[2] Former music directors have included John Carabella, Rudolf Thomas, Ole Windingstad, Edgar Curtis, Julius Hegyi, and Geoffrey Simon.
[3] The Albany Symphony is unique in its mission statement to perform new works by modern composers, thereby exposing audiences to a new generation of orchestral music.
Conductor David Alan Miller was also nominated that year along with Tessa Lark for a recording of Michael Torke's Sky, Concerto for Violin in the Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo category.
[7][8][9][3] The orchestra has won 26 awards from the American Society of Composers and Performers (ASCAP) for adventurous programming.
[4] In Hernan Diaz's 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Trust, the Albany Symphony Orchestra is said to have been first endowed by the music-loving wife of the novel's fictional billionaire.