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Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Band, US
Classical
A.k.a. Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

For recording years 1946–1956 please use RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin For recording years 1956–1993 please use Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin This orchestra was founded as RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in West-Berlin in 1946. It was affiliated the American broadcasting station RIAS Berlin (Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor / Radio in the American Sector). In 1956 the name was changed to Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. After the German reunion the name changed again to Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 1993. This was done to prevent mix-ups with the East-Berlin based Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Principal conductors: Ferenc Fricsay (1948–1954 and 1959–1963) Lorin Maazel (1964–1975) Riccardo Chailly (1982–1989) Vladimir Ashkenazy (1989–2000)

Members

	Hans Lemke bsn
	Dietmar Schwalke vc *1958 DE
	Olaf Ott tb *1963 DE
	Maurice André tr 1933-2012 FR
	Gerhard Schröder alp FR
	Felix Schröder p, hps DE
	Wolfgang Meyer org, hps DE
	Roger Bourdin fl 1923-1976 FR
	Günther Passin ob 1937-2014 AT
	Rolf-Julius Koch ob
	Winfried Rotzoll tr
	Connie Gantsweg vn US
	Leonard Hokanson p 1931-2003 US
	Gerhart Hetzel vn 1940-1992 AT
	Kurt Blank alp
	Siegfried Gahlbeck gam
	Koji Toyoda vn *1933 JP
	Egon Melziarek gam
	Frithjof Fest ob
	Herbert Neumann gam
	Georg Donderer vc 1933-2016 DE
	Günter Zorn ob DE
	Rainer Mehne vn 1947-2016 DE
	Heidrun Ganz vn
	Karl-Bernhard Sebon fl 1935-1994 DE
	Wolfgang Nestle cb DE
	Radovan Vlatković alp *1962 HR
	Johann Nowak cb
	Thomas Turner vl US
	Rudolf Gleißner vc *1942 DE
	Christoph Wyneken vn *1941 DE
	René Forest vc
	Heinz Ortleb vn *1932 DE
	Manfred Rotzoll tr
	Siegfried Häusler tr
	Jörg Fadle cl DE