Largest orchestra
Who
El Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela
What
8,573 people
Where
Venezuela (Caracas)
When

The largest orchestra consists of 8,573 musicians and was achieved by El Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (Venezuela), in Caracas, Venezuela, on 13 November 2021.


El Sistema is a National Institution of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs of Venezuela for the collective and individual practice and instruction of music through symphony orchestras and choirs.

The orchestra was composed by piccolos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, cornets, trumpets, trombones, tubas, violins, among other instruments. The musicians aged between 12 and 77, playing a piece by Tchaikovsky: the Slavic March.