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Reaching beyond Switzerland from the 1930s, the fame of the orchestra later attracted guest Conductors including Bruno Walter , Wilhelm Furtwängler , Ernest Ansermet , Hans Knappertsbusch , Ferenc Fricsay , Rafael Kubelik , Günter Wand , Kurt Sanderling , Horst Stein , Yuri Ahronovitch and Eliahu Inbal . From 1990 to 2004, its principal conductor was Russian Dmitri Kitaenko from St. Petersburg. Previous music directors include Charles Dutoit , Gustav Kuhn , Paul Klecki and Peter Maag . Another young Russian, Andrey Boreyko , has taken over as principal conductor from 2005/2006.

The Bern Symphony Orchestra gives around 40 symphony concerts each season. It also acts as the opera orchestra for the City Theatre Of Berne .


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