About Horizon

Built around what
music can do.

Horizon exists at the intersection of artistic formation and audience experience. Two connected expressions of the same belief.

The Initiative

What Horizon is

Horizon is an orchestral initiative founded to create environments where music is genuinely explored: by musicians, conductors, and audiences alike.

It works across two expressions: the Studio, where conductors are formed through real orchestral work; and Horizon Classical, where audiences are invited into something concise, considered, and immersive.

The two share the same question: what does it mean to take music seriously.

The Reason

Why Horizon
exists

Horizon was founded on a clear belief: music can be shared more directly.

Music is worth the time to prepare well, the space to shape carefully, and the intention to share with an audience that genuinely wants to hear it. Horizon tries to create those conditions.

Founder & Inaugural Conducting Fellow

Hans Sangtoki

Hans Sangtoki is an emerging conductor based in Sydney, and the founder of Horizon Orchestral. He is currently the inaugural Honours in Conducting student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Professor Benjamin Northey.

He has participated in masterclasses with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra, and continues his work educating younger generations in orchestral music as Artistic Director of Cantate Deo Youth Orchestra.

Through Horizon Orchestral Studio, Hans is developing a platform for advanced conducting training grounded in real artistic practice: rehearsals with genuine stakes, musicians who are fully engaged, and a process built around formation as much as performance.

Horizon Classical reflects his conviction that concerts can be made differently. Concise, immersive, and designed with the audience at the centre.

Hans Sangtoki
The Belief

What we hold to be true

On music

Music is something to be understood, shaped, and shared. How it is held, and by whom, changes what it can do.

On musicians

Musicians are collaborators. Their genuine presence in the room is what makes the music real.

On conductors

Conducting is a craft that can only be learned through practice. Real rehearsals, real feedback, real orchestras. This is how it develops.

On audiences

People who are genuinely curious deserve a concert designed for them. One that brings them close to the music.

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