Duisburg Philharmonic

The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra (in German: Duisburger Philharmoniker) is a German orchestra based in Duisburg. The orchestra was founded in 1877.

Conductors include:

• Walter Josephson (1899 to 1920)
• Paul Scheinpflug (1920 to 1928)
• Eugen Jochum (1930 to 1933)
• Otto Volkmann (1933 to 1944).

After World War II Georg Ludwig Jochum had the care of rebuilding the orchestra, followed by

• Walter Weller (1971)
• Miltiades Caridis (1975 to 1981)
• Lawrence Foster (1982 to 1987)
• Alexander Lazarev (1988 to 1993)
• Bruno Weil (1994 to 2002)
• Jonathan Darlington (2002 to 2011)
• Giordano Bellincampi (2012 to 2017)
• Axel Kober (2019 to present).

The Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the accompanying orchestra of the Duisburg Opera "Deutsche Oper am Rhein".

External links

• Official site