Thomas Sanderling
After graduating from the Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory and the Music Academy in East Berlin Thomas Sanderling started his career at the age of twenty-four as the Music Director of the Halle Opera; he had regular appearances with most of the
Biography
After graduating from the Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory and the Music Academy in East Berlin Thomas Sanderling started his career at the age of twenty-four as the Music Director of the Halle Opera; he had regular appearances with most of the East German orchestras including the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Komische Oper Berlin. He attracted Shostakovich’s attention who asked him to première his Thirteenth and Fourteenth Symphony in East Germany and to make the world première recording of The Michelangelo Suite, the composer’s last orchestral work.
Until 1983 Thomas Sanderling was the permanent Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin; he then moved to the West where he appeared at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Frankfurt Oper, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Royal Danish Opera, the Finnish National Opera and “La Fenice” in Venice.
Additionally to his successful opera career Thomas Sanderling conducted many symphony concerts. He appeared with renowned ensembles like the orchestras in Dallas, Baltimore, Vancouver, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Montreal; in Europe he worked with the Vienna Symphony, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and orchestras in Dresden, Liverpool, Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki. Many concert tours led him to Japan; he is the lifetime Music Director Laureate with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra which he led as their principal conductor for ten years. In Russia, he frequently performed with the Great Radio Symphony and the St Petersburg Philharmonic. He also served as Music Director of the Russian Philharmonic.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he resigned from his positions as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the orchestra in Novosibirsk.
Thomas Sanderling | conductor
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