Banatul Philharmonic of Timișoara

The Banatul Philharmonic operates in the projection hall of the former Capitol cinema, built by the mayor's office in 1929, which was nationalized in 1956, so that in 2007 it would be taken over by the municipality of Timișoara, by a special law.

[5] Performers in Timișoara during this period included pianists Béla Bartók and Johannes Brahms; baritone Gheorghe Dima [ro]; cellist David Popper; and violinists Leopold Auer, George Enescu, Joseph Joachim, Jan Kubelík, František Ondříček, Pablo de Sarasate and Henryk Wieniawski.

[8] Guest conductors have included Kurt Herbert Adler, Roberto Benzi, Anatole Fistoulari, Kiril Kondrashin, Stanisław Wisłocki and Adone Zecchi [it].

Guest soloists with the orchestra have included pianists Dimitri Bashkirov, Julius Katchen and Rudolf Kehrer; violinists Ivry Gitlis, Gidon Kremer, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Spivakov and Josef Suk; and cellists Miloš Sádlo and Daniil Shafran.

[6] Other performers in Timișoara have included pianists Annie Fischer, Artur Rubinstein, Alexandra Vizman and Carlo Zecchi; violinists Bronisław Huberman, Fritz Kreisler, Jacques Thibaud and Eugène Ysaÿe; and cellists Pablo Casals and Gregor Piatigorsky.