List of orchestras
Well-known symphony orchestras and chamber orchestras of classical music are on this list . Some orchestras are listed twice, depending on how their names are spelled.
For the area of early music see list of baroque interpreters ; for an entertainment orchestra see Big Band . See also: List of youth orchestras .
A.
- Abaco Orchestra (Munich)
- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (London)
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
- Academic Orchestra Leipzig
- Academic Symphony Orchestra Munich
- Amati Ensemble Munich (chamber orchestra)
- American Composers Orchestra (New York)
- American Symphony Orchestra (New York)
- Ambassade Orchestra Vienna
- Anima Eterna Brugge
- Armenian-Turkish Youth Orchestra
- Asian Youth Orchestra
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Augsburg Philharmonic
- Austrian Festival Symphony Orchestra
B.
- Bach Collegium Stuttgart
- Bach Orchestra in Leipzig
- Baden-Baden Philharmonic
- Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim
- Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe
- Bad Reichenhaller Philharmonic
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Baltic Philharmonic (Gdansk)
- Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
- Basel Sinfonietta
- Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic (Augsburg)
- Bavarian Chamber Orchestra Bad Brückenau
- Bavarian State Youth Orchestra
- Bavarian State Orchestra (Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera Munich)
- Bayer Philharmonic (Leverkusen)
- BBC Concert Orchestra (London)
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Cardiff)
- BBC Philharmonic (Manchester)
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Glasgow)
- BBC Symphony Orchestra (London)
- Beethoven Orchestra Bonn
- Bergische Symphoniker (Remscheid and Solingen)
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Berlin Symphony Orchestra
- Bern Chamber Orchestra
- Bern Symphony Orchestra
- Bielefeld Philharmonic
- Bilkent Symphony Orchestra (Ankara)
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Blutenburg Chamber Philharmonic Munich
- Bochum Symphony Orchestra
- Classical Philharmonic Bonn
- Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra
- Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra
- Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder)
- Braunschweig State Orchestra
- Bremen Chamber Orchestra
- Bremen Philharmonic
- Bruckner Orchestra Linz
- Brussels Philharmonic
- Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
- Budapest Symphony Orchestra
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Federal Youth Orchestra (Bonn)
- Orchestra of the Citizens Singers Guild Munich
C.
- Cairo Symphony Orchestra
- Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
- Camerata Bern
- Camerata Klaipeda
- Camerata Salzburg
- Camerata Zurich
- Cappella Istropolitana
- Chamber Orchestra of Europe (London)
- Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- Cleveland Orchestra
- Collegium Aureum (Cologne)
- Collegium Musicum Basel
- Columbia Symphony Orchestra
- Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam)
- Chernivtsi Philharmonic
D.
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Copenhagen)
- The New Orchestra (Cologne)
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen
- German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
- German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate (Ludwigshafen am Rhein)
- German Film Orchestra Babelsberg (Potsdam)
- German Symphony Orchestra Berlin
- Dortmund Philharmonic
- Dresden Kapellolisten
- Dresden Philharmonic
- Dresden Symphony Orchestra
- Duisburg Philharmonic
- Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
E.
- Eastman Wind Ensemble (Rochester)
- Eesti Riiklik Sümfooniaorkester (Tallinn)
- Elbland Philharmonic Saxony (Riesa)
- English Chamber Orchestra (London)
- Ensemble 13 (Baden-Baden)
- Ensemble Avantgarde (Leipzig)
- Ensemble intercontemporain (Paris)
- Ensemble l'Itinéraire (Paris)
- Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt am Main)
- ensemble recherche (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg)
- Erzgebirgische Philharmonie Aue
F.
- Festival Strings Lucerne
- Filarmonica “Arturo Toscanini” from Parma
- Film Symphony Orchestra (Prague)
- Florida Orchestra (Tampa)
- Ford Symphony Orchestra (Cologne)
- Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra
- Frankfurt Orchestra Society
- Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra
- Franz Lehár Orchestra (Vienna)
- French Chamber Philharmonic
G
H
- Hallé Orchestra (Manchester)
- Hamburger Camerata
- Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
- Haydn Orchestra from Bolzano and Trento
- Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra
- HET Symfonieorkest (Enschede)
- Hof Symphony Orchestra
- Hofkapelle Stuttgart
- Holst-Sinfonietta (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
- Houston Symphony Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (Frankfurt am Main)
- Hyōgo Performing Arts Center Orchestra (Nishinomiya)
I.
- I Musici (Rome)
- I Musici de Montréal (Montreal)
- I Solisti Veneti (Venice)
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Iraqi Youth Orchestra (Arbil, Northern Iraq)
- Irish Chamber Orchestra (Limerick)
- Icelandic Symphony Orchestra (Reykjavík)
- Israel Chamber Orchestra (Tel Aviv-Jaffa)
- Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Tel Aviv)
- Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra
J
- Japan Century Symphony Orchestra (Toyonaka)
- Jena Philharmonic
- Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
- Johann Strauss Ensemble (Linz)
- Johann Strauss Orchestra Salzburg
- Johann Strauss Orchestra Frankfurt
- Johann Strauss Orchestra Leipzig
- Youth Symphony Orchestra, Bern Conservatory
- European Union Youth Orchestra
- Youth symphony orchestra of the Leipzig Music School "Johann Sebastian Bach"
- Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Tonhalle Düsseldorf
- Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Cottbus Conservatory
- Young German Philharmonic (Frankfurt am Main)
- Young Munich Philharmonic
- Young Philharmonic Brandenburg
- Young Philharmonic Orchestra Erlangen
- Young Philharmonic Cologne
- Young Symphony Cologne
- Young Philharmonic Orchestra Lower Saxony (JPON)
- Young Symphony Orchestra Hanover
K
- Chamber Orchestra Basel
- Chamber Orchestra Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Berlin)
- Chamber orchestra of the Saarland Radio
- Chamber Philharmonic Leipzig
- Chamber Symphony Leipzig
- Kentucky Symphony Orchestra (Newport)
- Klangforum Wien
- Classical Philharmonic Bonn
- Classical Philharmonic Northwest
- Cologne Academy
- Cologne Chamber Orchestra
- Cologne carolers
- Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Cologne Symphony Orchestra
- Royal Chapel Copenhagen
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam)
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Stockholm)
- Konzerthausorchester Berlin
- Kremerata Baltica (Riga)
- Kroma Ensemble (Brussels)
- Bad Kissingen spa orchestra
- Palatinate Chamber Orchestra (Mannheim)
L.
- State Brass Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg
- Landesblasorchester NRW
- State Youth Brass Orchestra Brandenburg
- State Youth Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg
- State Youth Orchestra of Schleswig-Holstein
- State Youth Orchestra of Thuringia
- Landeskapelle Eisenach
- State Police Orchestra Brandenburg
- State Police Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Lautten Compagney (Berlin)
- Leipzig Chamber Orchestra
- Leipzig Symphony Orchestra
- Leipzig University Orchestra
- Leningrad Philharmonic
- Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (Vilnius)
- Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra (Vilnius)
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Loh Orchestra Sondershausen
- London Classical Players
- London Contemporary Orchestra
- London Metropolitan Orchestra
- London Mozart Players
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Sinfonietta
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Louisville Orchestra
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Lucerne)
- Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
M.
- Auschwitz Girls Orchestra
- Madison Symphony Orchestra
- Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Berlin)
- Mainz Chamber Orchestra
- Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (Kuala Lumpur)
- Malmö Symfoniorkester
- Mannheim Wind Philharmonic
- Mannheim Philharmonic
- MDR Symphony Orchestra (Leipzig)
- Mecklenburg State Orchestra Schwerin
- Meininger court chapel
- Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
- Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig
- Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis)
- Modern Sounds Orchestra ( Seelze near Hanover )
- Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra
- Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
- Munich Chamber Orchestra
- Munich sound
- Munich Philharmonic
- Munich Radio Orchestra
- Munich Symphony Orchestra
- Münster student orchestra
- Musica Antiqua Cologne
- Musikkollegium Winterthur
N
- Nashville Symphony
- National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC)
- National Symphony Orchestra Ghana (Accra)
- National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Kiev)
- National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Kiev)
- National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio (Katowice)
- National Symphony Orchestra of Estonia (Tallinn)
- National Theater Orchestra Mannheim
- NBC Symphony Orchestra (New York)
- NDR Radiophilharmonie ( Hanover )
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra ( Hamburg )
- Neubrandenburg Philharmonic
- New Philharmonic Hall Frankfurt (Offenbach am Main)
- New Westphalia Philharmonic
- New Bachisches Collegium Musicum (Leipzig)
- New Orchestra Basel
- New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra (Tokyo)
- New Rhenish Chamber Orchestra (Cologne)
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Newark)
- New Mexico Symphony Orchestra ( Albuquerque )
- New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ( Wellington )
- New York Philharmonic
- NHK Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo)
- Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra (Amsterdam)
- Lower Saxony Youth Symphony Orchestra (Hanover)
- Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover
- North German Philharmonic Rostock
- North German Sinfonietta (Rendsburg)
- Nordic Symphony Orchestra (Tallinn)
- Northwest German Philharmonic (Herford)
- Northern Chamber Orchestra ( Manchester )
- Symphony Orchestra of the Norrland Opera ( Umeå )
- Nuremberg Youth Orchestra
- Nuremberg Philharmonic
- Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
O
- Odeon Youth Symphony Orchestra Munich
- Oldenburg State Orchestra
- Orchestra BerlinClassicPlayers
- Orchestra Berliner Musikfreunde
- Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
- Orchestra of the Collegium Musicum Bonn
- Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
- Orchestra of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig
- Orchestra of Cultures (Stuttgart)
- Orchestra of the Musical Comedy (Leipzig)
- Bolshoi Theater Orchestra (Moscow)
- Mariinsky Theater Orchestra (Saint Petersburg)
- Orchestra of the National Theater Mannheim
- Orchestra of the Halle Opera House (since 2006 part of the Staatskapelle Halle )
- Orchestra of the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz (Munich)
- Orchestra ensemble Kanazawa
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome)
- Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (Lugano)
- Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala (Milan)
- Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice (Venice)
- Orchestra Mozart Bologna
- Orchestra of St. Luke’s (New York)
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (London)
- Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta
- Orchestra sinfonica di Roma
- Orchester de Chambre de Lausanne
- Orchester de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (Paris)
- Orchester de la Suisse Romande (Geneva)
- Orchester de Paris
- Orchester des Concerts Lamoureux (Paris)
- Orchester Métropolitain (Montreal)
- Orchester national de Belgique (Brussels)
- Orchester national de France (Paris)
- Orchester national de Lille
- Orchester national de Lyon
- Orchester national d'Île-de-France (Alfortville)
- Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse
- Orchester philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
- Orchester philharmonique de Nice (Nice)
- Orchester philharmonique de Radio France (Paris)
- Orchester philharmonique de Strasbourg
- Orchester Révolutionnaire et Romantique (London)
- Orchester symphonique de Bretagne (Rennes)
- Orchester symphonique de Montréal
- Orchester Symphonique Kimbanguiste ( Kinshasa )
- Oregon Symphony Orchestra (Portland)
- ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna
- Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (New York)
- Orquesta Académica de Madrid
- Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá
- Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires
- Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga
- Orquesta Nacional de España (Madrid)
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi (San Sebastián)
- Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar (Caracas)
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid
- Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas
- Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá)
- Orquesta Sinfónica Venezuela (Caracas)
- Orquestra de Cadaqués
- Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro)
- Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
- Orquestra Sinfônica Nacional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro)
- Oslo filharmonics
- Oslo Sinfonietta
- Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra
P
- Pan American Symphony Orchestra ( Washington, DC )
- Persimfans (Moscow)
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Philharmonia Hungarica (Marl)
- Philharmonia Orchestra (London)
- Philharmonia Zurich
- Baden-Baden Philharmonic
- Philharmonic Festiva
- Merck Philharmonic (Darmstadt)
- Philharmonic of Nations (Hamburg)
- Philharmonie Essen (in the hall building Essen )
- Philharmonic Orchestra Japan
- Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra
- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Philharmonic South Westphalia (Hilchenbach)
- Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Berlin
- Philharmonic Orchestra Altenburg-Gera
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ( Bergen (Norway) )
- Philharmonic Orchestra of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg
- Philharmonic Orchestra of the City of Trier (in the Trier Theater )
- Philharmonic Orchestra Erfurt
- Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg
- Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen
- Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel (in Theater Kiel )
- Philharmonic Orchestra Landestheater Coburg
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra
- Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg (previously RTL's Large Symphony Orchestra)
- Philharmonic Orchestra Würzburg
- Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle (part of the Staatskapelle Halle since 2006 )
- Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg
- Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz
- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
- Portuguese Chamber Orchestra (Oeiras)
- Prague Philharmonic
- Prague Symphony Orchestra
- Prayner Conservatory Orchestra (Vienna)
Q
- Queensland Symphony Orchestra (Brisbane)
R.
- Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Hilversum)
- Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart
- Rainbow Symphony Cologne (Cologne)
- RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
- recreation - Large Orchestra Graz
- Reichs Bruckner Orchestra (Linz)
- Orchestra of the Reichsender Königsberg
- Rhenish orchestra
- Robert Schumann Philharmonic (Chemnitz)
- Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rotterdam's Philharmonic Orcest
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( Amsterdam )
- Royal Danish Orchestra (Copenhagen)
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Northern Sinfonia ( Newcastle upon Tyne )
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London)
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Glasgow)
- Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin
- Radio Symphony Orchestra Cologne
- Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg
- Russian National Philharmonic
- Russian National Orchestra (Moscow)
S.
- Saarland State Orchestra at the Saarland State Theater
- Saxon Wind Philharmonic
- Saxon Symphony Orchestra Chemnitz
- Saxon State Orchestra Dresden
- Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
- San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
- Saint Petersburg Philharmonic
- Orchester schrÄgetÖne (Orchester der Kunstplatte , Stendal)
- Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
- Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
- Siemens Orchestra Erlangen
- Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra (Caracas)
- Sinfonia Varsovia (Warsaw)
- Sinfonia Lahti
- Symphony Orchestra Aachen
- Basel Symphony Orchestra
- Bergisch Gladbach Symphony Orchestra
- Kyoto Symphony Orchestra
- Kyushu Symphony Orchestra
- Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra
- Lübbecke Symphony Orchestra
- Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
- Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
- Yamagata Symphony Orchestra
- Sinfonietta da Camera Salzburg
- Sinfonietta Dresden
- Sinfonietta Leipzig
- Sinfonietta Mainz
- Singapore Symphony Orchestra
- Slovak Philharmonic (Bratislava)
- Sorbian National Ensemble (Bautzen)
- Spanish National Orchestra (Madrid)
- State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Moscow)
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- Staatskapelle Dresden
- Staatskapelle Hall
- Weimar State Orchestra
- Braunschweig State Orchestra
- State Orchestra Darmstadt
- Kassel State Orchestra
- State Orchestra Rheinische Philharmonie (Koblenz)
- State Orchestra Stuttgart
- Stamitz Orchestra Mannheim
- Starkenburg Philharmonic (Viernheim)
- Münster student orchestra
- Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
- Stuttgart Philharmonic
- Southwest German Philharmonic (Constance)
- SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg
- Sydney Symphony Orchestra
- Symfonický orchestr hlavního města Prahy FOK (Prague)
- Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen (Bruges)
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Munich)
- Symphony Orchestra, Kinshasa , Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)
- Symphony of the Air
T
- Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (Hobart)
- Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha-Eisenach
- Thuringian Symphony Orchestra Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
- Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck
- Tōkyō Kōsei Wind Orchestra
- Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
- Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
- Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
- Tonkünstler Orchestra Lower Austria (Vienna)
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra
- Czech Philharmonic (Prague)
- Czech National Symphony Orchestra (Prague)
- Czech Symphony Orchestra (Prague)
- Tulsa Philharmonic (dissolved in 2002)
- Tulsa Symphony
U
- Ulster Orchestra (Belfast)
- Bonn University Orchestra - Camerata musicale
- Utah Symphony Orchestra (Salt Lake City)
V
W.
- Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
- WDR Funkhausorchester Cologne
- WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
- West Australian Symphony Orchestra (Perth)
- West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (Seville)
- Vienna Imperial Orchestra
- Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra
- Vienna Mozart Orchestra
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Vienna Symphony Orchestra
- Württemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen
- Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn
- Württemberg State Orchestra Stuttgart