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Michael Sanderling principal conductor Michael Sanderling, one of the mostdistinguished conductors of our time, has been the principal conductor ofthe Dresden Philharmonie since 2011. In April 2017 the Dresden Philharmonie moved into the newly renovated concert hall at the Kulturpalast, with the inaugural performance conducted by Michael Sonderling. He is also guest conductor of renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Munich Philharmonie, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonie Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow, the Czech Philharmonie, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the German Radio Symphony Orchestras of WDR and SWR. With the Dresden Philharmonie, Michael Sanderling regularly undertakes concert tours in Asia, South America, the USA, Spain, the UK, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. With Dresden Philharmonie, Michael Sonderling is currently recording for SONY Classical all of the symphonies by Beethoven and Shostakovich, with the the first four CDs of the series already released. Born in Berlin, Michael Sanderling became solo Cellist of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Kurt Masur in 1987, and, from 1994 to 2006, he held the same position in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. As soloist, he gave guest performances with ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonie and the Orchestre de Paris. As a Cellist however, he stopped performing a long time ago. Michael Sanderling first graced the conductors stand with the Kammerorchester Berlin in 2000. Having been familiär with the art of conducting from a young age, as son of the legendary Kurt Sanderling, Michael Sanderling took on more and more conducting roles, and was named the principal conductor and artistic director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam in 2006. As an opera conductor, he enjoyed success with Philip Glass' The Fall ofthe House of Usher in Potsdam, and with a new production of Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace at the Cologne Opera. As cellist and conductor, he recorded important works by Dvorak, Schumann, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and many others on CD. One of Michael Sanderling's passions is working with young musicians. He teaches atthe University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt/Main and regularly works with the Bundesjugendorchester (National Youth Orchestra of Germany), the Young Philharmonie Orchestra Jerusalem Weimar, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Schleswig- Holstein-Festivalorchester. From 2003 to 2013, he was the principal conductor for the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie. Michael Sanderling's musical horizons ränge from Bach and Handel, to Beethoven and Shostakovich, to now many world premieres.