PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

The Philharmonia Orchestra, founded as a recording orchestra in 1945, has always been innovative in its use of technology to reach a wider audience. It has grown into one of the world’s top international orchestras with a history of legendary recordings and stellar performances by some of the greatest conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries: Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini, and Riccardo Muti, just to name a few. In addition, Philharmonia has premiered works by Richard Strauss, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Errollyn Wallen, Kaija Saariaho, and numerous others.

During the Corona pandemic, the Philharmonia Orchestra managed to create an online concert format which streamed its performances not only to their own home audience, but also to first-time listeners in Brazil, Sudan, Indonesia, India, and north of the Arctic Circle in Norway. 

Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen has been the Philharmonia's chief conductor and artistic director since 2008. His younger compatriot, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, took over as chief conductor in the 2021-2022 season. 

The orchestra consists of 80 musicians from a total of 60 different countries. 

https://philharmonia.co.uk/

ODENSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Odense Symphony Orchestra—one of Denmark's five regional orchestras—was founded in 1946, but its roots date back to around 1800. Starting as a theater orchestra which also played symphonic music, the Odense Symphony has evolved into a modern symphony orchestra that’s very active and always developing.

The orchestra is based in Odense Concert Hall, which was inaugurated in 1982. They play approximately 100 concerts a year with a repertoire that ranges from the baroque to the music of our own time. Touring activity includes major concerts in the United States, China, Germany, Greece, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, five tours in Spain, and two in the former Soviet Union.

Odense Symphony Orchestra has an extensive discography with more than 60 releases—several of which are award-winners—and more still to come! In 2007, a CD with music by American composer Peter Lieberson received an honorary GRAMMY® Award nomination.

www.odensesymfoni.dk

OSLO PHILHARMONIC

Oslo Filharmoniens rødder går tilbage til 1871, hvor Edvard Grieg og Johan Svendsen stiftede Christianias Musikerforening. Igennem årene og gennem Første Verdenskrig, fragmenterede og samlede orkestret sig gentagne gange, indtil det i 1919 stiftede sig som Filharmonisk Selskaps Orkester. Trods de efterfølgende års ækonomiske udfordringer og endnu en verdenskrig, havde orkestret succes med at tiltrække internationale navne, bl.a. Robert Soetens, som Prokofiev skrev sin 2. Violinkoncert til, og Igor Stravinsky, en af datidens mest fremtrænde komponister. I 1979 ændrede orkestret formelt navn til det vi i dag kender, Oslo Filharmonien.

The Oslo Philharmonic, which plays between 60 and 70 concerts in Oslo every year, has a broad symphonic repertoire, plays with internationally renowned soloists and conductors, and tours regularly in Norway and abroad.

Klaus Mäkelä er den nuværende chefdirigent og kunstnerisk rådgiver. Han fik i rekordfart tildelt posten i sæsonen 20/21, i en alder af blot 24 år, og på baggrund af en gæsteoptræden i maj 2018.

www.ofo.no

WDR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

WDR Sinfonieorchester – orkestret fra Köln med sin egen originale lyd – betegnes nemt som et af Europas mest signifikante symfoniorkestre, som naturligt tiltrækker verdens anerkendte dirigenter og solister.

Orkestret er særligt kendt for at udføre musik fra det 20. århundrede, hvor bl.a. Luciano Berio, Hans Werner Henze, Mauricio Kagel, Krzysztof Penderecki, Igor Strawinskij, Karlheinz Stockhausen og Bernd Alois Zimmermann skrev bestillingsværker til WDR. Det store antal fremragende produktioner af samtidsmusik stadfæster kun endnu mere tydeligt WDRs førende position på den klassiske musiks scene.

Den rumænske dirigent og violinist Cristian Măcelaru har siden sæsonen 19/20 været chefdirigent for WDR Sinfornieorchester. Kontrakten blev nyligt forlænget til 2025.

www1.wdr.de/orchester-und-chor

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