For many years its artistic director was Imants Resnis (1992–2009), for several seasons it was Atvars Lakstīgala who worked with the orchestra (2009–2016), but since 2017 the artistic director and chief conductor of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra is Gintaras Rinkevicius (Lithuania).
In March 2016, the 24th Liepaja International Stars Festival took place in the Great Amber Concert Hall.
[2] The festival opened on March 5, 2016 under the direction of conductor Matthias Manasi with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra and the piano duo Amal.
[3] In the repertoire politics special attention is paid to Latvian music – the orchestra has repeatedly premiered and commissioned new works.
In recent seasons all the 12 monumental opuses of Liepaja concert series initiated by LSO have been submitted to public and specialist evaluation.