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Marin Alsop, the new Chief Conductor of the S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra, and Cathy Graham of the British Council discuss the orchestra and its place in Brazilian musical life with Petroc Trelawny.

Founded in 1954, the S茫o Paulo Symphony Orchestra is the leading and largest orchestra in Latin America with 115 musicians and 52 singers. The orchestra performs over 100 concerts every season at its home, the Sala S茫o Paulo, a restored train station, inaugurated in 1999 as a 1500-seat concert hall, and tours throughout Brazil and abroad. It also runs a publishing house dedicated to the works of Brazilian composers, and a composer in residence program, the most recent incumbent of which is Magnus Lindberg. The orchestra is dedicated to musical education - their outreach programmes were attended by 87,000 children and teenagers last year alone.