Founded in 1919; the Bochumer Symphoniker have played in the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr since its opening in 2016. The orchestra has appeared as a guest at the Kölner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Philharmonie Essen, where it performed a cycle of Gustav Mahler’s complete symphonic works, and it takes part regularly in the Klavierfestival Ruhr. Concert tours have taken it to Israel, Austria, Estonia and the USA; with the RuhrTriennale production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s “Die Soldaten” it appeared at the invitation of the Lincoln Center Festival in New York. From 1994 to 2021 Steven Sloane was general music director; for the concert programmes of the 1996/97 and 2004/05 seasons the orchestra received the Bestes Konzertprogramm award of the Deutscher Musikverleger-Verband. The general music director is Tung-Chieh Chuang. In 2010 Cybele Records released the album Hans Werner Henze and the Requiem with the Bochumer Symphoniker under Steven Sloane.
Bochumer Symphoniker
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