The Detmolder Kammerorchester (Detmold Chamber Orchestra) is a German chamber orchestra based in

Detmold Detmold () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of . It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947. Today it is the administrative center of ...

. The current music director is German-Chilean pianist

Alfredo Perl Alfredo Perl (born in Santiago de Chile in 1965) is a Chilean-German classical pianist and conductor, best known for his recitals of Beethoven's sonatas. Biography He began playing the piano from a young age. He studied at the Chilean National Con ...

. The primary concert venue of the orchestra is the Konzerthaus Detmold. Eckhard Fischer formed the ensemble in 1989, from musicians of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.

Christoph Poppen Christoph Poppen (born 9 March 1956) is a German conductor, violinist and academic teacher. Career Poppen was born in Münster. As a violinist, he was awarded first prize in the Kocian Violin Competition age 14. He studied the violin with Kur ...

was the first director of the orchestra, starting in 1989. Fischer took over the artistic directorship of the ensemble in 1996. The orchestra receives funding from the ''Ministerium für Städtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport'' (Ministry of Urban Design and Housing, Culture and Sport) and the City of Detmold. In addition to concerts in Detmold, the orchestra performs in other German cities such as

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Emden Emden () is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia and, in 2011, had a total population of 51,528. History The exact founding date of E ...

Extertal Extertal is a municipality in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with c. 11,500 inhabitants (2013). Extertal is located on the northern edge of the circle in the Teutoburg Nature Reserve, directly adjacent to Lower Saxony. The ...

, Gütersloh,

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, Rinteln, Waldshut,

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and

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External links

Detmolder Kammerorchester
website
ECM biography of Christoph Poppen
German orchestras Musical groups established in 1989 {{Germany-band-stub