In 2008-2009, the Madison Symphony Orchestra celebrates fifteen years under the dynamic artistic leadership of Music Director John DeMain with a Signature Season. After 83 years in the community, the orchestra has grown to be one America's leading regional orchestras. DeMain, hailed as a "gifted orchestra builder" by the New York Times continues to expand the orchestra's programming with performances of some of the most challenging works in the repertoire.

The mission of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc. is to produce high quality concertts of orchestral, instrumental, vocal, and choral music, to educate and entertain audiences of all ages in the Madison area and beyond, and to advocate music as a universal language of expression and understanding.