Established in 1935 as the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana, in 2025 the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (OSI) celebrates its 90th anniversary, continuing to enjoy great success. As the Resident Orchestra at the LAC (Lugano Arte e Cultura, Ticino, Switzerland), the OSI is also enthusiastically received by audiences and critics alike in the major theatres and concert halls across Europe, from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna to the Philharmonie in Berlin, from the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg to the Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne, and from the Opernhaus in Frankfurt to the Prinzregententheater in Munich. From 2022 the Principal Guest Conductor of the OSI is Krzysztof Urbański. Its rich concert programming has seen the orchestra collaborate with a wide range of other conductors and soloists: among the most popular of these are the pianist Martha Argerich and the cellist Sol Gabetta. Having been bestowed with the prestigious international ICMA award for the first time in 2018 for their recording of Brahms’s complete symphonies on DVD (SONY Classical), the OSI won their second ICMA in January 2025 for their CD of works by Paul Hindemith and Alfred Schnittke (on the ECM New Series label).