Education & Community

Partnerships

Each season, the SSO collaborates with dozens of other Central New York arts and cultural organizations and is a catalyst in the community for such partnerships. The following is a partial list of organizations with which the SSO has partnered in the past several years:

  • Partners for Arts Education
  • Arts in Mind
  • Syracuse Opera
  • Syracuse Stage
  • WCNY ClassicFM
  • Onondaga Historical Association
  • Cultural Resources Council
  • Center of Ballet and Dance Arts
  • Upstate NY Ballet Inc.
  • Syracuse School of Dance
  • Syracuse University Oratorio Society
  • Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club
  • Syracuse Children's Chorus
  • Syracuse Women's Chorus
  • Syracuse University School of Music
  • Cicero-North Syracuse Girls' Chorus
  • East Syracuse Minoa Girls' Chorus
  • Fayetteville-Manlius Girls' Chorus
  • West Genesee Girls' Chorus
  • Cathedral Festival Chorus
  • Onondaga County Select High School Chorus
  • Kathleen O'Keefe School of Irish Dancing
  • Civic Morning Musicals
  • Oneida High School Chorus
  • Cazenovia High School Chorus
  • Central New York Jazz Orchestra
  • First Presbyterian Church United Bell Choir
  • Onondaga Dance Institute
  • Dance Centre North

As a member of the Syracuse community, the SSO places great emphasis on its participation in important community events, activities and observances.

In recent years, the Symphony has performed at a memorial service at Syracuse University for victims of the Pan Am 103 disaster; played for Syracuse's holiday tree lighting ceremony; produced a tribute concert to relief workers following the North Country ice storm and the Labor Day wind storm; and traveled to Seneca Falls to participate in the Women's Rights 150th anniversary celebration. The SSO also performed on the stage of Clinton Square as part of the community's "We Stand Together" memorial service for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S.