Effective period / Period of releases: 1917 - 2023

Members: Evan Wilson, Buell Neidlinger, Samuel Mayes, Richard Burgin, Alfred Krips, Joseph De Pasquale, Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux, Richard Sher, Lukas Foss, Jason Snider, Richard Mackey, Joseph Singer, Joel Smirnoff, Ilan Volkov, Walter Trampler, James Levine (2), Jason Horowitz, Fenwick Smith, Thomas Gauger, James Sommerville, Jacques Zoon, Joseph Silverstein, Tim Morrison (2), James Stagliano, Stephanie Fong, David Ohanian, Rolf Smedvig, Norman Bolter, Stephen Geber, Bernard Kadinoff, Max Winder, Tamara Smirnova, Raphael Hillyer, Winifred Mayes, Ann Hobson, Jay Wadenpfuhl, Daniel Banner, Sherman Walt, James Markey, Paul Fried (2), Laurence Thorstenberg, Harold Farberman, Fred Fradkin, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Jules Eskin, Charles Smith (6), Everett Firth, Arthur Press, Burton Fine, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Emanuel Boder, Martin Hoherman, Sato Knudsen, Haldan Martinson, Ronan Lefkowitz, Norman Carol, Elizabeth Rowe, Sam Franko, Edwin Barker, Enrique Fernández Arbós, Lila Brown, Harold Wright, Theodore Cella, Alfred Genovese, Joseph Hearne, Vincent Mauricci, Patricia McCarty, Darlene Gray, Marylou Speaker, Max Hobart, Jerome Rosen, Harvey Seigel, Bo Youp Hwang, Mark Kroll, Cecylia Arzewski, Emanuel Borok, Pasquale Cardillo, Daniel Katzen, Amnon Levy, Daniel Bauch, Gustav Strube, Armando Ghitalla, John Sant'Ambrogio, Ralph Gomberg, Fredy Ostrovsky, Einar Hansen, Alfred Schneider, Vladimir Resnikoff, Sheldon Rotenberg, James Pappoutsakis, Minot Beale, Roger Shermont, George Zazofsky, Leo Panasevich, Stanley Benson, Rolland Tapley, Gottfried Wilfinger, Noah Bielski, Herman Silberman, Henry Portnoi, Jascha Silberstein, Nisanne Howell, Wayne Rapier, Frank Epstein, Georges Moleux, Nurit Bar-Josef, Jessica Zhou, Leone Buyse, Thomas Rolfs, Reuben Green, Roger Voisin, Berj Zamkochian, Bernard Zighera, Robert Karol, Albert Bernard, Lawrence Wolfe, Harry Ellis Dickson, Richard Sebring, Giuseppe Campanari, Avron Twerdowsky, Joel Moerschel, Si-Jing Huang, Mark Ludwig (2), Ronald Barron, Charles Schlueter, Charles Kavalovski, Peter Chapman (5), Manuel Valerio, Owen Young, Mihail Jojatu, William Gibson (3), Kauko Kahila, Andre Come, Willis Page, Gabriel Bartold, Harry Shapiro (2), William Shisler, Michel Sasson, Gino Cioffi, Luis Leguia, Jerome Patterson, Jonathan Menkis, Richard Ranti, Robert Sheena, Carol Procter, John Salkowski, Wendy Putnam, Scott Andrews (4), Martha Babcock, Aza Raykhtsaum, Craig Nordstrom, Ronald Wilkinson, Nicole Monahan, Douglas Yeo, Elizabeth Ostling, Elita Kang, Geralyn Coticone, Thomas Martin (6), Valeria Kuchment, Joseph Pietropaolo, Jonathan Miller (9), Andrew Pearce (2), Edward Gazouleas, Nancy Bracken, Gregg Henegar, Dennis Roy, John Stovall, James Orleans, James Cooke (2), Keisuke Wakao, Robert Barnes (2), Chester Schmitz, Mark McEwen (2), Michael Zaretsky, Joseph McGauley, Lucia Lin, Victor Romanul, Bonnie Bewick, Roland Small, Rachel Fagerburg, Ronald Knudsen, Robert Olson, Kazuko Matsusaka, Todd Seeber, J. William Hudgins, Timothy Genis, Ronald Feldman, Jennie Shames, Otto Urack, Lois Schaefer, Paul Keaney, Josef Orosz, William Moyer, Kilton Vinal Smith, Harold Meek, Peter Hadcock, Georges Miquelle, Ayrton Pinto, Adam Esbensen, Thomas van Dyck, Gerard Goguen, Raymond Allard, Felix Winternitz, Phillip Kaplan, James Burton (4), Victor Yampolsky, Michael Martin (11), Georges Laurent, Christopher Kimber, Felix Viscuglia, William Stokking, Eugene Lehner, Stephen Lange, Jennifer Nitchman, Charles Yancich, Steven Emery, Karl Rissland, Konosuke Ono, Roger Kaza, Malcolm Lowe, Michael Winter (6), Alexandre Lecarme, Tatiana Dimitriades, Toby Oft, Alexander Velinzon, Blaise Dejardin, Glen Cherry, Sheila Fiekowsky, Ikuko Mizuno, Xin Ding, Cynthia Meyers, Rebecca Gitter, Gerald Elias, Peter Gordon (8), Hugh A. Cowden, Julius Schulman (2), Yuncong Zhang, Colin Davis (6), Yizhak Schotten, Alfred Zighera, William R. Hudgins, John Ferrillo, Steven Ansell (2), Cathy Basrak, Sue-Ellen Hirshman-Tcherepnin, Samuel Roens, Ernst Panenka, Attilio Poto, Richard Svoboda, Emil Kornsand, Vyacheslav Uritsky, Catherine French, Gordon Hallberg, Matthew Ruggiero, John Holmes (20), Mickey Katz (2), Benjamin Wright (3), Leah Ferguson, Richard Czerwonky, Marcel LaFosse, Julianne Lee (2), Bracha Malkin, Ala Jojatu, Oliver Aldort, Rebekah Edewards, Daniel Getz (2), Danny Kim (3), Benjamin Levy (2), Suzanne Nelsen, Clint Foreman, Michael Wayne (3), Kyle Brightwell, Mark Fabulich, Thomas Siders, Rachel Childers, Matthew McKay (2), Mary Ferrillo, Kathryn Sievers, Lisa Ji Eun Kim, Mike Roylance, Wesley Collins, John Perkel, Sophie Wang, Wallace Goodrich, Andres Vela, Takumi Taguchi, Rosario Mazzeo, Carl Anderson (13), Paul Greitzer, Steven Laraia, Viktor Polatschek, Jacob Raichman, Georges Mager, John Coffey (6), Jerome Rosen (2), Carl Wendling, Elizabeth Ostling Klein, Andrew Sandwick, Jonah Ellsworth, Will Chow, Leonardo Vásquez Chacón, Victor Polatschek, Boaz Piller, Willem Valkenier, William Gebhardt

US American symphony orchestra, founded in 1881 by Henry Lee Higginson, currently based at the Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. It first played at Boston Music Hall (now Orpheum Theatre).

Music Directors:
George Henschel (1881–1884)
Wilhelm Gericke (1884–1889)
Arthur Nikisch (1889–1893)
Emil Paur (1893–1898)
Wilhelm Gericke (1898–1906)
Karl Muck (1906–1908)
Max Fiedler (1908–1912)
Karl Muck (1912–1918)
Henri Rabaud (1918–1919)
Pierre Monteux (1919–1924)
Serge Koussevitzky (1924–1949)
Charles Munch (1949–1962)
Erich Leinsdorf (1962–1969)
William Steinberg (1969–1972)
Seiji Ozawa (1973–2002)
James Levine (2004–2011)
Andris Nelsons (2014–present)