The city of Satu Mare is located in the North-West Romania, in Transylvania and enjoys a good neighborhood; to the North, there is the Romanian-Ukraine border and to the West there is the Hungarian border. This neighborhood has strongly influenced the development of the city by the mere fact that, since older times, there have been good relationships between people belonging to different nationalities. Thus each of them contributed to the enrichment of the city inheritance. Multi-Nationality containing traditions and cultural characteristics of Romanian, Hungarian, German, Slovak, Ukrainian, Jewish community, etc., is reflected in the whole cultural life of the city of Satu Mare

During a very agitated period, when the whole Europe was still suffering from the Second World War and maybe as a response to all the existing problems, Romanian cultural life came into a new and special bloom
Romanian cultural life knew a special bloom. During that period, already existing philharmonic orchestras, not so many at that time, developed a lot, but more importantly, new ones were created. City of Satu Mare already had a musical tradition. The County Conservatory existed since 1920 leaded by Adrian Demian, and in 1922 Augustin Ferentiu founded the first "Philharmonic Society". Out of the desire to maintain and make the level of the cultural life higher up in Satu Mare, in 1947 the "Philharmonic Society" is reformed and shortly after that, became "The state symphonic orchestra Satu Mare".
Of course, this would not have been possible in the absence of an artistic core willing to achieve this purpose. This core of artists already existed and has been encouraged by the fully inspirational examples provided by artists who had already performed at Satu Mare even before the official creation of the "Philharmonic Society", George Enescu and Bela Bartok are just two of the great artists that we may consider to be morally responsible for the creation of the Satu Mare Philharmonic Orchestra, by the example provided by performing in this city. From 1991 it has the name of the great Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti. The "Dinu Lipatti State Philharmonic Orchestra" not only reached a superior artistic performance, but it also developed a strong reputation, a really professional orchestra with a strong position among the consecrated Romanian and European symphony orchestras.

In Romania, the Satu Mare State Philharmonic Orchestra has a rich activity: a number of 80 concerts every year and many recitals. Every autumn, for over 30 years, we organize the "Zilele Muzicale Satmarene" festival , and we are proud of announcing the former participations of numberless guests from the high artistic elite, among which we may enumerate:Dan Grigore - piano, Romania; Miklos Perenyi - violoncello, Hungary; LadislauRooth - conductor, Mexico; Nicola Giuliani - conductor, Italy; Shynia Ozaki -conductor, Japan; Florin Croitoru -violin, Romania; Cristina Anghelescu-violin,Romania ;Robert Houlihan-conductor, Irland; Sonia Leong-piano; Daisuke Soga - conductor, Japan; Boris Petrushansky-piano; Corneliu Dumbraveanu - conductor, Holland; Ion Ivan-Roncea-harph Romania; Ilinca Dumitrescu-piano, Romania; Mordechai Sobol-conductor,Israel;Jaroslav Vodnansky-conductor, Czech; "Voces"- quartet, Romania; "Bartok" - quartet, Hungary etc.

Moreover, year by year, the Satu Mare State Philharmonic Orchestra organizes the violin contest named "Stefan Ruha", to honour one of the greatest Romanian violinists. The prize winners used to come back on the Satu Mare Philharmonic Orchestra stage every time with great pleasure, always being warmly welcomed by the public and the Satu Mare musicians.

The artistic activity of the Satu Mare State Philharmonic Orchestra is also complemented by the performances of the orchestra's members, such as the woodwind sextet, the original "M&M" duo - harp and glockenspiel , the "Rudolf" quartet and the "Consonantia" ensemble led by Dr.Rudolf Fatyol ,violonist , who is also soloist of Satu Mare Philharmonic Orchestra.

Even abroad, State Philharmonic Orchestra of Satu Mare has a very intense activity. We should simply take into consideration the fact that apart from the home concerts musical season, the Satu Mare Philharmonic has developed, every year since 1999, a micro musical season under the lead of the conductor Franz Lamprecht in the beautiful auditorium of Tonhale-Dusseldorf. Besides, during these musical seasons the orchestra has had the pleasure to perform greatartists: Gary Bennett-tenor, the unique Matthias Schlubeck - panflute, Katarzina Dondalska - coloratura soprano, Martin Rummel - cello, Rudolf Fatyol - violin, Dieter Goffing - bariton, Yoo-Kyoung Suck-piano, Korea, Thilo Dahlmann - bass, Martina Ruping - soprano, but especially, it had the pleasure to perform with the four choruses, led by the maestro Franz Lamprecht: "Chor der Landesregierung Dusseldorf", "Orathorien Chor Hilden ", "Kammerchor Dusseldorf-Urdenbach" and "Symphonischer Chor Wupertal". Together with these choruses the Philharmonic Orchestra of Satu Mare has accomplished excellent concerts with a very various repertory: W. A. Mozart-Requiem; G. Verdi-Requiem; J. Brahms-German Requiem; C. Orff-Carmina Burana; G. Faure-Requiem; F. M. Bartholdy-Elias and Paulus oratory; Ludwig van Beethoven-the Ninth Symphony. The close collaboration with maestro Franz Lamprecht and with his choruses has facilitated the performing of first auditions at Satu Mare, like G. Puccini-"Messa di Gloria" , F. Liszt - "The Strsbourg-Munster Cathedral Bells" or the difficult " Alps Symphony " by R. Strauss . Under the lead of the same conductor the Satu Mare State Phiharmonic Orchestra has participated, every summer, for more than 10 years, at the " Schloss Benrath " Music Festival , Dusseldorf - a beautiful performance with music, fireworks and play of water works and lights - where, in the wonderful park of Benrath Castle the number of spectators is over 10.000.

The abroad activity of the Satu Mare Philharmonic Orchestra does not include only Germany. As an ambassador of music,the orchestra has done many tours in all the European countries such as Salzburg, Prague, Paris, Rome, Milan, Brussels, Vienna, Strasbourg, Lucerne, Budapest, Zutphen, Odensk , Paris and even in other cities in France ; Bordeaux, Montpelier, Cannes ,etc..

It has participated at conducting master classes in Csarna(Hungary), Daisuke Soga(Japan), Vienna (Austria), Ervin Acel (Austria), Massa-Carrara(Italy), Corneliu Dumbraveanu (Holland). It had maintained its title of the "Festival Orchestra" in Martina Franca (Italy) for 5 years, five historical recordings. The Satu Mare Orchestra also had the same title at Valenzano Festival and Lunatica Festival at Massa – Carrara for 3 years.

As an ambassador of music, the Satu Mare State Philharmonic Orchestra has performed in many European cities as: Salzburg, Prague, Paris, Rome, Milan, Brussels, Viena, Strasbourg, Lucerne, Budapest, Zutphen, Odensk...