Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg
The Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra in 1984, from the urgent desire, after the dissolution of the Vorarlberg Radio Orchestra in 1959 in the western Austrian province again to establish an orchestra at the highest level. The fixed root of the Vorarlberg Symphony constitute 80 percent of professional musicians from Vorarlberg and the neighboring countries Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the German Bodensee area.
The Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra 's work is project -oriented. Without solid roster in intensive rehearsal periods per season up to ten programs are rehearsed and performed in several concerts each. At a fixed point in the annual program of the orchestra were staged opera productions in collaboration with the Vorarlberg State Theatre since 1990. Since 1994 the orchestra has most successfully own subscription series at the Festspielhaus Bregenz and Feldkirch Montfort. Since 2002 there is a third cycle in the Bregenz Forest.
The collaboration with internationally renowned soloists and conductors such as Heinrich Schiff, Thomas Zehetmair, Julian Rachlin, her somewhat, Thomas Quasthoff, Clemens Hagen, Manfred Honeck, Kirill Petrenko, Gérard Korsten, the actor Tobias Moretti or the author Michael Köhlmeier as well as regular appearances at international festivals ( Schubertiade, Bregenz Festival, Bregenz Spring ) make the orchestra into an important cultural institution.
Numerous radio recordings, three television and four CD recordings documenting also the varied repertoire of the orchestra. Besides works of the traditional classical-romantic orchestral repertoire and new music of the 20th and 21st centuries is regularly performed, with composers from Vorarlberg are of particular importance.
From 1988 to 2005 Christoph Eberle was chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg. Tours have taken it under his direction several times to Vienna ( Great Hall of the Musikverein, Konzerthaus ) to Munich ( Philharmonie ), Dusseldorf ( Tonhalle ), Madrid ( Auditorio Nacional), Bolzano ( Teatro Nuovo ) and to Salzburg and Naples. Since November 2005, Gérard Korsten chief conductor of the orchestra.