The Salt Lake Symphony was founded in 1976 and is a volunteer orchestra that performs in the Libby Gardner Concert Hall in

Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Sal ...

. The Salt Lake Symphony is best known for its yearly Vienna Ball Gala on

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each year. The orchestra's season generally consists of ten unique performances. The Salt Lake Symphony is one of the area's volunteer driven orchestras. The Salt Lake Symphony is a non-profit organization performing classical music concerts for the

Wasatch Front The Wasatch Front is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah. It consists of a chain of contiguous cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from approximately Provo in the south to Logan in the nort ...

community. The approximately seventy-five musicians of the SLS volunteer roughly 10,000 hours annually to accomplish this goal. Robert Baldwin has served as music director and conductor since 2005. He also serves as Director of Orchestral Activities at the

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