Friends and Partners of the GSO
Other student/community GSOs
Washington Metro GSO
The Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra is a community orchestra and choir whose mission is to share and celebrate video game music with a wide audience by putting on affordable, accessible concerts in the Washington, D.C., area.
Baltimore GSO
We are a community orchestra that seeks to enrich, entertain, and educate the Baltimore & Maryland Community through the use of music from video games.
Game Music Ensemble at UCLA
The student-run orchestra, choir, and chamber ensembles at UCLA dedicated to performing and celebrating original video game music.
8-bit Orchestra at UD
We are a Student Organization at the University of Delaware that is dedicated to playing music from video games. We are a full orchestra that play everything from indie games all the way to the orchestral stylings of Final Fantasy.
New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey's premiere community-based video game music orchestra & choir. Since 2014, we've performed arrangements from dozens of beloved videogames.
Greater Philadelphia Gamer Symphony Orchestra
In 2025, the Greater Philadelphia Gamer Symphony Orchestra was founded in the Philly area dedicated to performing music from video games.
Video Game Music Ensemble @UCF
Founded in 2023, the Video Game Music Ensemble @UCF is a student-led ensemble from a wide variety of video games, old and new. The ensemble aims to bring students together with their love of music from video games.
Twin Cities Gamer Symphony Orchestra
University of Richmond Video Game Orchestra
MIT Video Game Orchestra
Video Game Cover Collective
Founded in 2023, the Video Game Cover Collective is an Oberlin student organization focused on the arrangement and performance of tracks from video game soundtracks. VGCC arrangements are created and performed by students at Oberlin, by the ensemble and for the ensemble!RIT Game Symphony Orchestra
RIT Game Symphony Orchestra is a community of musicians, students, and gamers alike that join together to have fun and perform video game music. Our mission is to create a place where we can share our love of music performance and video games.
Video Game Orchestra at UC Davis
The Video Game Orchestra at UC Davis was started in 2017, with the goal of allowing college musicians to explore the wonders of video game music.
Fredonia Video Game Orchestra
Irish Video Game Orchestra
Press Start
Press Start is NYC's community video game cover orchestra. The musicians are gamers from all over the city playing cherished music from their favorite games for an audience of gamers and musicians alike!
Norwalk Gamer Symphony Orchestra
The Norwalk Gamer Symphony Orchestra is an audition-free community orchestra based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Founded in 2016, the NGSO has grown from a small collective of musicians into a fully-fledged orchestra with a rather unique instrumentation that services the immediate Norwalk area, as well the surrounding communities.
Des Moines Gamer Symphony Orchestra
Founded by UMGSO alum Aaron Barker, the DMGSO is a full orchestra located in Des Moines, Iowa, that seeks to elevate the genre of video game music and provide a unique opportunity for the community to engage with classical music.
Conventions
All of these are popular local conventions that GSO is associated with.
MAGFest
"In short, MAGFest is a music and video gaming festival run by fans, for fans. In more verbose terms, it's an annual event dedicated to the celebration of video games and video game music. Every year offers 24-hour console, arcade, and PC game rooms, live video game cover bands, a vendors area, and guest speakers from the video game industry and fan scene. It also features a "JamSpace" available to all attendees for impromptu music performances. Numerous other events are scheduled each day."
GSO has attended and tabled MAGFest since MAGfest 7, had a panel titled "Orchestral Game Music & Society", and performed our arrangement of "The Promised Land" for Nobuo Uematsu and The Earthbound Papas at MAGFest X.
Katsucon
Katsucon is a fan convention for multicultural enthusiasts and entertainment. It is an annual three-day event held in or around Washington D.C.
Otakon
Otakon is an annual three-day anime convention held during July/August in Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
SuperSmashCon
Super Smash Con is a video game convention and tournament focused on the Super Smash Bros. series, held in Chantilly, Virginia at the Dulles Expo Center.
Professional organizations
OverClocked Remix
Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Its primary focus is www.ocremix.org, a website featuring thousands of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers, resources for aspiring artists, and a thriving community of video game music fans.
Listen to our arrangement of Still Alive, the first remix of the piece on OCR, titled Live from [SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE], or our arragement from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Hyrulian Highlands. Our newest remix to make it to OCR is our three-piece Katamari Damacy "Prelude, Fugue, and Groove" performance, which happens to be OCR's FIRST Katamari remix!
Video Games Live
Video Games Live (tm) is an immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Top orchestras & choirs perform along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussionists, live action and unique interactive segments to create an explosive entertainment experience!
GSO had its arrangement of Korobeiniki (the "Tetris Opera"), by our own Conductor Emeritus Greg Cox, performed at its Strathmore concert to two sold-out shows in 2011. The performance even included our own former music director Chris Apple as the soloist (which you can watch here). GSO will again be lending a piece to VGL 2012: an as-yet-unnamed Final Fantasy piece. Make sure to attend to find out which one!
Video Game Orchestra
VGO, founded by a Berklee College of Music alumni Shota Nakama, is an orchestra that performs contemporary arrangements of video game music. As the first and only New England based orchestra that focuses on showcasing interactive media compositions, VGO is dedicated to provide access and raise awareness of orchestral video game-related compositions.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GSO has performed to large crowds in the wonderful Kogod Courtyard at the American Art Museum on two seaparate occasions thus far: as part of the Art of Video Games exhibit in Spring 2012 and as part of the Watch This! Revelations in Media Art exhibit in Spring 2015. The museum has always been an incredible host, and we hope to return again!
Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center's page on the GSO. We performed here at the Millenium Stage in 2018 as part of the Direct Current inaugural season.
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