Conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius established a group of young musicians in 1988 and organized the first concert audience on January 30th, 1989. With the unfading energy, original programs, and great mastery the orchestra entered to Lithuanian cultural life and was named the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra on January 30, 1999. Celebrating ten years anniversary of creative work the orchestra played its first concert in the new 1000 seats Vilnius Congress Concert Hall, the largest metropolitan academic concert hall.

This team has developed its own traditions, whose essential features - special birthday Orchestra, the season beginning and the end of concerts, unique thematic programs, Lithuanian symphonic scores premieres, concert and stage opera performances. The orchestra was warmly welcomed by the audiences from many countries, the critics estimated postively about the orchestra. Each season the orchestra adds to the growing repertoire new songs and symphonic works of the world's gold fund, as well as the newly developed symphonic canvases. For Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra unique mission and exlusive event was to performe all G. Mahler and L. Beethoven symphonies.

The orchestra’s intensive life is testified by impressive numbers of concerts. Today we played more than 1,000 concerts in Lithuania and abroad: France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, Great Britain, Taiwan and so on. Participated in prestigious festivals as the Warsaw Autumn, Europamusicale Munich, Estoril Coast in Portugal, Santa Cruz and Santander in Spain, Switzerland Nijono, Chichester and festivals in the UK. Along with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra regularly performs world music stars such as M. Salminen, V. Urmanavičiūtė-Urmana, S. Larin, V. Tretyakov, D. Goering, D. SITKOVETSKY, M. Shostakovich, B. Maisuradze, A. Vedernikovas, N. Petrov, R. Gothoni, R. Muraro, P. Donohoe.

A rich repertoire of symphonic music supplements with the expressive stage works list. This team has produced and performed more than 15 operas (and the concert, and theatrical stagings), which are difficult to score, R. Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman" (1995, performing at the National Opera) and "Parsifal" (2004, premiered in Lithuania), R. Strauss' "Salome" (1997, performing at the National Opera), G. Puccini's "Tosca" (1996) and Turandot (1999), G. Verdi's "Othello" and "Simon Boccanegra" (2001), P. Tchaikovsky's "Queen of Spades" (2005), W. A. Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (2006), D. Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (2006), a semi-scenic J. Juzeliūnas opera "The Game" premiere (2007). After cooperate with director D. Ibelhauptaitė and costume designer J. Statkevičius Vilnius Congress Concert Hall built at least one new opera performance: G. Puccini's "La Boheme" (2006), W. A. Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (2007), J. Massenet "Werther" (2008), in the same year resumed R. Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" performance, in 2009 for the first time was built S. Sondheim's musical "Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber“.

Successful and intensive activities of orchestra was registered in numbers of recordings. The orchestra was the first orchestra in Lithuanian music history which swing to spend all of G. Mahler's symphonic works. In 2006 the Orchestra got the international recognition and accreditation for it‘s great artictics works. It was Japanese government cultural support - more than 1 million litas for new musical instruments.