Riverside’s milestone accomplishments include: Numerous premieres of major orchestral works by today’s most important composers, six of them Riverside Symphony commissions; Performances of rarely heard orchestral compositions by such masters as Haydn, Prokofiev, and Ravel; The presentation of more than 50 world-class young soloists, many in their New York orchestral debuts; Seven internationally acclaimed recordings of contemporary orchestral works, one a 2000 Grammy Award nominee; The Riverside Symphony International Composer Reading Project, a forum for composers worldwide, with a special competition for American composers.

From The Press

• “…they produce a tightly focused, fully polished sound that is as good as you’ll hear…” —The New York Times

• “Self-styled ‘classical garage band'” —Time Out New York

• “…the kind of program that should be standard for any first-rate American group.” —The New Yorker

• “Under conductor George Rothman, Riverside Symphony gives awesomely assured performances of this difficult music.” —Fanfare

• “…a typically imaginative program and nourishing music-making for a large audience that clearly appreciates the effort… just the latest reason to be grateful that the Riverside Symphony exists.” —New York Magazine