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DOSNY 2025/26 Season - Save the Dates!

DOSNY 2025/26 Season - Save the Dates!

Join us for our 2025-2026 season

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Interested instrumentalists: Email playwithdosny@gmail.com

  • December 18th, 2025

    High School of Fashion Industries (225 W 24th St)

    Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition

    Mieczysław Weinberg - Trumpet Concerto with Andrew Balio (Principal Trumpet, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)

    Tchaikovsky - Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem

    March 12th, 2026

    Church of St. Francis Xavier (46 W 16th St)

    Brahms - Symphony No. 3

    June 11th, 2026

    High School of Fashion Industries (225 W 24th St)

    and

    June 18th, 2026

    Church of St. Francis Xavier (46 W 16th St)

    Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

Past Concerts

Meet our Music Director

Tomo Matsuo

Tomo Matsuo is a conductor with a diverse professional background spanning music and leadership in other fields. He serves as Music Director of the Doctors' Orchestra (Doctors' Orchestral Society of New York) and is the Conductor and Music Director Designate of the World Civic Orchestra. Previously, he was Music Director of the 92Y Orchestra, affiliated with the 92nd Street Y organization and New York City’s oldest community-based orchestra. Tomo has conducted at venues including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall in New York, and Zeneakadémia in Budapest. His programming reflects a commitment to both classical repertoire and contemporary music, with recent performances featuring works by composers such as Kevin Puts, Gregory Vajda, and Robert Sirota.

 

Celebrating our 87th season

DOSNY was founded in 1938 by physicians interested in performing symphonic music under the direction of Ignatz Waghalter. In recent years it has added community musicians representing the diverse professions in the New York metropolitan area.

The Doctors’ Orchestra performs four to six concerts annually, often donating its services for benefits. Depending on the music, the orchestra performs concerts with between 50 and 60 members. The orchestra has performed in New York’s major concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Town Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.

Meet the Team

  • Charles Shafran

    PRESIDENT

  • Terry Schwadron

  • Karen Claman

  • Charissa Smith

  • Emily Claman

    ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

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