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Stefan Sanderling
Principal Conductor
Stefan Sanderling has swiftly emerged as one of the leading German conductors of his generation. Since 2003, he has simultaneously occupied the positions of Music Director of The Florida Orchestra serving Tampa Bay and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
Stefan Sanderling was born in East Berlin in 1964, son of the legendary conductor Kurt Sanderling. He studied musicology at the University of Halle and conducting at the conservatory in Leipzig before leaving East Germany to continue his studies in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California.
As one of the youngest chief conductors in Germany, Stefan Sanderling first held this position at the Brandenburgische Philharmonie and the Potsdam Opera in 1990. After five years he went on to become Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra and Staatstheater in Mainz until 2001. Between 1997 and 2004 he also served as Music Director of the Orchestre de Bretagne in France.
After the fall of the iron curtain, he returned to his native Germany where his career ascended rapidly. Stefan Sanderling has conducted the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Symphony, NTO (Vienna), Mozarteum Orchestra (Salzburg), Prague Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Staatskapelle, NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, Bamberg Symphony, Berliner Sinfonie Orchester and St. Petersburg Philharmonic. He has also guest conducted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Komische Oper Berlin. He made his debuts in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and in Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. His highly successful debut with the NHK Symphony of Tokyo has since resulted in regular appearances with this orchestra in Tokyo and throughout Japan.
Since his North American debut at the 1989 Tanglewood Summer Music Festival, he has led such prestigious North American orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and the orchestras of Indianapolis, Vancouver, Colorado, Salt Lake City and Ottawa to name only a few.
Sanderling made his first recording on the Sony Classics label with the London Symphony Orchestra. Three CDs with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra have recently been released, featuring symphonies by Haydn and Mendelssohn. He has recorded the complete Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suites and Stravinsky’s ballet Pulcinella on the Naxos label. He also has completed several discs of works by the French composers Gretry, Gossec and Mehul and Ladmirault on the ASV and Arion label. His most recent recording, symphonies and tone poems by Honegger, has been released on Naxos.
Jeffrey Pollock
Resident Conductor
Jeffrey Pollock is an international conductor known for the musicality of his performances, his innovative concert programming, and for his ability to make connections with audiences. Currently in his second year as the Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony in northwest Ohio, he crafts all of the orchestra’s 50+ community concerts, pops offerings and family events. This season he will make his Classics Series debut and is likewise being featured on the Mozart and More Series.
Mr. Pollock has worked with orchestras all across North America including the Houston, Nashville, Charlotte, Cleveland Chamber, Kitchener-Waterloo and Niagara Symphony orchestras and has also given chamber orchestra performances with members of the Baltimore Symphony and the Tulsa Philharmonic.
While he was the
Associate Conductor with the Fort Worth Symphony, he created a brand-new series
of sold-out family and education concerts and conducted over 100 performances
of classical run-outs, young people’s and other special programs. On the
FWS Star-Telegram pops series, Mr. Pollock worked with headliners such as
Roberta Flack, Randy Newman and Wynonna Judd to great acclaim. As
music director for the York Symphony Orchestra in Canada, his non-traditional
programming attracted new audiences and brought critical acclaim for the
orchestra. Equally at home in the world of opera, he has worked for the Baltimore Opera Company, Opera
Delaware and has led productions of The Barber of Seville, The
Turn of the Screw, and Cavalleria Rusticana. He
has also been invited to return numerous times to conduct the North Carolina
and Fort Worth Symphonies.
In 2001, along
with Giancarlo Guerrero (now of Nashville) and Carlos Miguel Prieto (of
Louisiana), he was chosen by the League of American Orchestras to be featured
in their prestigious National Conductor Preview. Pollock’s education
took place at the Peabody Conservatory of Music as a student of Frederik
Prausnitz, with subsequent teaching from noted conducting instructor Gustav
Meier, in both the United States and Europe. His first conducting
experiences took place in San Francisco with the Amphion Ensemble, a chamber
orchestra of which he was both founder and music director.
When not on the concert stage, he can be found cooking
Turkish food, mixing vintage cocktails or watching his children's freestyle
dance routines.
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