The Bombay Chamber Orchestra (BCO) Society was founded in 1962 as an educational trust, primarily to offer free coaching to the young musical talent of the city in the techniques of orchestral playing. Its aim is, not only to offer free music education, but also to create an environment and incentive to encourage young talent to continue to work at the instruments of their choice. Several young students who made their performing debuts more.....

The BCO is an amateur orchestra and  celebrates its Golden Jubilee  year this year. It is the only Indian symphony orchestra that functions and performs on a regular basis with a concert standard of performance. It performs 5-6 concerts a year in Mumbai, often in collaboration with international guest conductors and soloists, and has also performed in Sri Lanka and several other cities in India .... more......

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 Message from Our Founder

It has been said that a plant grown in a swamp blooms and flourishes fast but it withers fast too!  The Bombay Chamber Orchestra (BCO) has not grown in a swamp.  It has steadily grown these last 50 years with the help of our loyal friends, donors, audience support and, of course, our dedicated orchestral members.  Today, we are proudly in a position to entertain a loyal and steadily growing cosmopolitan audience that look forward to the several concerts we put up in the year.

This year we are celebrating our 51^st year.  Through years of dedicated work and sacrifices, we have offered FREE coaching in orchestral playing techniques to our city’s young talent and encouraged the young to take up wind/brass instruments and instruments of the string sections.  We are most grateful to our visiting guest musicians who have conducted workshops and given individual coaching to train members and beginners, forgoing their professional fees.  Our guest conductors from U.K., Austria, U.S.A., Russia, Israel, Japan and Germany have most willingly given their valuable time to work with the orchestra for 10-15 days prior to each scheduled concert, forgoing their honorarium because they have the greatest admiration for the love and sacrifice of the BCO’s orchestral members who attend rehearsals at 7 a.m.!

It is unfortunate that the city does not have a school of music.  Most of the major cities boast of schools of music and yet they have not given this country an Indian Symphony Orchestra.  The BCO Society, in spite of the grave financial constraints, has pursued what it sets out to do – train and teach young Indian talent and give this country a truly INDIAN symphony Orchestra.

All this has happened not due to one individual, but because the BCO Society has dedicated office bearers – Mr. Bomi Billimoria, Hon. Treasurer, Mr. Alaric Diniz, Joint Honorary Secretary and Mr. Freddy Dinshaw, who gives his time most willingly to attend to administrative and organizational work – a team of workers who have, these many years, worked together and made it possible for the BCO to celebrate its 51^st  year.

To you, our audience :  Thank you for your continuing support and for attending our concerts.

Jini Dinshaw

Founder Trustee

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Orchestra Music - parts and score

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