We are the professional musicians who comprise the Seattle Symphony & Opera Orchestras. Our bottom line is our commitment to performing music. There is great joy in creating something together to share with our audience. That’s what our lives are about.

A Message to the City from Demarre McGill

"If everything is crumbling around you, and even if you're physically all alone," McGill says, "The love you have for a person, or for people, or things—like music, like art—has the potential to be the only thing you need when there's the possibility of not having anything at all."

Seattle Symphony Principal Flute Demarre McGill performs Syrinx for solo flute by Claude Debussy written in 1913.