Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
The Symphoniker Hamburg are a symphony orchestra in Hamburg . They are the residence orchestra of the Laeiszhalle Hamburg (Hamburger Musikhalle). The orchestra's chief conductor is Sylvain Cambreling . Daniel Kühnel is the director.
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The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra regularly gives symphony, children's, chamber and film concerts in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg as well as operas and ballets in the Hamburg State Opera . The orchestra received international recognition through tours to countries such as Japan, USA, Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Scandinavia, Turkey, Poland and China. The popular open-air concerts in the inner courtyard of Hamburg's town hall are always sold out.
Major guest conductors were Charles Mackerras , Christian Thielemann , Peter Ruzicka , Horst Stein , Ralf Weikert and Sebastian Weigle . Some of the most famous soloists, such as Martha Argerich , Daniel Barenboim , Christian Tetzlaff , Elisabeth Leonskaja , Frank Peter Zimmermann , Edita Gruberová , Plácido Domingo and Grace Bumbry , performed with the orchestra.
In the 2019/2020 season, cellist Andrei Ioniță will be the orchestra's Artist in Residence . In 2011/2012 it was the violinist Guy Braunstein , in the 2012/2013 season it was the brothers Markus and Simon Stockhausen .
history
The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1957 by Ernst Markus . The first chief conductor was Robert Heger . István Kertész became the orchestra's permanent guest conductor . The orchestra has been officially recognized as an A-orchestra since January 2010 .
Chief conductor
- Robert Heger (1957-61)
- Gábor Ötvös (1961-67)
- Wilfried Boettcher (1967-71)
- Heribert Beissel (1971-86)
- Carlos Kalmar (1987-92)
- Miguel Gómez Martínez (1992-99)
- Yoav Talmi (1999-2004)
- Andrey Boreyko (2004-2009)
- Jeffrey Tate (2009-2017)
- Sylvain Cambreling (from 2018)