Michael Zukernik
Founder and music director of Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin, Michael Zukernik has graduated Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin (the Higher School of Arts in Berlin) also made opera and symphony postgraduate conducting studies at the University for Music and Fine Arts in Vienna. |
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He worked as solo-timpanist in Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (Spain) and Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand).He speaks fluently Russian, German, French, Hebrew and Spanish.
His conducting lessons with Jorma Panula took place in Finland, Sweden, Germany Russia, Croatia etc. Further more Michael Zukernik took part in Masterclasses with Colin Metters, Leif Segerstam, Otto Werner Mueller, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Ponkin, Gustav Meier, Jonas Fürst, Sir Colin Davis, Pierre Boulez.
In 2002 Michael Zukernik founded his own orchestra “Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin” which performs regularly at Philharmonie Berlin and Konzerthaus Berlin and also acts as concert promoter in Germany. In 2006 34 concerts were held at Philharmonie Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Hannover and others.
Michael Zukernik’s repertoire contains compositions from the Baroque to present time. Several times he was entrusted to conduct premieres like Leif Segerstam’s Sinfonie N. 102 with the Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal and the Berlin premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s “Adagio for Strings”.
Michael Zukernik conducted the Staatskapelle Weimar, Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Nueremberger Symphony Orchestra, Goettingen Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Thüringen Philharmonie, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Berlin Sinfonietta (Chamber Orchestra of Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin), Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague, Philharmonic Orchestra of KMV in Kislovodsk (Russia), etc. He was invited as a guest conductor with the Macao Orchestra, China, made a tour in New Zealand with Auckland Philharmonia. His 2006 tour to China during which Michael conducted 10 concerts (in Shanghai Opera House, Beijing Cultural Centre, etc.) had a great success. In the following season he will be conducting in Saint-Petersburg Chamber Opera Theatre. |
