Renowned for its exceptionally creative programming and a homogeneity of timbre that can only come from seventy years of joint music making – the Münchener Kammerorchester (MKO) is blazing a trail for orchestras in Germany and beyond. The core of the ensemble consists of twenty-eight string players, all full members of the MKO. In collaboration with a fixed pool of elite principal wind players from Europe’s leading orchestras, the MKO performs as a slender symphony orchestra with great versatility in terms of repertoire, style and structure. MKO currently has Enrico Onofri , Jörg Widmann and Bas Wiegers as their Associate Conductors, in addition to guest conductors as well as unconducted projects lead by the orchestra’s concert masters Yuki Kasai & Daniel Giglberger Contemporary Music being a core element of the Orchestra's identity, MKO has premiered over eighty new works by composers including Iannis Xenakis, Wolfgang Rihm, Tan Dun, Chaya Czernowin, Georg Friedrich Haas, Pascal Dusapin, Salvatore Sciarrino and Jörg Widmann. Composers such as Beat Furrer, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Thomas Larcher, Milica Djordjevic, Clara Iannotta, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Mark Andre, Peter Ruzicka, Marton Illes, Miroslav Srnka and Tigran Mansurian have fulfilled commissions from the MKO.