Under the direction of American Prize-winning conductor David Anderson, the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra continues to reach new levels of accomplishment for a community orchestra. In the 2018–19 season, the orchestra completed its nine-year “Beethoven Project” with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, collaborating with 140 singers from the combined college choirs of UW-Whitewater, the University of Northern Iowa, and Moody Bible Institute. In its Music by the Lake performance at Aurora University’s George Williams campus, LGSO became the first community orchestra to perform Disney’s Fantasia with real-time animation. 

LGSO’s outreach in the schools involves two School Day tours and and a private lesson scholarship program for students in Lake Geneva’s instrumental music programs. LGSO invites school music ensembles to perform before LGSO concerts, and offers college music students a scholarship to Lake Geneva to rehearse and perform with the orchestra. Extraordinarily talented student musicians in southeast Wisconsin and northern Illinois compete for the opportunity to perform with the LGSO in the Young Artist Competition.