The BSO was founded in 1981 as a result of the Music 81 project of the Victorian Government, and was the successor of the Bendigo Concert Orchestra.
The orchestra occupies a key space in the musical life of the City of Greater Bendigo, with the Mayor of Bendigo as Patron.
Palm Sunday, 2009 Rohan Phillips directs the BSO and Bendigo Chorale in Haydn's Mass in time of War and Schumann's third symphony St Paul's Cathedral, Myer's Street, Bendigo: April 5th, 2009.
