Will Sanders (born 1965) is a Dutch classical

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player, conductor, and

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Biography

Sanders was born in

Venlo Venlo () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, close to the border with Germany. It is situated in the province of Limburg (Netherland ...

, the Netherlands. He trained in music at the

Maastricht Academy of Music The Maastricht Academy of Music, Dutch: ''Conservatorium Maastricht'', located in the city of Maastricht, is one of nine music academies in the Netherlands. The academy is a faculty of the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool Zuyd in D ...

, where he graduated with honours in 1988. In 1985, while still a student, he became a member of the European Youth Orchestra, conducted by

Claudio Abbado Claudio Abbado (; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony ...

. A year later he joined the Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra in Germany, serving as understudy horn soloist, and in 1988 he joined the Südwestfunk Baden Baden Radio Symphony Orchestra as horn soloist. In 1990 he joined

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (german: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra. Based in Munich, Germany, it is one of the city's four orchestras. The BRSO is one of two full-size symphony orchestr ...

in the same capacity. He held the position of solo horn in the orchestra of the

Bayreuth Festival The Bayreuth Festival (german: link=no, Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented. Wagner himself conceived ...

from 1992 to 1997. Sanders has worked with

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. In addition to his orchestral work, he has made CDs and other recordings for radio and television and is an international soloist as well as a member of chamber music ensembles, such as

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, Linos Ensemble, Mullova Ensemble and the Wind Art Ensemble. He has also worked as a conductor.

Teaching career

Sanders has taught the horn at the Maastricht Academy of Music since 1995. He was named Horn Professor at the

University of Music Karlsruhe A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

in Germany in 2000. He has been an occasional guest professor of horn at the

University of Rio de Janeiro The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro or University of Brazil (UFRJ; pt, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro or ') is a public research university located in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest federal university in the ...

in Brazil since 2002, and taught courses and

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es and directed international workshops in countries including the United States, Japan, Korea, Australia, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland. He has frequently been on juries for international competitions, including the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments. Since 2012, he has been a visiting professor at the

Academy of Music in Kraków The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Muzyczna im. Krzysztofa Pendereckiego w Krakowie) is a conservatory located in central Kraków, Poland. It is the '' alma mater'' of the renowned Polish contemporary composer Krz ...

in Poland.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanders, Will 1965 births Living people Dutch classical horn players Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe Maastricht Academy of Music alumni Academic staff of the Maastricht Academy of Music People from Venlo