Bamberg Symphony

The Bamberg Symphony (German: Bamberger Symphoniker – Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie) is a German professional orchestra that has resided in Bamberg since being founded in 1946 and regularly tours internationally. The Bamberg Symphony was founded in 1946 by musicians who as a result of the Beneš decrees had been driven out of Bohemia, Moravia, the Czech Sudetenland as well as from German cities and had ended up in Bamberg. The "core" of the orchestra comprised former members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra Prague. The first concert of the orchestra was performed on March 20, 1946, in Bamberg.