Thanks to a series of key accomplishments, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra saw strong financial results for its 2023-24 fiscal year, which ended in August.
The organization achieved balanced budgets for the last 10 years and saw record revenue and gains in audiences over the last 12 months. In fact, the orchestra exceeded revenue targets in every category, and ticket revenue for the Delta Classical Series reached an all-time high with a record number of new audience members and 13 sold-out performances.
Among the highlights were lauded programs with music director Nathalie Stutzmann, the French conductor in her second year at the helm; plus programs with star soprano Renee Fleming, legendary pianists Maria Joao Pires and Daniil Trifonov, an all-Dvorak program recorded in concert for release on Warner Classics; and the world-renowned Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
Additionally, a work by composer Tyshawn Sorey, Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith), which was commissioned and premiered by the ASO, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music—a first for the ASO.
The ASO also won its first Emmy Award this June for full-length arts and entertainment feature at the Southeastern Emmy Awards ceremony, for the docu-concert, My Bolero with Nathalie Stutzmann.
“On all fronts, last season was a great one at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, with memorable musical moments, important new partnerships, and watershed financial achievements,” Jennifer Barlament, executive director of the ASO said. “Ten years in the black, record numbers of new audiences, a tour, recording, an Emmy and a Pulitzer are all big accomplishments—and to see them all in the same year is remarkable. We have a lot to celebrate.”
Photo: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and its audience. Photo courtesy of the ASO.
