Florian Donderer (born 1969 ^[1] in Berlin ^[2]) is a German violinist and conductor.

Donderer's parents were also musicians: his father a cellist, his mother a flautist. ^[1]

Donderer studied violin in London and Berlin, where he was a scholarship holder at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. ^[3] Since 1999 he has been concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, at whose academy he also teaches, as well as concertmaster of the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble [ de] ^{[3] [4] [5]} and has also been playing in the Signum Quartet since 2016. ^{[6] [7]}

In 2010, he made his first appearance as conductor with the Ensemble Oriol and Christiane Oelze at a concert in the Berlin Philharmonie. ^[3] He has been artistic director of the music festival Sommersprossen in Rottweil since 2019. ^[8] He has played at the Spannungen chamber music festival in Heimbach. Donderer plays a violin by Stefan-Peter Greiner from 2003. ^[9]

Donderer is married to the cellist Tanja Tetzlaff they have two children. ^{[10] [11]}

• Literature by and about Florian Donderer in the German National Library catalogue
• Official website
• Florian Donderer discography at Discogs