Effective period / Period of releases: 1986 - 2017

Members: Markus Hötzel, Roswitha Staege, Armin Aussem, Rainer Müller-van Recum, Götz Hartmann, Margarete Adorf, Holger Philipsen, Xiao-Ming Han, Peter Arnold (2), Stefan Zimmer, Thomas Crome, Johannes Kiefel, Thomas Hemkemeier, Gisela Arnold, Michael Gärtner, Claudia Limperg, Markus Tillier, Ilka Emmert, Michinori Bunya, Walter Hermann, Klaus Hasslwanter, Bernd Hassel, Ulrich Rinderle, Heiko Triebener, Gabor Szarvas, Jiro Ikeda, Ayla Caymaz, Benjamin Rivinius, Dirk Hegemann, Werner Ehrbrecht, Thomas Schreiber (5), Mithras Octet, Christoph Mentzel, Peter Przybylla, Veit Stolzenberger, Manfred Neumann (2), Jie Ming Li, Martin Frink, Marc Engelhardt, Helmut Haag, Susanne Winkler (2), Robert Neumair (2), Ulrike Broszinski, Siegfried Nitt, Helmut Winkel, Reinhilde Adorf, Wolfgang Böttger

The origins of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken go back to the Orchester Des Reichssenders Saarbrücken which was founded in 1937. In 1946 the orchestra was founded as Radio-Orchester Saarbrücken and was affiliated to the Saarland Broadcasting Company (later Saarländischer Rundfunk). In September 2007 the orchestra was merged with the SWR-Rundfunk-Orchester Kaiserslautern to the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.

Chief conductors:
• Rudolf Michl (since 1946)
• Hans Zender (1972 to 1984)
• Myung-Whun Chung (1984 to 1990)
• Marcello Viotti (1990 to 1995)
• Michael Stern (1996 to 2000)
• Günther Herbig (2001 to 2006)
• Christoph Poppen (2006 to 2007)