Swiss Orchestras and their Principal Conductors

No.3 of series.

Basle Symphony Orchestra(1876; merged with Basle Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1997):

Moshe Atzmon:         1972-1986
Horst Stein:           1987-1994
Walter Weller:           1994-1997
Mario Venzago:         1997-2003
Marko Letonja:          2003-2006
Dennis Russell Davies:2006-2016
Ivor Bolton:           2016-

Berne Symphony Orchestra(1877):

Fritz Brun:            1909-1941
Luc Balmer:         1941-1964
Paul Kletzki:         1964-1966
Charles Dutoit:    1967-1978
Peter Maag:          1984-1990
Dmitri Kitaenko:   1990-2004
Andrei Boreyko:   2005-2010
Mario Venzago:    2011-

Suisse Romande Orchestra(1918):

Ernest Ansermet:         1918-1967
Paul Kletzki:           1967-1970
Wolfgang Sawallisch:   1970-1980
Horst Stein:           1980-1985
Armin Jordan:           1985-1997
Fabio Luisi:           1997-2002
Pinchas Steinberg:       2002-2005
Marek Janowski:           2005-2012
Neeme Jarvi:           2012-2016
Jonathan Nott:           2017-

Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich(1868):

Volkmar Andreae:      1906-1949
Erich Schmid:           1949-1957
Hans Rosbaud:           1957-1962
Rudolf Kempe:           1965-1972
Gerd Albrecht:           1975-1980
Christoph Eschenbach:1982-1986
Hiroshi Wakasugi:      1987-1991
David Zinman:           1995-2014
Lionel Bringuier:         2014-

Orchester Musikkollegium, Winterthur(1875):

Hermann Scherchen:      1921-1950
Franz Welser-Most:        1987-1990
Janos Furst:           1990-1994
Heinrich Schiff:           1995-2001
Jac van Steen:           2002-2008
Douglas Boyd:           2009-2016
Thomas Zehetmair:        2016-