Michael Sanderling

Michael Sanderling is a German cellist and conductor active in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany. He began his career as a virtuoso cellist and discovered his calling as a conductor later in his life. He was born in East Berlin in 1967 to a musical family. His father Kurt Sanderling was a very successful conductor, and his mother Barbara Wagner was a respected double bassist. When he was five years old, he started taking cello lessons. In 1978 he enrolled at the Spezialschule für Musik Berlin, where he studied with cellist Matthias Pfaender. After he graduated in 1984,...