Florian Donderer (born 1969
retrieved 18 May 2021. in Berlin) is a German violinist and conductor.

Career

Donderer's parents were also musicians: his father a cellist, his mother a flautist. Donderer studied violin in London and Berlin, where he was a scholarship holder at the Karajan Academy of the

Berlin Philharmonic The Berlin Philharmonic (german: Berliner Philharmoniker, links=no, italic=no) is a German orchestra based in Berlin. It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected orchestras in the world. History The Berlin Philharmonic was fo ...

..ruhrtriennale.de/en/programm/kuenstler/florian-donderer/index.html Ruhrtriennale 2014 Archive, ''Florian Donderer''
retrieved 18 May 2021. Since 1999 he has been concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, at whose academy he also teaches, as well as concertmaster of the and has also been playing in the Signum Quartet since 2016. In 2010, he made his first appearance as conductor with the Ensemble Oriol and Christiane Oelze at a concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. He has been artistic director of the music festival ''Sommersprossen'' in

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since 2019. He has played at the

Spannungen Spannungen ("Tensions" or "Voltages") is an annual summer festival for chamber music in Heimbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998. It is subtitled Musik im Kraftwerk Heimbach (Music in the Heimbach power pla ...

chamber music festival in

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. Donderer plays a violin by

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from 2003.

Private life

Donderer is married to the cellist

Tanja Tetzlaff Tanja Tetzlaff (born 1973) is a German cellist. She played first as an orchestra member, but then as a soloist, a founding member of the Tetzlaff Quartet, a string quartet led by her brother Christian Tetzlaff, and as a chamber musician. She has ...

they have two children.Reha-Klinik am Sendesaal, 15 April 2019, ''Tag der offenen Tür am 19. Mai, Kurzkonzerte im Sendesaal Bremen''
retrieved 18 May 2021.

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