As a non-profit association, the Academic Orchestra is committed to student music-making; in addition to students from a wide range of disciplines, it also consists of numerous alumni and other academics.
[1] Since 1956, the orchestra has performed the so-called Academic Concerts six times a year.
[2] From the 1990s until 2010, the Academic Orchestra organised the annual matriculation ceremony of the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences.
Since 1990, the Academic Orchestra has toured abroad to France, Austria, Spain, Italy, Norway, Canada, the US and Japan.
Before the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, foreign tours led to Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.