Konzerthausorchester Berlin

The Konzerthausorchester Berlin has been under the direction of principal conductor Joana Mallwitz since the 2023/24 season.

She succeeds Christoph Eschenbach, who held this position for four seasons from 2019. As honorary conductor, Iván Fischer, principal conductor from 2012 to 2018, remains closely associated with the orchestra.

Founded in 1952 as the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester (BSO), today’s Konzerthausorchester Berlin gained its decisive profile and international recognition under principal conductor Kurt Sanderling from 1960 to 1977. It received its own venue in 1984 with the reopening of the restored Schauspielhaus on Gendarmenmarkt. Ten years later, the BSO became the official house orchestra of the renamed Konzerthaus Berlin and since 2006 has borne its current name. It performs more than 100 concerts here each season. It also regularly tours and performs at festivals in Germany and abroad. At the Kurt Sanderling Academy, founded in 2010, the musicians train highly gifted young orchestral talent.
Bringing music performed at the highest level to a broad audience is one of the orchestra’s central concerns. To this end, the musicians are involved, for example, in “Mittendrin” (“Right in the Middle”), where the audience is seated next to orchestra members in concerts, in online clip series such as the multi-award-winning #klangberlins and in “Spielzeit” streams on the web platform “twitch”. The orchestra’s deep connection to Berlin is reflected in its diverse educational and social commitments with various partners in the city.

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