Michael Zukernik
Michael Zukernik is the musical director of the Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Berlin and founder of Concert Media AG.
Life
At the age of 19, Michael Zukernik, trained as a classical drummer, became the youngest member of the Israeli symphony orchestra Rishon LeZion .
In the course of his subsequent career he performed as a solo timpanist with ensembles such as the Spanish Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunya and the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand . Michael Zukernik took his first conducting lessons with Jorma Panula to Finland , Sweden , Germany , Russia and Croatia . He also took part in master classes by Colin Metters , Leif Segerstam , Otto Werner Mueller , Gennady Rozhdestvensky , Vladimir_Ponkin, Gustav Meier , Janosh Fürst , Sir Colin Davis and Pierre Boulez .
He completed his extensive conducting studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin , at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. He then stood at numerous conducting desks in Germany, including the Staatskapelle Weimar , the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra , the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn , the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the New Westphalia Philharmonic , in the Victoria Hall in Geneva, in the Berlin Philharmonic in the Berlin Cathedral , in the Beethovenhalle in Bonn and in the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
Internationally, he has had engagements with the Sinfonica di Roma , the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra Svetlanov, the Russian National Orchestra , the State Academic Symphony Orchestra St. Petersburg, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra , the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Manukau City Symphony Orchestra in New Zealand and the Macao Orchestra in the People's Republic of China. In addition, in the 2011/2012 season he was first guest conductor with the State Academic Philharmonic Orchestra in Samara, Russia.
Michael Zukernik worked in particular with the pianist Andrei Gavrilov , performing with him, for example, at the Kodály Center in Pécs ( Hungary ), the Konzerthaus Berlin , the Tonhalle Zurich and the Culture and Congress Center Lucerne (KKL).
In 2002 he founded the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra . The ensemble played in concert halls in Germany and Switzerland, especially in the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig . Zukernik took his chamber orchestra on a tour of South Korea , where he conducted over ten concerts. A China tour followed. The concerts took place at the Shanghai Opera House and the Beijing Cultural Center. Michael Zukernik's repertoire includes composition from baroque to modern opera. He is fluent in Russian , German , English , French , Hebrew and Spanish .
He currently lives in Zurich with his wife and two children .
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Zukernik, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |