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The TCGSO is a community orchestra which seeks to elevate and share the art of music in video games through local concerts in the greater Twin Cities area.
The Twin Cities Gamer Symphony Orchestra (TCGSO) is a new community orchestra with the goal of elevating and sharing the music of video games in the greater Twin Cities area of Minnesota.
The orchestra was founded in the summer of 2024 by a group of musicians who all met through Gamer’s Rhapsody. TCGSO is a program of Gamer’s Rhapsody, a 501(c)3 Arts Support Organization. Gamer’s Rhapsody is the same organization that plans and runs the video game music convention called VGM Con. TCGSO puts on two video game music concerts per year for the community that are accessible and affordable.
Gamer’s Rhapsody, VGM Con, and TCGSO help foster the ever-growing community of people who perform, arrange, design, compose or appreciate the music of video games.
TCGSO was the vision of Ken Schuster and Vaughn Rowles, two string players, board members of Gamer’s Rhapsody and lifelong lovers of video game music. They approached a few musicians in the community from Gamer’s Rhapsody to gauge their interest in helping create a community orchestra. Our first committee meeting happened in July of 2024 at Blue Tree Music Education in Minneapolis, scheming if this idea was even possible. Soon we had a seven-member board and lots of big ideas. We put out the word to gather musicians and had our first jam session together reading lead sheets. In October, we had our first rehearsal at Humboldt High School in St. Paul and in January of 2025 we had our first ever concert. The idea came to life! With 62 musicians on our team, we put on our first concert titled Power: On.
