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Stefan Sanderling
Conductor,
Music Director
German-born Stefan
Sanderling is also music director of The Florida Orchestra in
Tampa/St. Petersburg and principal conductor of the Toledo Symphony
Orchestra. Since his North American debut at the 1989 Tanglewood
Summer Music Festival, Sanderling has quickly risen to the top
of the young generation of German conductors. He has conducted
such prestigious North American orchestras as the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Montreal
Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore
Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and the
orchestras of Indianapolis, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Buffalo, to
name a few.
Receiving his
early artistic inspiration from his parents, Sanderling studied
at the Leipzig Conservatory with Kurt Masur. He then moved to
the United States to continue his studies at the University of
Southern California. He also attended the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Institute, winning several awards, and Tanglewood, where he worked
with Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Slatkin and Yuri
Termikanov.
Celebrated for
his interpretation of the music of Shostakovich, Sanderling has
conducted across Europe, leading such legendary orchestras as
the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic,
Mozarteum Orchestra (Salzburg), Prague Symphony, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie,
Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Staatskapelle, NDR Symphony Orchestra
Hamburg, Bamberg Symphony, Vienna Radio Symphony, Berliner Sinfonie
Orchester and Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn among many
others. He has also guest conducted the Deutsche Oper Berlin
and Komische Oper Berlin.
During the past
several seasons, Sanderling made his debuts in Australia with
the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and in Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon
Symphony Orchestra. His highly successful appearances with the
NHK Symphony of Tokyo continue on a regular basis, and he also
appeared in Japan with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Osaka
Philharmonic as well as the Super World Orchestra Tokyo.
He has appeared
several times with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra with whom
he has recorded the complete symphonies of Honneger for the Naxos
label.
Sanderling made
his first recording on the Sony Classics label with the London
Symphony Orchestra. Three highly acclaimed recordings with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have been released on the RPO label,
featuring symphonies by Haydn and Mendelssohn. He has recorded
the complete Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suites with the National
Symphony Orchestra of Ireland on the Naxos label. Most recently,
he completed several discs of works by the French composers Gretry,
Ladmirault, Gossec, and Mehul on the ASV label with the Orchestre
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