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Well, you could, I suppose, just send a copy of your music to an orchestra/chamber ensemble. But unless you have some kind of reputation already it's unlikely they would just decide to perform it like that. Maybe an amateur or college orchestra would read through it at a rehearsal if you were connected to them, or some friends might. Let me tell you how it was for me. At university I took composition as part of my studies. During the course, I had pieces I had written for my studies played by musicians in workshops and concerts at the university. Then I showed an orchestration of a piece by Dvorak I had made to a friend who conducted one of the orchestras there, and he liked it and agreed to perform it in a concert. The rest of the orchestra and the audience liked it too, so people now knew I was interested in composing and orchestrating. After this I composed a piece for myself to perform in my final recital, so more people heard my music, including another friend who is also a conductor. He asked me to make an arrangement of a popular Christmas carol which his choir and orchestra (I play in it) performed in a concert, and after that he liked my music so he asked me to write a cantata for the choir, which I am writing at the moment. Two other friends whom I knew from before university asked about what I did there, I told them about my composition and they looked at my scores and listened to recordings. So they also asked me to write pieces and make arrangements for their orchestras and for their students. At the same time I entered a competition and had my piece performed in the final which was a public concert by the orchestra. I also play piano for a choir of my own, so I will show the conductor of that my music and persuade him to perform it. So as you can see, I got music performed mostly because I met people who were in charge of orchestras and showed them my scores. Once one person likes your music this will persuade others to take an interest and so gradually more and more people hear of you. Note that all of this came from the fact I was performing for these people as well so they knew who I was already and knew of my experience as a musician. So if you get involved in performance you can make yourself know to people who might play your music and have a way of asking them.