Florian Donderer

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Florian Donderer
Born1969 (age 5455)
Berlin
Occupations
  • Classical violinist
  • Conductor
Organizations Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Spouse Tanja Tetzlaff

Florian Donderer (born 1969 [1] in Berlin [2] ) is a German violinist and conductor.

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Career

Donderer's parents were also musicians: his father a cellist, his mother a flautist. [1]

Donderer studied violin in London and Berlin, where he was a scholarship holder at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. [3] Since 1999 he has been concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, at whose academy he also teaches, as well as concertmaster of the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble  [ de ] [3] [4] [5] and has also been playing in the Signum Quartet since 2016. [6] [7]

In 2010, he made his first appearance as conductor with the Ensemble Oriol and Christiane Oelze at a concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. [3] He has been artistic director of the music festival Sommersprossen in Rottweil since 2019. [8] He has played at the Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach. Donderer plays a violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner from 2003. [9]

Private life

Donderer is married to the cellist Tanja Tetzlaff they have two children. [10] [11]

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