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

Florian Donderer
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Berlin
Occupations
  • Classical violinist
  • Conductor
OrganizationsDeutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
SpouseTanja Tetzlaff

Career

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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

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

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