List of symphony orchestras in Europe
This is a non-exhaustive list of symphony orchestras in Europe. For orchestras from other continents, see List of symphony orchestras.
Pan-European orchestras
- Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- European Union Youth Orchestra
- Spira Mirabilis
Austria
- Ars Antiqua Austria
- Bruckner Orchestra Linz
- Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
- Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
- Symphony Orchestra Vorarlberg
- Tonkünstler Orchestra
- Vienna Chamber Orchestra
- Vienna Mozart Orchestra
- Vienna Philharmonic
- Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Vienna Symphony
- Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester
Baltic States
- Kremerata Baltica
Belgium
- Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
- Brussels Philharmonic
- Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
- National Orchestra of Belgium
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
- Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra
Bulgaria
- Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
- New Symphony Orchestra
- Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sofia Symphonic Orchestra
Croatia
- Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra
- Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Czech Republic
- Barocco sempre giovane
- Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague
- Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
- Capellen Orchestra
- City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Czech National Symphony Orchestra
- Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
- Czech Symphony Orchestra
- Film Symphony Orchestra, also known as Czech Symphony Orchestra during Live-Concerts
- Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra
- Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra
- Moravian Philharmonic
- Praga Sinfonietta Orchestra
- Prague Philharmonia
- Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Prague Symphony Orchestra
- Suk Chamber Orchestra
- Teplice Symphony Orchestra
Denmark
- Aalborg Symphony Orchestra
- Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
- Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Danish National Chamber Orchestra
- Danish National Symphony Orchestra
- Odense Symphony Orchestra
- Sønderjyllands Symphony Orchestra
- Royal Danish Orchestra
Estonia
- Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
European Union
- European Union Baroque Orchestra
- European Union Youth Orchestra
Finland
- Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1882
- Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1927
- Lahti Symphony Orchestra founded in 1910
- Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra founded in 1930
- Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1790
- Jyväskylä Sinfonia founded in 1955
- Oulu Symphony Orchestra founded in 1937
- Kymi Sinfonietta founded in 1999
- Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, founded in 1983
- Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra
- Ylioppilaskunnan Soittajat, founded in 1747
- The Polytech Orchestra, founded in 1922
France
- Concerts Colonne, founded in 1873
- Concerts Lamoureux, founded in 1881
- Concerts Pasdeloup, founded in 1861
- Ensemble InterContemporain, founded in 1976
- Ensemble La Fenice, founded in 1990
- Ensemble Matheus, founded in 1991
- Les Musiciens du Louvre, founded in 1982
- Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, founded in 1828, disbanded 1967
- Orchestre de Paris, founded in 1967
- Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, founded in 1991
- , founded in 2009
- Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, founded in 1974
- Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, founded in 1974
- Orchestre National de France, founded in 1934
- Orchestre National de Lille, founded in 1976
- Orchestre National de Lyon, founded in 1905
- Orchestre National de Metz, founded in 1976
- Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, founded in 1971
- Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, founded c.1932
- Orchestre des Pays de Savoie, founded in 1984
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, 1937
- Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, founded in 1855
- Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, founded in 1975
- Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, founded in 1884
- Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier, founded in 2001
- Rouen Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1998
Germany
A–M
- Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
- Akademische Orchestervereinigung
- Badische Staatskapelle
- Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
- Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Bavarian State Orchestra
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Berliner Symphoniker
- Bochumer Symphoniker
- Detmold Chamber Orchestra
- Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg
- Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
- Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
- Dortmunder Philharmoniker
- Dresden Philharmonic
- Duisburg Philharmonic
- Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester
- Fulda Symphonic Orchestra
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- Hamburger Symphoniker
- Hannoversche Hofkapelle
- Hofer Symphoniker
- hr-Sinfonieorchester
- Jenaer Philharmonie
- Konzerthausorchester Berlin
- Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
- Mahler Chamber Orchestra
- MDR Symphony Orchestra
- Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle
- Münchner Rundfunkorchester
- Munich Philharmonic
N–Z
- NDR Radiophilharmonie
- NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra
- Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt
- Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
- Nuremberg Symphony
- Philharmonia Hungarica, founded by Hungarian exiles, disbanded 2001
- Philharmonie Festiva
- Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
- Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin
- Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz
- Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- Staatskapelle Dresden
- Staatskapelle Halle
- Staatskapelle Weimar
- Staatsorchester Braunschweig
- Staatsorchester Stuttgart
- Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
- Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln
- WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
- Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn
Greece
- Philharmonic Society of Corfu
Hungary
- Budapest Festival Orchestra
- Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra
- Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, also known earlier as Budapest Symphony Orchestra
- Hungarian National Philharmonic
- Philharmonia Hungarica, founded by Hungarian exiles, based in Germany; dissolved in 2001
- Szeged Symphony Orchestra
Iceland
- Iceland Symphony Orchestra
- Icelandic Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Sinfóníuhljómsveit unga fólksins
- SinfoNord
- Sinfóníuhljómsveit áhugamanna
- Sinfóníuhljómsveit Menntaskólans í Tónlist
- Sinfóníuhljómsveit Tónlistarskólanna
Ireland
- RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
- RTÉ Concert Orchestra
- Irish Chamber Orchestra
- Hibernian Orchestra
- Camerata Ireland
- Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dublin Orchestral Players
- University College Dublin Symphony Orchestra
Italy
- Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Rome
- Camerata de' Bardi, academic orchestra, Pavia
- I Musici, Rome
- I Solisti Veneti, Padua
- Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
- Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio
- Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice, Venice
- Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali, Milan
- Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Milan
- Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
- Orchestra Mozart, founded by Claudio Abbado in Bologna
- Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, directed by Ennio Morricone
- Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Rome
- RCA Italiana Orchestra
- Rondò Veneziano, Venice
- Teatro San Carlo Orchestra, Naples
- Teatro Carlo Felice Orchestra, Genova
- Teatro dell'Opera di Roma Orchestra, Rome
- Teatro Petruzzelli Orchestra, Bari
- Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, Bologna
- Venice Baroque Orchestra
Latvia
- Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
- Liepaja Symphony Orchestra
Lichenstein
- Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein
- Orchester Liechtenstein-Werdenberg
Lithuania
- Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra
- Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
- Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
Luxembourg
- Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra
- Luxembourg Sinfonietta
Malta
- Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Monaco
- Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Montenegro
- Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra
The Netherlands
- Holland Symfonia
- Metropole Orchestra
- National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands
- Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
- Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
- Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
- Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
- North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century
- Residentie Orchestra
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Symfonisch Blaasorkest ATH
Norway
- Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra
- Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
- Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra
- North Norwegian Opera and Symphony Orchestra
- Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
- Norwegian Radio Orchestra
- Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Oslo Sinfonietta
- Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
- Trondheim Symphony Orchestra
Poland
- Pomeranian Philharmonic
- Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra
- Łódź Philharmonic
- Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Polish Baltic Philharmonic
- Poznań Philharmonic
- National Forum of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Silesian Philharmonic
- Sinfonia Varsovia
- Sudecka Philharmonic
- Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
- Szczecin Philharmonic
- Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, youth orchestra at concentration camp
Portugal
- Gulbenkian Orchestra
- Portuguese Chamber Orchestra
- Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música
Romania
- Bucharest Symphony Orchestra
- Cluj "Transilvania" Philharmonic Orchestra
- Craiova "Oltenia" Philharmonic Orchestra
- George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra
- Iaşi "Moldova" Philharmonic Orchestra
- National Radio Orchestra of Romania
- Ploieşti "Paul Constantinescu" Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sibiu State Philharmonic Orchestra
- Timișoara "Banatul" Philharmonic Orchestra
Russia
- Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
- Moscow Chamber Orchestra
- Moscow City Symphony Orchestra
- Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
- Moscow State Symphony Orchestra
- Moscow Symphony Orchestra
- Moscow Virtuosi
- Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra
- National Philharmonic of Russia
- Novosibirsk Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra
- Persimfans
- Russian National Orchestra
- Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sochi Symphony Orchestra
- Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra
- Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
- State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation
- State Symphony Capella of Russia
- State Symphony Cinema Orchestra
- Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra
- Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Serbia
- Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
- Niš Symphony Orchestra
Slovakia
- Cappella Istropolitana
- Slovak Philharmonic
- Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Slovenia
- RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra
- Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra
Spain
- Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa
- Castile and León Symphony Orchestra
- Chamartín Symphony Orchestra
- Community of Madrid Orchestra
- Joven Orquesta Nacional de España
- Málaga Philharmonic
- Madrid Academic Orchestra
- Madrid Symphony Orchestra
- Orquesta Ciudad de Granada
- Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia
- Orquestra de Cadaqués
- Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga
- Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Burgos
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife
- Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès
- Queen Sofía Chamber Orchestra
- Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara
- Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla
- RTVE Symphony Orchestra
- Sociedad de Conciertos de Madrid
- Orquesta Nacional de España
- Valencian Community Orchestra
- Valencia Orchestra
Sweden
- Gävle Symphony Orchestra
- Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
- Kungliga Hovkapellet
- Malmö Symphony Orchestra
- Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
- Örebro Chamber Orchestra
- Royal Academic Orchestra
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Stockholm Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Swedish Chamber Orchestra
- Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Switzerland
- Basel Sinfonietta
- Berner Symphonie-Orchester
- Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra
- Camerata Bern
- Kammerorchester Basel
- Lucerne Festival Strings
- Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
- Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur
- Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
- Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
- Orchestre de chambre de Neuchâtel
- Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
- Sinfonieorchester Basel
- Tonhalle Orchester Zurich
- Zurich Chamber Orchestra
- Zurich Opera House Orchestra
- Zurich Symphony Orchestra
Ukraine
- Ukrainian Radio Symphony Orchestra
- National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
- Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine
- Kyiv Classic Orchestra
United Kingdom
England
- Academy of Ancient Music
- Academy of St Martin in the Fields
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- BBC Philharmonic
- BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Bournemouth Sinfonietta
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Britten Sinfonia
- Camerata of London
- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
- City of London Sinfonia
- City of Rochester Symphony Orchestra
- Docklands Sinfonia
- English Baroque Soloists
- English Chamber Orchestra
- English Concert
- Ex Cathedra Baroque Orchestra
- Hallé Orchestra
- Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra
- Hull Philharmonic Orchestra
- Kensington Symphony Orchestra
- Kings Chamber Orchestra
- Leeds Symphony Orchestra
- Leicester Symphony Orchestra
- London Chamber Orchestra
- London Classical Players
- London Festival Orchestra
- London Mozart Players
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Shostakovich Orchestra
- London Sinfonietta
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Manchester Camerata
- National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
- New London Orchestra
- Northern Sinfonia
- Orchestra of Opera North
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
- Orchestra of the City
- Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
- Philharmonia
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sheffield Symphony Orchestra
- Sinfonia ViVA
- St Giles Orchestra
- Sunderland Symphony Orchestra
- The King's Consort
- Worthing Symphony Orchestra
Northern Ireland
- Ulster Orchestra
Scotland
- BBC Scottish Radio Orchestra
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Scottish Ensemble
- Scottish Festival Orchestra
- West of Scotland Schools Symphony Orchestra
Wales
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra
- National Youth Orchestra of Wales
- Welsh Sinfonia