Effective period / Period of releases: 2002

Members: Ben Groocock, Eckart Hübner, Raimund Schmitz, Kazushi Ono, Steffen Hamm, Michael Fenton, Wolfgang Kursawe, Thomas Crome, Sandor Szabo (2), Martin Nitschmann, Martin Drescher, Heinrich Gölzenleuchter, Hans Häublein, Katrin Adelmann, Walter Mederus, Jürgen Danker, Franziska Dürr, Xiaoyin Feng, Xaver Paul Thoma, Alessio Taranto, Daniel Bollinger, Michael Zühl, Masae Kobayashi, Jens Böcherer, Gottfried von Freiberg, Claudia Von Kopp Ostrowski, Hans Börner, Axel Haase, Wolfram Lauel, Ilona Steinheimer, Klaus Schießer, Monika Kinzler, Ayu Ideue, Christoph Klein (4), Peter Cerny (2), Rainer Engelhardt, Diana Drechsler, Thomas Gieron, Werner Mayerle, Keiko Yoschino, Dörthe Mandel, Charles Tibbetts, Stephan Skiba

German concert and opera orchestra founded 1662 and is based in Karlsruhe.

General music directors since 1904:

• Michael Balling (1904–1907)
• Georg Göhler (1907–1909)
• Leopold Reichwein (1909–1913)
• Fritz Cortolezis (1913–1925)
• Josef Krips (1926–1933)
• Klaus Nettstraetter (1933–1935)
• Joseph Keilberth (1935–1940)
• Otto Matzerath (1940–1955)
• Alexander Krannhals (1955–1961)
• Arthur Grüber (1962–1976)
• Christof Prick(1977–1985)
• José Maria Collado (1985–1987)
• Günter Neuhold (1989–1995)
• Kazushi Ono (1996–2002)
• Anthony Bramall (2002–2008)
• Justin Brown (2) (2008 - 2020)
• Georg Fritzsch (since 2020)