops. Among notable soloists who have performed with the orchestra are Jessye Norman, Joshua Bell, Percy Grainger, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Yuri Rozum performed the Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 by Sergei Rachmaninoff with the orchestra on May 5, 2007.
Music Director/Conductor Scott Speck has held the position since 2002
== Education ==
The West Shore Symphony Orchestra sponsors the West Shore Youth Symphony, an orchestra for students around West Michigan. The WSYS is currently conducted by Dan Meyers, Professor of Music at West Shore Community College
Category:American orchestras