Michael Zukernik Tickets

Michael Zukernik is the musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and founder of Concert Media AG.

At the age of 19 years, Michael Zukernik, trained as a classical percussionist, was the youngest member of the Israeli Symphony orchestra Rishon LeZion. In the course of his subsequent career he performed as a soloist with Ensembles such as the Spanish Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona y Nacional de Catalunya and the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand. His first conducting lessons with Jorma Panula led him to Finland, Sweden, Germany, Russia and Croatia. In addition, Michael Zukernik took part in master classes, among others. by Pierre Boulez, Gustav Meier and Gennady Rozhdestvensky part. His extensive conducting studies, he graduated from the University of the arts Berlin and at the University for music and performing arts in Vienna and at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden.

He was subsequently appointed to numerous conducting desks in Germany, including the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, the Beethoven orchestra Bonn, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen.

Internationally, he has had several Engagements with the Sinfonica di Roma, the Russian State Academic Symphony orchestra Svetlanov, the Russian national orchestra, the State Academic Symphony orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Moscow Symphony orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic chamber orchestra, Manukau City Symphony Orchestra in new Zealand and the Macao orchestra in the people's Republic of China. In addition, in the 2011/2012 season he was the first guest conductor at the state academic Philharmonic Orchestra in Samara, Russia.

Michael Zukernik worked with pianist Andrei Gavrilov in particular, performing with him at the Kodály Centre in Pécs (Hungary), the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Tonhalle Zürich and the Kultur - und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL). The numerous Engagements also led the conductors to the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Berliner Dom, the Beethoven Hall in Bonn and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.

In 2002 he founded the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. The Ensemble played in concert halls in Germany and Switzerland, especially in the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig. Zukernik led his chamber orchestra on a tour of South Korea, where he conducted ten concerts. A Chinatour followed. The concerts took place at the Shanghai Opera House and at the Cultural Center Beijing.