The Royal Danish Orchestra

The Royal Danish Orchestra is considered the world’s oldest orchestra, dating back to 1448 to when it served King Christian I as the Royal Court Trumpet Corps. Many great conductors and composers have over the years worked with the Royal Danish Orchestra, among others Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Sergiu Celibidache and Daniel Barenboim. The orchestra was for many years a home to Carl Nielsen as a violinist and as a conductor. Activities have been many-sided – from CD recordings to New Year’s concerts and much more. A vast number of tours abroad have taken the orchestra to, among other places, the Musikverein in Vienna in 2002 with former music director Michael Schønwandt and violinist Nikolaj Znaider and to the Berliner Philharmonie and the Symphony Hall, Birmingham with Michael Boder and the soprano Magdalena Anna Hofmann in 2015. With the inauguration of the Opera House in Copenhagen in 2005, the Royal Danish Orchestra was given a new and acoustically superb platform for both opera, ballet and concerts.