The Brockton Symphony Orchestra (BrSO) is a semiprofessional orchestra based in Brockton, Massachusetts founded in 1925 as the Brockton Orchestral Society. Described by the Boston Globe as "one of the region's classical jewels", the orchestra performs five or six concerts each year, including several masterworks concerts and an annual Holiday Pops Concert at venues in Brockton including the Buckley Center for the Performing Arts, Christ Congregational Church, and Brockton High School. In the 1970s, the orchestra also produced original operas and ballets, a tradition it revived with its 2025 production of Carmen. Contemporary works which have been commissioned and premiered by the orchestra include Gardner Read's Vernal Equinox (1955), Beth Denisch's Golden Fanfare (1998), and Thomas Oboe Lee's Sounds of The Islands (2005).
The orchestra is currently music directed by John Masko, who has served since 2023. Its board chair is Susan Caplan. Clarinetist and conductor Jonathan Cohler served as the orchestra's musical director from 1996 to 2006, and James Orent served as music director from 2007 until his death in 2021.
The Brockton Symphony Orchestra also hosts the annual Vasconcellos Youth Competition, offering $1500 in prizes every year to instrumentalists under the age of 18. Winners are invited to play a concerto with the Brockton Symphony Orchestra. Past Winners include Miki Nagahara, Winston Huang, Jaclyn Freshman, Kristhyan Benitez, and Meihui An.
The following is the list of instrumentalists as of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra 2023âÂÂ2024 season.