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Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St Clair, is the largest orchestra formed in the United States in the last 40 years, and is recognised as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene as well as in its own community of Southern California. Pacific Symphony offers moving musical experiences with repertoire ranging from the great orchestral masterworks to music from today’s most prominent composers, highlighted by the annual American Composers Festival and a series of multimedia concerts called “Music Unwound.” Pacific Symphony is dedicated to developing and promoting today’s composers and expanding the orchestral repertoire—illustrated through its many commissions and recordings, in-depth explorations of American artists and themes at the American Composers Festival. The symphony’s innovative approaches to new works received the ASCAP Award for Adventuresome Programming in 2005 and 2010. In 2010, Pacific Symphony was named one of five orchestras profiled by the League of American Orchestras in a study on innovation. Since 2006, the symphony has performed in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, designed by Cesar Pelli with acoustics by Russell Johnson. In March 2006, the symphony embarked on its first European tour—receiving an unprecedented 22 rave reviews.