The International Telemann Society has announced that recorder player, conductor, and professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Dorothee Oberlinger, has been appointed as the new president of the association. She aims to explore and promote Telemann’s works in a wide variety of ways.
Founded in 1991 in Magdeburg, the International Telemann Society has 170 members worldwide. According to the announcement, Dorothee Oberlinger is deeply engaged with the life and artistic legacy of composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), who was born in Magdeburg. In 2020, as artistic director of the Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival, she was awarded the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize by the City of Magdeburg.
The 55-year-old succeeds Siegfried Pank, who had served as president since March 2012 and chose not to run for another term. Oberlinger was born in Aachen and currently lives in Cologne.
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