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Philharmonia Orchestra
The
Philharmonia Orchestra
is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by
Walter Legge
, a classical music record producer for
EMI
. Since 1995, the orchestra has been based in the
Royal Festival Hall
. The Philharmonia also has residencies at
De Montfort Hall
,
Leicester
, the
Corn Exchange, Bedford
, and
The Anvil, Basingstoke
.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
has been the orchestra's principal conductor and artistic advisor since 2008, and
Vladimir Ashkenazy
and
Christoph von Dohnányi
both conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra regularly.
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