Effective period / Period of releases: 2000 - 2009

Members: Fritz Heieck, Stefan Panzer, Peter Gerschwitz, Jochen Scheerer, Peter Leiner, Anne Yuuko Akahoshi, Jiri Darek, Vilmantas Kaliunas

German radio orchestra affiliated to the public broadcaster Südwestrundfunk, founded in 1951 as Rundfunkorchester Des Südwestfunks. When the Südwestfunk changed into the Südwestrundfunk in 1998, also the orchestra was renamed to SWR-Rundfunk-Orchester Kaiserslautern. In September 2007 the orchestra was merged with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken to form the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.

Principal conductors:
• Emmerich Smola (1951 to 1987)
• Klaus Arp (1987 to 1995)
• Peter Falk (1995 to 2001)
• Grzegorz Nowak (2001 to 2007)