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"Sweetest of all were the waves of sound from The Sjaelland Symphony Orchestra (Copenhagen Philharmonic) as conducted by Graham Bond".  New York Times, March 30, 2009.

The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) is probably the most versatile danish orchestra with more than one hundred concerts, ballet- and opera performances each season.

CPO has since 2007 worked closely with two world known conductors: Chief Conductor Lan Sui and Principal Guest Conductor Cristian Mandeal.

Read more about the two permanent conductors here.

The Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra has a history going back to 1843, when the Tivoli Garden opened in Copenhagen. The main attraction in the garden was the 11 man strong orchestra lead by Hans Christian Lumbye, later to be known as the Strauss of the North.

Ever since, the orchestra has played in Tivoli every summer as the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra. Today Tivoli runs a world class music festival with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra as the back bone.

In 1965 the orchestra became a full-time orchestra and since then the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra has presented a long list of outstanding conductors and soloists to the Copenhagen audience including Arvid and Mariss Jansons, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Philippe Entremont, Paavo Berglund, Charles Dutoit, Sir Neville Mariner, Sixten Ehrling, Myung-Whun Chung, Yurij Temirkanov, Sir Simon Rattle, Leif Segerstam, Okko Kamu o.a.

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