• Public Outreach

The OSiUP Concerts

The Paris Inter-University Symphony Orchestra (OSiUP) hosted by the Faculty of Sciences and Engineering of Sorbonne University invites you to its series of end-of-second-semester concerts. On the program, Dvorak's cello concerto, Elgar's Cockaigne overture and Gershwin's An American in Paris.

  • On June 19th

  • 20:30
  • Concert
  • Amphithéâtre 25, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie

    4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris

Présentation

Founded in 1972 by students and professors from the Universities of Paris 6 and Paris 7, the Paris Inter-University Symphony Orchestra (OSIUP) today brings together students, teachers, and various staff from Parisian universities as well as many other instrumentalists from various backgrounds. The association is administered, according to the “association 1901” law, by the musicians of the orchestra. Christophe Dilys has been the musical director for the orchestra since September 2020. Rehearsals take place on Wednesday evenings, from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., and one Sunday per month, at Sorbonne University in amphitheater 25 of the Pierre and Marie Curie campus.

On the program for the first-semester concert series:

  • Antonín Dvořák: Concerto for violoncello
  • Edward Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
  • George Gershwin: An Américain in Paris

The soloist of the cello concerto is Baptiste Dayre, doctoral student at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sorbonne University.

The Concert is free, no registration necessary.

In addition to the concert organized on the Pierre and Marie Curie campus, this program will also be performed on the following dates:

  • Saturday June 22 at 8 p.m. in the Saint-Martin-des-Champs Church, 36 rue Albert Thomas, Paris 10th
  • Monday June 24 at 8 p.m. in the Saint-Marcel Church, 82 boulevard de l'Hôpital, Paris 13th

For more information

  1. The OSiUP site