[1] Its first concert was performed on 24 October 1923, with the program being Lisinski's overture from the opera Porin; Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No.

Mozart's Requiem was performed, and Zubin Mehta conducted the concert with soloists José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Cecilia Gasdia and Ildikó Komlósi.

The Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra visited and organized concerts in several cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1997, by the invitation of UNESCO's Director-General, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra went to Paris and performed a concert there.

In 1998 the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Ravenna, and in 1999, in the United States and Netherlands; in the summers of 1998 and 1999, the orchestra collaborated with the music academy AIDIMOS and its director, German conductor Ernst Schelle, touring around all the main cities of Bosnia with conductors and additional musicians from amongst others, Albania, Austria, Croatia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.