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...