Florian Donderer

German violinist and conductor

Classical violinist
Conductor

OrganizationsDeutsche Kammerphilharmonie BremenSpouseTanja Tetzlaff

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

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]

References

^ ^a ^b Schwarzwälder Bote vom 17. Juni 2019, Handy in die Tasche und zuhören, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ heimatreport.de vom 24. Juni 2011, Sommerliches Konzert im Raesfelder Rittersaal, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c .ruhrtriennale.de/en/programm/kuenstler/florian-donderer/index.html Ruhrtriennale 2014 Archive, Florian Donderer^{[permanent dead link]}, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ nmz.de/artikel/11-fragen-an-florian-donderer Neue Musikzeitung (nmz.de) 12/2016, 11 Questions for Florian Donderer, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ kreiszeitung.de 6 June 2019, Interview: Tanja Tetzlaff and Florian Donderer on chamber music in the Sendesaal, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ fonoforum of 10. July 2018, Signum Quartet | Schubert: From afar, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ pizzicato.lu, 13 June 2016, Florian Donderer new primarius of the Signum Quartet, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ Neue Rottweiler Kreiszeitung (nrwz.de) Kultur, dated 18. June 2020, Rottweil: no freckles, but "Sommersprössle", retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ Vita of Florian Donderer^{[permanent dead link]}, (PDF from the artist homepage, 16 kB), retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ concerti.de vom 27. April 2016, Gefühle auf vier Saiten, retrieved 18 May 2021.
^ Reha-Klinik am Sendesaal, 15 April 2019, Tag der offenen Tür am 19. Mai, Kurzkonzerte im Sendesaal Bremen, retrieved 18 May 2021.