Guest soloists and conductors

In addition to many dozens of creations of compositions by Flemish or Belgian composers, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic also played the world première performances of international compositions such as Maria Golovin by Gian Carlo Menotti, Simi by Gija Kantsjeli, the Trio Concerto by Kevin Volans, the Hobo Concerto by Kalevi Aho or Magma by Erkki-Sven Tüür.

A list of soloists and conductors who have performed with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic:

1950s

Arthur Grumiaux (vn)
Jocy De Oliviera (pf)
Peter Herman Adler (c)
Alexandre Uninsky (pf)
John Browning (pf)
Henry Szeryng (vn)
Régine Crespin (S)
Artur Rubinstein (pf)

1960s

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (c)
Rudolf Firkusny (pf)
Aldo Ciccolini (pf)
Zino Francescati (vn)
Tibor Varga (vn)
Yehudi Menuhin (vn)
Wilhelm Kempf (pf)
Gennadi Rojdestvenski (c)
György Cziffra (pf)
Arthur Fiedler (c)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (pf)
Claudio Arrau (pf)
Philippe Entremont (pf)
Isaac Stern (vn)
André Cluytens (c)
Malcolm Frager (pf)
Manuel Rosenthal (c)
Hiroyuki Iwaki (c)

1970s

Narciso Yepes (git)
Radu Lupu (pf)
Géza Anda (pf)
Paul Badura-Skoda (pf)
Victoria de los Angeles (S)
Jean-Claude Casadesus (c)
Herman Krebbers (vn)
Shura Cherkassky (pf)
Efrem Kurtz (c)
Karl Richter (c)
Lukas Foss (c)
Montserrat Caballé (S)
Aram Katsjatoerjan (c)
Barry Tuckwell (hn)
Alun Francis (c)
Leonid Kogan (vn)
Felicity Lott (S)

1980s

Mstislav Rostropovitsj (vc)
Thomas Zehetmaier (vn)
Mirella Freni (S)
Placido Domingo (T)
Alexis Weissenberg (pf)
Heinrich Schiff (vc)
Christian Zimmermann (vn)
Augustin Dumay (vn)
Maria João Pires (pf)
Krystian Zimerman (pf)
Klaus Maria Brandauer (recitant)
Arturo Tamayo (c)

1990s

Luciano Pavarotti (T)
Christian Zacharias (pf)
Lucia Popp (S)
Vladimir Fedosejev (c)
Maxim Vengerov (vn)
José Van Dam (B-Bar)
JoAnn Falletta (c)
Kiri Te Kanawa (S)
George Benjamin (c)
Martha Argerich (pf)
Lothar Zagrosek (c)
Sakari Oramo (c)
Yutaka Sado (c)
Bryn Terfel (B-Bar)
Peter Eötvös (c)

2000-…

Mischa Maisky (vc)
Josep Pons (c)
Maria Bayo (S)
Leif Ove Andsnes (pf)
Michael Rudy (pf)
Christian Tetzlaff (vn)
Daniel Hope (vn)
Lars Vogt (pf)
Jean-Guihen Queyras (vc)
Pinchas Steinberg (c)
Michelle De Young (Mez)
Vadim Repin (vn)
Pepe Romero (git)
Rudolf Barshai (c)
Andreas Staier (pf)
Jorma Panula (c)