Royal Flemish Philharmonic

Koninklijke Filharmonie van Vlaanderen, also known as deFilharmonie, is a Belgian symphony orchestra based in Antwerp, renamed to in April 2017. It was established as Antwerpse Philharmonie in 1956 by a producer Gaston Ariën, who assembled a group of musicians to stage George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in Belgium. Jef Maes, Steve Candael, and Johan Adriaan Zwijsen were co-founders of the ensemble. The debut performan…