Sander Teepen 

Conductor Sander Teepen began his career in Eastern Europe after winning the Budapest MAV Symphony Orchestra competition in 2012, the Blue Danube Opera Conducting Competition in 2013 and the “George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra Prize” at the International Conducting Competition Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest in 2014. In 2018 Sander was awarded the prestigious conductor scholarship by “Het Kersjes Fonds.”

Sander has worked at opera houses in Ostrava, Czech Republic (including Shostakovich’s Lady MacBeth and Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame) and Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Sander is a regular guest with the Residentie Orkest, the Philharmonie Zuid-nederland, the Noord Nederlands Orkest, Phion, the Ballet Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest. Abroad, he works regularly with the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra in Iasi and the Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra in Timisoara, both in Romania, and the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice, Slovakia.

Sander was assistant to the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra for four  seasons. In that capacity, he worked with a wide range of conductors including principal conductor Karina Canellakis, Bernard Haitink, Pablo Heras-Cassado, Markus Stenz, JoAnn Faletta and Stanislav Kochanovsky. To crown his work for the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Sander conducted it in October 2021 at The Concertgebouw, including Dvorák’s Ninth Symphony. In February 2023, Sander stepped in at the very last moment with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the Saturday Matinee at The Concertgebouw with Johannes Verhulst’s 70-minute Mass, which was not performed after its premiere in 1879. The concert was praised by the orchestra, audience and press.

In 2024-25 Sander will make his debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic and Opera Zuid in a Rossini double bill. He will also return with the North Netherlands Orchestra, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, Phion, the Residentie Orkest, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra in Iasi, the Banatul Philharmonic Orchestra in Timisoara and the Bangkok Philharmonic Orchestra.  Würtembergische Philharmonie, Filharmonica “Mihail Jora” Bacau