Radio Television Malaysia also has an orchestra based in Kuching, Sarawak, which also houses the amateur Orkestra Kuching. None of the above mentioned orchestras however have a full set of full time players in all sections, though Petronas is currently in the process of setting up a full time western art music based orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra . The orchestra is expected to perform its first concert in mid 1998. Chamber music groups are as few and far between as full size orchestras. The three most notable ones are the Camerata , which in 1995 was made up of a sub-section of players from the National Symphony Orchestra but which has since been disbanded, the Kuala Lumpur Chamber Players which consist of a few local musicians who team up with various foreign invited musicians to give concerts from time to time, and the Baroque Choristers which as their name suggests focus on western baroque vocal music.
None are full time professional bodies.
Besides these, the amateur Selangor Philharmonic Society organises large scale choral based productions comprising classically trained as well as untrained local singers from time to time. In conclusion, on the whole, the state of western art music instrument study in Malaysia can be said to be still backward and underdeveloped.