Michael Sanderling

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Michael Sanderling in the Gewandhaus Leipzig (2016)

Michael Sanderling (born February 21, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a German conductor and cellist .

biography

Sanderling, son of the double bass player Barbara Sanderling and the conductor Kurt Sanderling , received his first violoncello lessons at the age of five with Liselotte Schordan in Berlin. At the age of 11 he became a student of Matthias Pfaender at the Special School for Music in Berlin . At the age of 17 he was accepted at the “Hanns Eisler” University of Music in Berlin , where he studied with Josef Schwab . Consultations also led him to, among others, William Pleeth , Yo-Yo Ma , Gary Hoffman and Lynn Harrell . In 1987 he won first prize at the International Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona and in the same year, after his solo debut with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, he was engaged by Kurt Masur as the orchestra's principal cellist, where he was active until 1992. From 1994 to 2006 he was a solo cellist with a guest contract in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra . From 1994 to 1998 he taught violoncello at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. In 1998 he moved to the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts . Between 2000 and 2003 he was a professor at the Bern University of the Arts .

Michael Sanderling at a public concert in Potsdam's Nikolaisaal (2011)

Sanderling lives in Frankfurt am Main .

Concert career as a cellist

The orchestras with which Michael Sanderling has performed as a soloist include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester de Paris , the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra . His chamber music partners include Elisabeth Leonskaja , Julia Fischer , Martin Helmchen and Veronika Eberle . From 1988 to 1996 he was a member of the Trio Ex Aequo . Michael Sanderling has not appeared as a soloist since 2010, but instead devotes himself exclusively to his duties as a conductor in addition to his educational work.

Career as a conductor

Michael Sanderling made his debut as a conductor on November 25, 2000 with a concert by the Berlin Chamber Orchestra in the Berlin Philharmonic . Since then he has gradually taken on conducting. In 2003 he became chief conductor of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie , with whom he appeared in guest performances in major German concert halls, at the Dresden Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival , in Montenegro , Norway , China and Malaysia and at the Young Euro Classic in Berlin. From 2006 to 2010 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Potsdam Chamber Academy . During this time he studied the opera of Philip Glass ' The Fall of the House of Usher , a tour of Germany in 2007 with Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott as well as appearances at the Rheingau Music Festival and a tour to Spain in 2009 In 2008, works for small orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich were also published by Sony .

In 2010 the Dresden Philharmonic chose Michael Sanderling as its chief conductor. He took over the post from Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1933-2014) from the 2011/12 season. In 2011 he directed the new production of Sergej Prokofiev's opera War and Peace at the Cologne Opera . In 2012 his contract as chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic was extended up to and including the 2018/19 season.

During the years of his activity as chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, all of Ludwig van Beethoven's and Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonies were recorded on CD and published on the SONY Classical label.

On November 27, 2016, Sanderling announced in a letter to Dresden's mayor of culture, Annekatrin Klepsch , that he would not extend his contract beyond 2019. He justified this with a planned reduction of the orchestra budget by 250,000 euros annually, which had not been agreed with him beforehand.

As a guest conductor, Michael Sanderling has led the Berlin Philharmonic , the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Munich Philharmonic , the Wiener Symphoniker , the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich , the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne .

At the beginning of the 2021/22 season, Michael Sanderling will become chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra .

CD productions as a conductor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Zacher : 33rd Dresden Music Festival: Michael Sanderling with the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie . In: Leipziger-Volkszeitung , May 29, 2010 - Edition: Dresdner Latest News, section: Culture
  2. ↑ Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie and Michael Sanderling on tour ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). July 28, 2010
  3. ↑ The Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie on tour of Asia ( Memento of October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  4. ↑ Young Euro Classic Program 2009 ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Dr. Gabriele Minz GmbH at http://www.young-euro-classic.de/ . Retrieved July 28, 2010.
  5. ↑ Antje Rößler: A maestro says goodbye . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , May 17, 2010
  6. ^ Jürgen Otten: Journey to the end of the night . Online portal of the Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on July 29, 2010
  7. ^ The Potsdam Chamber Academy ( Memento from September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Website of the Potsdam Chamber Academy. Retrieved July 29, 2010
  8. ↑ Michael Sanderling becomes the new head of the Philharmonie . WORLD online ; October 25, 2010. Retrieved October 26, 2010
  9. ↑ RECORDINGS. November 21, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .
  10. ↑ NZZ of November 21, 2019: Michael Sanderling becomes chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. November 21, 2019, accessed November 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sanderling, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and cellist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin