North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
The NDR Radiophilharmonie orchestra with its home performance venue in the Großer Sendesaal studio of the NDR Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen broadcasting centre was founded in Hanover in 1950 and has worked with renowned stars of the music scene, such as András Schiff, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Midori, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Philippe Jaroussky and Christoph Eschenbach. The orchestra regularly cooperates with Frank Peter Zimmermann, Igor Levit, Maurice Steger and Christian Tetzlaff and has had cross-genre collaborations with artists such as the King’s Singers, Brad Mehldau and Johannes Oerding.
Over the past 20 years, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, with its principal conductors Eiji Oue, Eivind Gullberg Jensen and Andrew Manze, has secured its place among the leading symphony orchestras. The orchestra has performed several times at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Großes Festspielhaus concert hall in Salzburg, and had concert tours outside Europe, for example to Asia and South America.
The intensive collaboration with chief conductor Andrew Manze in recent years has had a decisive artistic impact on the NDR Radiophilharmonie orchestra, causing quite a stir and leading to a good response in the international musical world. Already the first joint recording of Mendelssohn symphonies in 2017 was awarded the Annual German Record Critics’ Award.
Starting in 2024, the position of Chief Conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover is held by Stanislav Kochanovsky.
