Vienna Residence Orchestra

Classical Viennese music in unsurpassable excellence

The Vienna Residence Orchestra, a chamber orchestra with a long tradition, was established by pianist and conductor Paul Moser in order to present the Viennese classics in unsurpassable excellence. The passed decades various events were presented in Vienna’s most beautiful palace. The orchestra plays pieces from Mozart to Johann Strauss with 10 to 40 musicians. In 1991 the orchestra was the official Austrian representative at Mozart’s anniversary celebrations and played numerous concerts at the "Wiener Klangbogen" festival.

In 1992 world-famous Rudolf Nurejev became the orchestra’s first guest director. Nurejev was quickly seen throughout Europe with the Vienna Residence Orchestra and met with sensational success. Important European artists were guests alongside the Vienna Residence Orchestra: Rainer Küchl, The Vienna Philharmonic’s concertmaster, star tenor Jochen Kowalski, conductors Arild Remmereit, Guiseppe Lanzetta, Herbert Roggenburg, and many others beside. The Vienna Residence Orchestra attends the well-known international festival. The stations on the way to a successful, global career included: Paris, Berlin, Rome, Venice, Ravello, Deauville, Athens, the Budapest National Opera, Varese, Montevideo, Mexico, Brussels, Salzburg and the Vienna Music Association. Today the Vienna Residence Orchestra is one of the world’s best chamber orchestras. The orchestra’s concertmaster is one of the world’s best violinists who after huge international success makes appearances as a soloist with leading orchestras around the world.

Residence Orchestra Sabina Under the musical leadership of Prof. Christian Pollack and guest conductors Gerhard Lagrange, Daniel- Hoyem Cavazza and Mag. Zoltán Janikovic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra plays concerts every day in the most beautiful Vienna palace: in small and large groups, with famous opera singers, ballet dancers and with musical delights that match the appropriate seasonal theme. The VRO’s Mozart and Strauss concerts are one of the cultural highlights of any journey to Vienna.