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residential Symphony Orchestra is one of the oldest orchestras in the world that has been able to operate without any interruptions. In 1828, reformist sultan, Mahmud II invited Giuseppe Donizetti (brother of the Gaetano Donizetti) to come to Istanbul from the imperial palace of Austria-Hungary to lead the band. The band was called Muzika-i Humayun (the Imperial Band) and it has been performing solely in the palace.

In 1934 Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun and a year after well-known German composer Paul Hindemith were in charge of organizing the programs of the music schools in Turkey. At the suggestion of composer Paul Hindemith, Maestro Dr. Ernst Praetorius was appointed as the new Music Director and he elevated the orchestra to new artistic levels.

After the death of Praetorius, the orchestra worked for many years under the famous conductors like Hasan Ferit Alnar, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and many others. Especially Lessing did not only conduct and record many premiers of contemporary Turkish music, but he also has created a new excitement for classical music in the entire community.

Presidential Symphony Orchestra made a name in the international music scene and performed in many European countries such as: Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Spain, Poland, England, Hungary, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, as well as Russia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, South Korea, Japan, USA, China and received positive critics from the world’s well known cultural centers.

CSO also worked with the world renowned conductors such as: Louis Fremaux, Lukas Foss, Walters Susskind, Jiri Belohlavek, Aaron Copland, Jean Perisson, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Karsten Andersen, Bruno Aprea, Massimo Pradella, Tadeusz Strugala, Marek Pijarowski, Andris Poga, Cansug Kahidze, Gilbert Varga, Christian Jarvi, Anatol Fistullari, Hermann Scherhen, George Pehlivanian, Michel Tabachnik, Alexander Rahbari.

The orchestra collaborated with notable soloists like Andre Navarra, Yehudi Menuhin, Wilhelm kempff, Joaquin Rodrigo, Albricht Mayer, Jean Pierre Rampal, Igor Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Raphael Wallfisch, Hagai Shaham, Truls Mork, Viktor Pikayzen, Julian Rachlin, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Valeri Klimov, Grigory Sokolov, Peter Katin, Gary Karr, Stefan Ruha, Maria Kliegel, Elina Vahala, Robert Cohen, Aurèle Nicolet, Janos Starker, Yuri Bashmet, Valeri Oistrakh, Baiba Skride, Mintcho Mintchev, Andor Foldes, Alexander Markov, Johannes Moser, Vaclav Hudecek, Karl Leister, Lothar Koch, Alirio Diaz, Paul Badura Skoda, Natalia Gutman, Sarah Chang, Antonio Meneses, Stefan Dohr, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Roby Lakatos, Shlomo Mintz, Alexander Rudin, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Angela Gheorghiu, Jose Carreras and many others.

Well known state artists like Suna Kan, Ayla Erduran, Ayşegül Sarıca, İdil Biret, Gülay Uğurata, Gülsin Onay, Verda Erman, Hüseyin Sermet collaborated with the orchestra closely, as well as world famous Turkish soloists like Ayhan Baran, Ruşen Güneş, Gülşen Tatu, Güher - Süher Pekinel, Ferhan - Ferzan Önder, Fazıl Say, Muhittin Dürrüoğlu.

The orchestra was conducted by permanent Turkish Chief Conductors such as State Artist Prof. Hikmet Şimşek, State Artist Prof. Gürer Aykal (1988), State Artist Prof. Rengim Gökmen (2007), Prof. Erol Erdinç (2011), Selman Ada (2014). Prof. Rengim Gökmen (2015) has been conducting the orchestra, since 2020 - 2021 Concert Season Cemi'i Can Deliorman is new Music Director and Principal Conductor.

​Besides the periodic concerts, the orchestra has given more than two thousands concerts around every corner of the country, recorded TV concerts and educational projects for children, youth and has pioneered to introduce, to diffuse and to attach music culture in all parts of Turkey.

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Dünyanın en köklü sanat kurumlarından biri olan Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası, 200 yıla yaklaşan tarihi içinde, sanat hayatında hiçbir kesintiye uğramadan sürekliliğini korumuş ender sanat kurumlarından biridir. Cumhuriyet’e kadar orkestranın adı “​Muzıka-i Hümayun”dur ve bu aşamadaki faaliyetleri saraya özeldir. Avusturya-Macaristan İmparatorluk Sarayı’ndan İstanbul’a davet edilen Giuseppe Donizetti orkestranın şefliğine getirilmiş, çoksesli müzik kültürü kısa zamanda benimsenmiş ve kurumsallaşmıştır.
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Orkestra 27 Nisan 1924’te Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’ün emri ile Ankara’ya taşınmış, yepyeni bir anlayışla, halkın kültür ve sanat düzeyini yükseltmek amacıyla faaliyet gösteren öncü bir sanat kurumu niteliği kazanmıştır. Atatürk’ün yüce makamının adını vererek onurlandırdığı orkestra (​Riyaseti Cumhur Filarmoni Orkestrası​) aynı zamanda Cumhuriyet tarihinin ilk müzik kurumu olmuştur. Büyük Atatürk’ün öngördüğü sanat ve müzik ilkeleri ışığında, çoksesli müzik kültürünün gelişmesi ve uluslararası düzeyde en yüksek seviyede temsil edilebilmesi amaçlanmıştır.

1934 – 1935 yıllarında önce Ahmed Adnan Saygun, sonrasında ünlü Alman besteci Paul Hindemith müzik eğitimi veren kurumların programlarını oluşturmakla görevlendirilmiştir. Bu dönem Paul Hindemith’in önerisi ile Alman Orkestra Şefi Dr. Ernst Praetorius orkestranın daimi şefliğine getirilmiştir. Değerli bir orkestra pedagogu olan Praetorius orkestra repertuvarını genişletmiş ve kurumun sanatsal seviyesini uluslararası düzeye taşımıştır.

Praetorius’un vefatı üzerine 1946 yılında orkestranın 1. Şefliği görevine Hasan Ferit Alnar getirilmiş, sonrasında Gotthold Ephraim Lessing başta olmak üzere orkestrayı pek çok ünlü orkestra şefi yönetmiştir. Lessing, orkestranın yurt içi ve yurt dışı konserlerinde büyük başarı sağlamış, özellikle Çağdaş Türk Bestecileri’nin ilk icralarına önem vermiş ve ilk kayıtlarını gerçekleştirmiştir.

1957 yılından sonra uluslararası platformlarda da adını duyuran Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası başta Almanya, Avusturya, Bulgaristan, Romanya, Yugoslavya, İtalya, Fransa, İsviçre, İsveç, Norveç, Finlandiya, İspanya, Polonya, Çek Cumhuriyeti, İngiltere, Macaristan gibi önemli Avrupa ülkeleri olmak üzere, Rusya, Kırgızistan, Kazakistan, İran, Irak, Katar, Güney Kore, Japonya, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ve Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti gibi birçok farklı ülkede konserler gerçekleştirmiş, bu turnelerde aldığı olumlu kriterlerle Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin kültürel varlığının tanıtılmasında pay sahibi olmuştur.

Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası, Louis Fremaux, Lukas Foss, Walters Susskind, Jiri Belohlavek, Aaron Copland, Jean Perisson, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Karsten Andersen, Bruno Aprea, Massimo Pradella, Tadeusz Strugala, Marek Pijarowski, Andris Poga, Gilbert Varga, Christian Jarvi, Anatol Fistullari, Hermann Scherhen, George Pehlivanian, Michel Tabachnik, Alexander Rahbari gibi birçok tanınmış şefle çalışmıştır.

Andre Navarra, Yehudi Menuhin, Wilhelm kempff, Joaquin Rodrigo, Albricht Mayer, Jean Pierre Rampal, Igor Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Raphael Wallfisch, Hagai Shaham, Truls Mork, Viktor Pikayzen, Julian Rachlin, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier, Valeri Klimov, Grigory Sokolov, Peter Katin, Gary Karr, Stefan Ruha, Maria Kliegel, Elina Vahala, Robert Cohen, Aurèle Nicolet, Janos Starker, Yuri Bashmet, Valeri Oistrakh, Baiba Skride, Mintcho Mintchev, Andor Foldes, Alexander Markov, Johannes Moser, Vaclav Hudecek, Karl Leister, Lothar Koch, Alirio Diaz, Paul Badura Skoda, Natalia Gutman, Sarah Chang, Antonio Meneses, Stefan Dohr, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Roby Lakatos, Shlomo Mintz, Alexander Rudin, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Angela Gheorghiu, Jose Carreras gibi tanınmış uluslararası solistler orkestraya konuk olmuşlardır.

​Devlet sanatçılarımız; Suna Kan, Ayla Erduran, Ayşegül Sarıca, İdil Biret, Gülay Uğurata, Gülsin Onay, Verda Erman, Hüseyin Sermet orkestranın daimi solist sanatçıları olmuş aynı zamanda orkestra; Ayhan Baran, Ruşen Güneş, Gülşen Tatu, Güher – Süher Pekinel, Ferhan – Ferzan Önder, Fazıl Say, Muhittin Dürrüoğlu gibi birçok değerli Türk solist sanatçı ile konserler gerçekleştirmiştir.

Orkestranın daimi Türk şefleri arasında Hikmet Şimşek (1959), Gürer Aykal (1988), Rengim Gökmen (2007), Erol Erdinç (2011), Selman Ada (2014), Rengim Gökmen (2015) bulunmaktadır. Orkestranın daimi şefliğini 2020 – 2021 konser sezonundan itibaren Cemi’i Can Deliorman yapmaktadır.

Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası, periyodik konserleri dışında Ankara’da 2000 den fazla radyo-televizyon, gençlik ve halk konserleri gerçekleştirmiştir. Çocuklara yönelik açıklamalı eğitim konseri ile beraber “Kampüste Senfonik Akşamlar” turneleri ile 36 farklı kampüste on binlerce gence ulaşmıştır.

Cumhuriyet tarihimizin en önemli kazanımlarından biri olan Cumhurbaşkanlığı Senfoni Orkestrası, birçok farklı alanda yürüttüğü özverili ve başarılı çalışmalarına aynı kararlılıkla devam etmektedir.

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