Real name: Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim

Effective period / Period of releases: 1956 - 2022

Members: Verena Volkmer, Helmut Müller, Karl Arnold, Kraft-Thorwald Dilloo, Henryk Szeryng, Friedrich Tilegant, Heinrich Haferland, Ulrich Koch, Jan Schröder, György Terebesi, Pierre Pierlot, Jacoba Muckel, Jacques Chambon, Hartmut Strebel, Fritz Werner, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, Michael Dzionora, Hermann Werdermann, Karl Höffinger, Eugen M. Dombois, Paul Angerer, Marc Noetzel, Alfred Lessing, Douglas Bostock, Heinz Zickler, Hellmut Schneidewind, Horst Schneider (2), Gerhard Braun, Vladislav Czarnecki, Friedrich Milde, Chihiro Saito (2), Georg Egger, Thomas Gerlinger, Stefan Knote, Antal Papp, Hans Spengler, Günther Linnebach, Raymond Warnier, Petra Wolff, Friedemann Breuninger, Claudiu Rupa, Ariane Volm, Theo Von Schön, Fritz Strowitzky, Markus Krusche, Percy Kalt, Walter Gleissle, Lucile Chionchini, Gabriele Etz, Andreas Schmidt (13), Benjamin Wittiber, Maximilian Oberroither, Timo Handschuh, Martin Linder (3), Werner Büttner (2), Matthias Botzet, Rene Wehrle, Krassimira Krasteva, Konstanze Bodamer, Dariusz Wasiak, Cheryl Swoboda, Michael Ewers, Eleonore Bodendorff, Andrzej Brzecki, Vera Kleimann, Andrea Hanke, Ivanna Ternay, Marcin Gortel, Luis Martinez-Eisenberg, Andrea Steinberg, Catherine Varady, Ulrich Weißenburg, Nikola Stolz, Chiharu Asami, Peter Pudil, Heinrich Herpich, Attila Szegedi, Agnieszka Korniluk, Alexandra Bossak, Joanna Gortel, Jutta Kühnel, Editha Konwitschny

The South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim was founded in 1950 by Friedrich Tilegant, a student of Paul Hindemith, and is based in the City Stadt Pforzheim, Southwest Germany. The orchestra was directed by Paul Angerer from 1971 to 1981, by Vladislav Czarnecki from 1986 to 2002, by Sebastian Tewinkel from 2002 to 2013, by Timo Handschuh from 2013 to 2019, and since 2019 by Douglas Bostock.