List of symphony orchestras in Europe
This non-exhaustive list of symphony orchestras in Europe contains European orchestras with entries in the Wikipedia plus other particularly noted orchestras based there. For orchestras from other continents, see List of symphony orchestras.
Albania
- Symphonic Orchestra of Radio-Television
- National Theater of Opera and Ballet Symphonic Orchestra
Andorra
- National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra
- National Classic Orchestra of Andorra, official site
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Baltic States
Belarus
- National Academic Great Opera Theater of the Republic of Belarus, official site
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
European Union
Finland
France
- Ensemble InterContemporain
- Ensemble La Fenice
- Ensemble Matheus
- Ensemble orchestral de Paris
- Concerts Colonne (Paris), founded in 1873
- Concerts Lamoureux (Paris), founded in 1881, official site
- Concerts Pasdeloup (Paris), founded in 1861
- Les Musiciens du Louvre (Grenoble), founded in 1982
- Orchestre de Bretagne, founded in 1989
- Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, founded in 1828, disbanded 1967
- Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen, founded in 1998
- Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Lyon, founded in 1983
- Orchestre de Paris, founded in 1967, official site
- Orchestre de Picardie, founded in 1972
- Orchestre des Champs-Élysées (Poitiers), founded in 1991
- Orchestre lyrique d'Avignon-Provence, founded in 1982
- Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, founded in 1974
- Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, founded in 1974
- Orchestre National de France, founded in 1934, official site
- Orchestre National de Lille, founded in 1976
- Orchestre National de Lorraine, founded in 1976
- Orchestre National de Lyon, founded in 1905
- Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, founded in 1971
- Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, founded in the early XVIIIe, official site
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, founded in 1945 ("Orchestre symphonique municipal de la Ville de Nice")
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, official site
- Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, founded in 1855
- Orchestre régional de Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, founded in 1976
- Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, founded in 1867
- Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy, founded in 1884
- Orchestre Sostenuto, founded in 2006
- Orchestre et Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon, founded in 1979
Georgia
- Georgian State Symphony Orchestra
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Republic of Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
- Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Republic of Macedonia
Malta
Montenegro
The Netherlands
- Het Veenkoloniaal Symphonie Orkest (VKSO), official site
- Het Jeugd Symfonie Orkest Drenthe (JSOD), official site
- Het Brabants Orkest, official site
- Holland Symfonia, official site
- Limburgs Symfonie Orkest, official site
- National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands, official site
- Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, official site
- Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, official site
- North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, official site
- Orchestra of the 18th Century
- Orkest van het Oosten, official site
- Residentie Orchestra, official site
- Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, official site
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Concertgebouworkest), official site
- Symfonisch Blaasorkest ATH
- Utrecht Students Orchestra (Utrechtsch Studenten Concert), founded in 1823, official site
Norway
Poland
- Kraków Philharmonic, official site
- Łódź Philharmonic, official site
- Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia (NOSPR) (Katowice), official site
- Orkiestra Opery i Filharmonii Podlaskiej (Białystok), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Pomorskiej (Bydgoszcz), official site
- Orkiestra Filharmonii Częstochowskiej (Częstochowa), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Śląskiej (Katowice), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Świętokrzyskiej (Kielce), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Koszalińskiej (Koszalin), official site
- Orkiestra Filharmonii Lubelskiej (Lublin), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Opolskiej (Opole), official site
- Orkiestra Filharmonii Poznańskiej (Poznań), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii im. A. Malawskiego (Rzeszów), official site
- Orkiestra Polskiej Filharmonii 'Sinfonia Baltica' (Słupsk), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Szczecińskiej (Szczecin), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Wrocławskiej (Wrocław), official site
- Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Zabrzańskiej (Zabrze), official site
- Polish Baltic Philharmonic (Gdańsk), official site
- Polish Baroque Orchestra, official site
- Polska Orkiestra Włościańska (Zamość), official site
- Polska Orkiestra Radiowa (Warszawa), official site
- Orkiestra Filharmonii Zielonogórskiej (Zielona Góra), official site
- Silesian Philharmonic
- Sinfonia Varsovia (Warsaw), official site
- Sinfonietta Consonus(Gdańsk), official site
- Sudecka Philharmonic (Wałbrzych), official site
- Toruńska Orkiestra Symfoniczna (Toruń), official site
- Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (Warsaw), official site
- Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, youth orchestra at concentration camp (historic)
Portugal
- Gulbenkian Orchestra
- Orquestra Nacional do Porto, official site
- Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa
- Orquestra Clássica da Madeira
- Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras
- Orquestra de Jovens Músicos
- Orquestra e Coral Delfim Moreira, official site
- Orquestra do Algarve
- Orquestra do Norte
- Orquestra do Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa
- Orquestra Filarmónica das Beiras
- Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa
- Orquestra Nacional do Porto
- Orquestra Sinfónica da ESART
- Orquestra Sinfónica da Póvoa de Varzim
- Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil
- Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa
- Orquestra do Algarve, official site
- Orquestra Clássica do Centro, official site
- Orquestra de Câmara de Cascais e Oeiras, official site
- Orquestra do Norte, official site
- Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa, official site
Romania
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- See List of orchestras in Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
England
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Ukraine
Vatican City