Isang Enders & WDR Sinfonieorchester
Biography Isang Enders & WDR Sinfonieorchester
Isang Enders
born in Frankfurt/Main in 1988, is the son of a German-Korean family with both parents being musicians. At the age of nine years he got the first time into touch with a cello and only a short time later he began his early studies in the class of Prof. Michael Sanderling at the Frankfurt Music Academy. Six years later he became a student of Prof. Gustav Rivinius at the University of Music Saar. Taking part in numerous master classes being held by professors like David Geringas, Janos Starker, Steven Isserlis as well as by the composer Krzysztof Penderecki enabled Isang Enders to improve his skills in playing the cello. The longlasting close personal contact with the American cellist Lynn Harrell advancing him intensely, too was of great importance for the young artist.
As a Stipendiat der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the German Foundation Musikleben the young artist enjoyed an intense promotion. As a prize winner of the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds he was given as a loan in trust a „Joseph Gagliano Neapoli 1720” violoncello owned by a Hamburg family.
Awarded with the Darmstädter Musikpreis 2007 and the Lichtenberger Musikpreis 2008 of the Land Hessen, Isang Enders – with only 20 years of age - was engaged to the Semper Opera House, to the more than one decade vacant position of the lead concertmaster of the violoncelli of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in June 2008.
As a soloist Isang Enders has already performed with orchestras like the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Philharmonic Orchestras in Kiel, Erfurt and Darmstadt, he gave concerts in Innsbruck, Krakow, Belgrade, Seoul, Giessen, Berlin, at the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as with the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie going on tour with them under the baton of Michael Sanderling in 2010. In addition he gave concerts with the Junge Kammerphilharmonie Hessen in Cyprus and Israel in October 2010.
Isang Enders also well known as a chamber musician is a welcome guest at prestigious national and international festivals.
In this field, Olivier Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps with the conductor and pianist Myung-Whun Chung in 2008, the advancement in Seiji Ozawa's IMAS project in summer 2010 as well as a chamber concert with Christoph Eschenbach in the framework of the Piano-Festival Ruhr 2010 are especially worth mentioning. Concerts with the pianist Kit Armstrong at Dresden Semper Opera and Leipzig Gewandhaus followed in Spring 2011.
As highlight of an acclaimed concert evening of the Staatskapelle Dresden on February 17, 2010 Isang Enders performed under the baton of Pablo Heras Casado the cello concerto (chamber music No. 3 op. 36 No. 2) by Paul Hindemith which was recorded by MDR Figaro.
In the framework of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 2010 Isang Enders performed Schumann Cello Concerto under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. On the occasion of the Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch, taken place for the first time in 2010 and in the future annually as the only regular Shostakovich Festival in the sphere of international festivals Isang Enders performed Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Rudolf Barschai on September 11, 2010 and Shostakovich Cello Sonata as well as Piano Trio No. 2 in the framework of a chamber music evening on September 12, 2010.
In the season 2012/13 Isang Enders will give concerts – among others – with Zubin Mehta, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Stuttgart Philharmonics, the Prague Philharmonics. He will be a guest at the Music Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage in Gohrisch, The Dvorak Festival in Prague and the Rheingau-Musikfestival.
