Antalya State Symphony Orchestra (ADSO) was founded in 1995 as Antalya Chamber

Orchestra with İnci Özdil as the first conductor. Shortly after, since the chamber orchestra did

not meet the demand for our region and our orchestra, the need for a symphony orchestra status

arose. As a result of the efforts of State Artist Prof. Gürer AYKAL and founding director

Numan Pekdemir, the status and name of the orchestra was changed to Antalya State Symphony

Orchestra in 1997 by the decision of the Council of Ministers and it started its artistic life.

Since 2018, Oğuzhan KAVRUK has been the first conductor of Antalya State

Symphony Orchestra.

Antalya State Symphony Orchestra, which has an important place in the cultural life of

Antalya, has played an important role in the promotion of our country considering the touristic

features of the region.

Today, ADSO, one of the largest and most important art institutions of our country with

a staff of 86 artists, has achieved significant success in the field of polyphonic music and has

reached a level to compete with well-established art institutions in the world.

Since 1995, Antalya State Symphony Orchestra has carried out important activities to

promote, encourage, endear and develop the polyphonic music culture primarily in Antalya and

the Mediterranean Region and increasingly throughout Turkey and to spread it throughout the

country. While carrying out these activities, it attaches particular importance to the works of

our highly valuable Turkish composers and frequently performs the works of our Turkish

composers in its programs. The first performances / world premieres of many the works of our

Turkish composers were performed by Antalya State Symphony Orchestra.

ADSO successfully represents the Republic of Turkey with its high artistic level in

national and international festivals.

In 2015, he recorded the A.Pars piano concerto and his 3rd Symphony with State artist

İdil Biret, and in 2019, he recorded the live performances of My Mother Persia with Alexander

Rahbari on CD and they were sold by the Naxos company.

Antalya State Symphony Orchestra has been conducted by valuable Turkish orchestra

conductors such as State Artist Hikmet Şimşek, State Artist Gürer Aykal, Rengim Gökmen,

Oğuzhan Kavruk, Orhun Orhon, Oğuzhan Balcı, Hasan Niyazi Tura, Tolga Taviş, Cem Mansur,

Betim Güneş, Emin Güven Yaşlıçam, İbrahim Yazıcı, Hakan Şensoy, Orhan Şallıel, Erol

Erdinç, Cemi’i Can Deliorman, as well as world-renowned conductors such as Michel

Tabachnik, Howard Griffiths, Leonard Slatkin, Alexander Rahbari, Lior Schambadal, Antonio

Pirolli, Vladimir Altschuler, Tulio Gagliardo Varas, Daniel Smith, Marzena Diakun, Wojitec

Rodek, Benoit Fromanger, Theodore Kuchar, Isabel Rubio, Fahrettin Kerimov, Matthew

Coorey, Alessandro Cedrone, Emil Tabakov, Marek Pijarowski.

Our orchestra has successfully accompanied world-famous soloists such as; State Artist

Idil Biret, State Artist Gulsin Onay, State Artist Suna Kan, State Artist Rusen Gunes, Verda

Erma, Ayla Erduran, Fazil Say, Aysegul Sarica, Huseyin Sermet, Cihat Askin, Kerem Gorsev,

Jose Careras, Natalia Gutman, Michel Camilo, Juliette Hurel, Hagai Shaham, Vaclav Hudacek,

Marin Geras, Liana Isakadze, Konstantin Kulka, Alexander Markov, Julian Rachlin, Alexander

Rudin, Jiri Barta, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Massimo Quarta, Ilya Grubert, Sara Ferrandez,

Gheorge Zamfir, Michel Camilo, Radovan Vladkovic, Roby Lakatos, Gilles Apap, Marc

Sabbah, Veriko Tchumburidze, Aniello Desidero, Alexander Bader, Tatjana Masurenko, Aaron

Pilsan, Svetlin Roussev, Martin Kofler, Soyoung Yoon, Thorwald Jorgensen, Martynas He

Levickis and Sarah Brightman.

While performing the most distinguished examples of polyphonic music and hosting the

greatest artists, our orchestra also gives great value and importance to young Turkish artists and

supports them. In addition, in order to contribute to the polyphonic music repertoire, it

commissions new works, performs their first performances and volunteers in the finals of well-

established composition competitions.

Antalya State Symphony Orchestra will continue its cultural, artistic and educational

services for a bright future as long as it exists, on the path of modernization shown by the Great

Leader Atatürk.