Corporate Giving & Sponsorship

For organizations that invest in live orchestral music, it pays substantial dividends in civic pride, cultural advancement, education and personal satisfaction.

The investment also helps you to meet marketing and business objectives through co-branding and advertising with a highly recognized cultural institution.

The RMSO invites you to experience the benefits and opportunities of becoming a corporate partner.

Corporate support can be provided to the RMSO in the following ways.

For more information, please contact fundraising@rmso.ca.

Corporate Sponsorship

Our goal is to create a sponsorship package that is tailor-made to serve your corporate goals. Your company can choose to sponsor an individual performance, a full series, a special concert, education programs, or become an exclusive Season Sponsor. For detailed information on the RMSO’s Sponsorship Program which includes publicity, advertising, complimentary tickets and an opportunity to entertain your guests.

  • Create an incredible evening at the Symphony that your guests will not forget. Customized benefits can include:

    • Complimentary tickets

    • Assistance in planning and organizing pre- and/or post-concert receptions

    • Opportunity to invite guest conductors and guest artists to private receptions

    • Pre-performance talks providing an overview of the evening’s performance

    • Backstage tours for sponsor guests (subject to the number of guests)

    • Opportunity for your employees to purchase tickets for the sponsored concerts at a 25% discount. Your employees will be entitled to a 15% discount on subscription and single ticket purchases throughout the season outside of your sponsored performances, excluding specials

  • Promotional benefits can be tailored to suit the nature of your sponsorship. With 12 concerts per season, and a variety of education and outreach programs, sponsorship with the RMSO offers flexibility and the ability to reach all or segments of the RMSO audience. Marketing opportunities may include:

    • Inserts in RMSO House Programs

    • Product placement

    • Sampling

    • Your company’s alignment with specific areas of the orchestra’s work

    • A unique promotion tailored to your organizational goals

  • As a corporate partner with the RMSO, we will work with you to develop a recognition program that connects your brand to the RMSO and demonstrates your investment in supporting great music. Recognition may include:

    • RMSO Season Brochure

    • Ads and recognition in concert programs

    • Recognition in patron e-mails

    • Press release announcing your support

    • RMSO Website recognition with a direct link to your company website

    • Recognition on video signage in performance venue

    • Verbal announcement of sponsorship before the start of each performance

    • Recognition printed on concert tickets, both digital and in-print (limited availability)

    • Recognition in varying print and digital ads

    • Hosting opportunities and a chance to connect with our musicians

    Contact the Symphony Office by email at fundraising@rmso.ca to discuss specific details and how we can tailor a package to meet your marketing goals and objectives.

Sponsorship Level Packages:

Corporate Gifts

Giving to the Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra is a rewarding tradition that directly connects you to the annual production and presentation of a full season of orchestral concerts, and over a thousand students through our music education programs.

Your investment in the RMSO enriches not only the local economy, but also the quality of life in our area.

The Rocky Mountain Symphony Orchestra depends on corporate support to help ensure:

  • An engaging season of performances of masterworks of the orchestral repertoire as well as new commissions

  • The continuing collaboration of the RMSO with school boards in the Calgary area to provide AB curriculum-based education programs that reach approximately 1,500 students annually

  • The growth of the hugely successful Peak Pass audience-development initiative for hundreds of members under the age of 30

  • New and exciting ventures in the coming years

Contra or Gifts in Kind

The Rocky Mountain Symphony is always open to ideas regarding the exchange of services or product normally associated with annual organizational costs for recognition and benefits for your company listed under Sponsorship. Please contact us for detailed information.