Konzerthausorchester Berlin

The Konzerthausorchester Berlin is associated closely with its home venue, the Konzerthaus Berlin, where it performs some 100 concerts annually. Even before German reunification, the orchestra began to attract internationally prominent conductors and soloists. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin was founded in 1952 as the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, or Berlin Symphony Orchestra, in the divided city of Berlin. Located in what was then East Berlin, it was intended as a counterpart to the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin Symphony in West Berlin, and it was sometimes confused with...