At Symphonova®, we are redefining how symphonic music is conceived, rehearsed, performed, and experienced. As musicians, we seamlessly blend cutting-edge technologies into our performances and recordings. We also offer these innovations to visionary conductors and composers, empowering them to join us in shaping the future of symphonic music.
Our flagship innovation, the Symphonova instrument, integrates advanced hardware and software to authentically replicate the sound and expressive power of a full symphony orchestra. Conductors, whether performing solo or alongside a small ensemble, gain precise control over the timing and expression of virtual instruments. The Symphonova opens up new horizons for composing, rehearsing, performing, and experiencing orchestral music, offering unmatched versatility and creative potential.
Key Benefits:
Developed and refined through years of performances and recordings, the Symphonova is not just a technological marvel – it’s a powerful solution to many of the challenges faced by composers, conductors, and performers of orchestral music. By seamlessly bridging traditional orchestral practices with cutting-edge innovation, we aim to elevate the art of orchestral music to new heights.
Join the Symphonova Community: We are actively seeking forward-thinking conductors and composers to participate in our ongoing beta testing program. If you’re passionate about pushing the boundaries of orchestral music, we invite you to connect with us and discover the possibilities of Symphonova™.
We create orchestral experiences our audiences can’t find anywhere else, performing new works envisioned for Symphonova’s unique capabilities, and promoting high quality but forgotten repertoire.
Symphonova specialises in making high quality orchestral recordings of concert repertoire and for media.
The MicroSymphonova conducting system empowers conductors with a revolutionary tool to rehearse the most complex scores.
Symphonova technologies include two hardware technologies for sound quality and two software for creating musical expression. A synergistic combination of these enabling technologies endow Symphonova’s conductor and musicians with power to control and shape in real-time the authentic sound and musical expression of a full-sized Symphony orchestra. Depending on the size of the venue and the musical context, we use either the MicroSymphonova or the Symphonova Orchestra.
Symphonova plays a central role in the Reawakening Suppressed Music project, launched in 2014 in collaboration with The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, The Leo Smit Foundation, and Donemus Publishing in the Netherlands. As part of this important initiative, Symphonova records and showcases suppressed orchestral works by Jewish composers persecuted during the Holocaust, alongside other compositions banned for non-musical reasons.
Through a series of international events, we aim to bring this lost music back to life, ensuring that these powerful voices, silenced by oppression, are heard once again.
Abi Boatright is an associate performing arts producer at the Waterford Old Town Hall, as well as a film associate for Double Bit Productions Ltd. Abi is also a student at Queen’s University specializing in Media and Performance Production.
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Abigail Dolan is co-founder and CEO of Symphonova, bringing to the project her leadership skills, background in performance studies and extensive experience as a concert flautist.
Abigail received her PhD from King’s College London. Her research examines musical performance from both a historical and cognitive perspective. Her work has been awarded the AVI Fellowship and the Edison Fellowship of the British Library Sound Archive.
Abigail founded and served as Artistic Director of the Intimate Engagements chamber-music concert series at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. She was elected a Fellow Commoner in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the College life.
Abigail has performed solo and in chamber music ensembles at international festivals and concert venues worldwide. Her discography includes French repertoire programmes (Selena label), Michael Wolpe’s flute concerto (Memus publication) and works by composers Andre Hajdu and Yinam Leef. Concerto performances include Nielsen’s concerto and her arrangement for flute of Mendelssohn’s violin concerto (the Symphonova Orchestra), Partos’ flute concerto (Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra) and Ben-Haim’s Divertimento Concertante (Kaprizma Ensemble). Her repertoire extends from classical concerti and chamber works to today’s music, with an increasing number of pieces written for and dedicated to her.
Goran Tchubrilo is fascinated by Symphonova’s unique concept of integrating musicians with the most recent developments in music technology, as well as by the new opportunities that open-up to composers, performers, and in the concert arena in general. He was trained as a composer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz in Austria. In 2005 he started his training in sample based music production, with Vienna Symphonic Library as his main (but not only) area of interest. He is also the author and lecturer of the Art of VSL, an online learning platform for VSL libraries and software.
