Michael Schønwandt

Michael Detlev Schønwandt (born 10 September 1953 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish conductor.

Schønwandt was Music Director of the Royal Danish Orchestra and the Copenhagen Opera House from 2000 to 2011.

[1] In 2006, he conducted the Royal Opera, in a production of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, released on DVD by Decca.

In May 2009, Schønwandt was named principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic[2] In August 2010 he formally took up the post, which he held until the orchestra's dissolution in 2013.

From 2015 Schønwandt is principal conductor of the Opéra Orchestre National de Montpellier in France.