[5] Jorgensen played and led the MSO under conductors, including Eugene Goossens, Walter Susskind, Rafael Kubelík, Malcolm Sargent and Thomas Beecham.

[7] In 1954 she considered Argentine conductor Juan José Castro to be the best musician the MSO had worked with, because "every member of the orchestra felt that he knew the whole score, and not merely his own part".

[11][12] In the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours Jorgensen was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for "service as leader of the Victorian Symphony Orchestra".

[1] The University of Melbourne awards an annual scholarship, named the Bertha Jorgensen Exhibition, to the "most outstanding student of the violin in third or fourth year".

[16] Her alma mater, St Catherine's School, presents the Bertha Jorgensen Prize for Leader of the Orchestra annually.