Born and educated in Berlin, Michael Sanderling is one of the most highly sought-after conductors of his generation. Many engagements with leading orchestras and a highly successful artistic collaboration with the renowned Dresden Philharmonie have earned Sanderling an international reputation as a conductor. Sanderling opened his tenure as Principal Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonie at the beginning of the 2011-12 season and will continue in this capacity through the 2018-2019 season. He was previously Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Kammerakademie Potsdam from 2006 to 2010. Sanderling has conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras, among them Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Munich Philharmonie, the Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberg Symphony, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Stuttgart, Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig and Hannover, the Strasbourg Philharmonie Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonie Orchestra and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the highly praised new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s monumental War and Peace at the Cologne Opera. In addition to several return engagements, in 2015 and 2016 he will be making his conducting debuts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Michael Sanderling is devoted to working with talented young musicians. He was Principal Conductor of the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie for several years and most recently has worked with Germany’s Bundesjugendorchester, the Jerusalem Weimar Youth Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra. In addition to late-Romantic Symphonie works, he also focuses on the works of Shostakovich and repertoire from the Classical period. As a Champion ofNew Music, he has given many premiere performances of works by Contemporary composers.
