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# Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre individual medley

The men's 200 metre individual medley event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was held on 3 August at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre.

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Wednesday 3 August 2022 | 10:30 | Heats |
| Wednesday 3 August 2022 | 19:07 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:
| World record | Ryan Lochte (USA) | 1:54.00 | Shanghai, China | 28 July 2011 |
| Commonwealth record | Duncan Scott (GBR) | 1:55.28 | Tokyo, Japan | 30 July 2021 |
| Games record | Mitch Larkin (AUS) | 1:57.67 | Gold Coast, Australia | 10 April 2018 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 3 August | Final | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 1:56.88 | GR |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nation | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 4 | Tom Dean | England | 1:59.36 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 5 | Finlay Knox | Canada | 1:59.67 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 2:00.41 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Se-Bom Lee | Australia | 2:00.62 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Mark Szaranek | Scotland | 2:00.81 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | 5 | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 2:01.12 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Brendon Smith | Australia | 2:01.17 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | James McFadzen | England | 2:01.44 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 4 | Mitch Larkin | Australia | 2:01.59 | R |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Evan Jones | Scotland | 2:01.79 | R |
| 11 | 4 | 6 | Collyn Gagne | Canada | 2:01.82 | |
| 12 | 3 | 5 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 2:01.99 | |
| 13 | 4 | 7 | Andrew Ross | South Africa | 2:03.47 | |
| 14 | 4 | 1 | Arvin Chahal | Malaysia | 2:05.65 | |
| 15 | 2 | 2 | Robbie Jones | Jersey | 2:08.02 | |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | Isaac Dodds | Jersey | 2:09.11 | |
| 17 | 3 | 7 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 2:09.85 | |
| 18 | 3 | 1 | Simon Bachmann | Seychelles | 2:11.96 | |
| 19 | 1 | 5 | Samuel Lowe | Guernsey | 2:13.06 | |
| 20 | 1 | 4 | Zackary Gresham | Grenada | 2:13.13 | NR |
| 21 | 3 | 8 | Caio Lobo | Mozambique | 2:13.46 | |
| 22 | 1 | 3 | Mubal Azzam Ibrahim | Maldives | 2:23.69 | |
| | 2 | 1 | Jack McMillan | Northern Ireland | DNS | DNS |
| | 3 | 6 | Javier Acevedo | Canada | DNS | DNS |
| | 4 | 2 | Keanan Dols | Jamaica | DNS | DNS |
| | 4 | 8 | Guy Brooks | South Africa | DNS | DNS |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nation | Result | Notes |
| | 3 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 1:56.88 | GR |
| | 4 | Tom Dean | England | 1:57.01 | |
| | 7 | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 1:57.59 | |
| 4 | 5 | Finlay Knox | Canada | 1:58.95 | |
| 5 | 1 | Brendon Smith | Australia | 1:59.57 | |
| 6 | 6 | Se-Bom Lee | Australia | 1:59.86 | |
| 7 | 8 | James McFadzen | England | 1:59.87 | |
| 8 | 2 | Mark Szaranek | Scotland | 2:00.73 | |
# Swimming at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was held on 30 July at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre. New Zealand's Lewis Clareburt won the event, from Australia's Brendon Smith and Scotland's Duncan Scott, setting a new Commonwealth record, Oceanian record, and New Zealand record. He also became the first New Zealand swimmer in 16 years since Moss Burmester did in 2006 to claim a Commonwealth gold medal.

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Sunday 30 July 2022 | 10:30 | Heats |
| Sunday 30 July 2022 | 20:49 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:
| World record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 4:03.84 | Beijing, China | 10 August 2008 |
| Commonwealth record | Max Litchfield (GBR) | 4:09.62 | Budapest, Hungary | 30 July 2017 |
| Games record | Dan Wallace (SCO) | 4:11.04 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 25 July 2014 |
The following records were established during the competition:
| Date | Event | Name | Nationality | Time | Record |
| 30 July | Final | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 4:08.70 | GR, NR, OC |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nation | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 5 | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 4:17.72 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Brendon Smith | Australia | 4:18.32 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 4:19.04 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | Collyn Gagne | Canada | 4:19.63 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | 6 | Kieren Pollard | Australia | 4:19.64 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Se-Bom Lee | Australia | 4:19.66 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 4 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 4:20.92 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | Mark Szaranek | Scotland | 4:21.34 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | 2 | Isaac Dodds | Jersey | 4:29.70 | R |
| 10 | 2 | 7 | Mohamed Rihan Shiham | Maldives | 5:35.70 | R |
| | 2 | 3 | Brodie Williams | England | DNS | DNS |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nation | Result | Notes |
| | 4 | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 4:08.70 | GR, OC |
| | 5 | Brendon Smith | Australia | 4:10.15 | |
| | 1 | Duncan Scott | Scotland | 4:11.27 | |
| 4 | 3 | Matthew Sates | South Africa | 4:16.61 | |
| 5 | 7 | Se-Bom Lee | Australia | 4:16.68 | |
| 6 | 2 | Kieren Pollard | Australia | 4:17.02 | |
| 7 | 6 | Collyn Gagne | Canada | 4:19.32 | |
| 8 | 8 | Mark Szaranek | Scotland | 4:19.62 | |
# Hippolyte Hanry

Hippolyte Hanry (15 April 1807, Casale Monferrato, Italy – 1893) was a French botanical collector and taxonomist.
From 1831 onward, he served as justice of the peace in Le Luc, a town in the department of Var. As a botanist, he collected plants in the vicinity of Le Luc.
He was the author of the botanical section of the 1853 "Prodrome d'histoire naturelle du département du Var" (Prodomus on the natural history of Var). His herbarium specimens are presently housed at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Nîmes and in the herbarium at the University of Montpellier.
Plants with the specific epithet of hanryi are named in his honor.

## Published works

* Prodrome d'histoire naturelle du département du Var. Draguignan, Garcin, 490 p. — Botanique par Hanry, 264 p. (1853).
* Mercurialis Huetii (Bull. Soc.d' études scient, de Draguignan, p. p. 252-254), 1862 - treatise on the species Mercurialis huetii.
* Cryptogamie. Catalogue des Mousses et Hépatiques de Provence. Aix, Remondet-Aubin, 22 p. 1867 - Cryptogams, catalog on mosses and hepatics of Provence.
# Swimming at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The final and the qualifying heats of the women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held on Wednesday 14 January 1998 in Perth, Western Australia.

## Final

| Rank | Team | Time |
| | United States Lindsey Farella Amy Van Dyken Barbara Bedford Jenny Thompson | 3:42.11 56.61 54.94 56.22 54.14 |
| | Germany Sandra Völker Franziska van Almsick Simone Osygus Katrin Meissner | 3:43.11 55.68 55.95 56.58 54.90 |
| | Australia Sarah Ryan Rebecca Creedy Susie O'Neill Angela Kennedy | 3:43.71 56.24 55.80 55.40 56.27 |
| 4 | Sweden Malin Svahnström Therese Alshammar Louise Jöhncke Josefin Lillhage | 3:44.28 56.83 55.92 55.50 56.03 |
| 5 | Netherlands Inge de Bruijn Angela Postma Manon Masseurs Wilma van Hofwegen | 3:44.64 55.85 56.85 56.38 55.56 |
| 6 | Canada Laura Nicholls Nicole Davey Shannon Shakespeare Marianne Limpert | 3:44.90 56.49 56.64 55.54 56.23 |
| 7 | Great Britain Sue Rolph Claire Huddart Melanie Marshall Karen Pickering | 3:45.30 56.07 56.72 57.13 55.38 |
| 8 | China Shan Ying Le Jingyi Sun Guling Zhu Yingwen | 3:47.39 56.56 57.59 56.16 57.08 |

## Qualifying heats
### Heat 1

| Rank | Team | Time |
| 1 | United States Catherine Fox Lindsey Farella Melanie Valerio Barbara Bedford | 3:44.89 |
| 2 | Australia Sarah Ryan Rebecca Creedy Angela Kennedy Kate Godfrey | 3:45.80 |
| 3 | Germany Katrin Meissner Antje Buschschulte Silvia Szalai Franziska van Almsick | 3:45.84 |
| 4 | Great Britain Sue Rolph Claire Huddart Melanie Marshall Karen Pickering | 3:46.27 |
| 5 | Denmark Sophia Skou Mette Jacobsen Mia Muusfeldt Berit Puggaard | 3:48.19 |
| 6 | Belgium Liesbet Dreesen Tine Bossuyt Sofie Wolfs Fabienne Dufour | 3:49.69 |
| 7 | Brazil Tatiana Lemos Raquel Takaya Monique Ferreira Lucia Santos | 3:59.48 |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Team | Time |
| 1 | Canada Laura Nicholls Nicole Davey Shannon Shakespeare Marianne Limpert | 3:45.83 |
| 2 | Sweden Johanna Sjöberg Therese Alshammar Malin Svahnström Josefin Lillhage | 3:46.08 |
| 3 | China Sun Guling Zhu Yingwen Le Jingyi Shan Ying | 3:47.05 |
| 4 | Netherlands Wilma van Hofwegen Angela Postma Suze Valen Manon Masseurs | 3:47.37 |
| 5 | Italy Luisa Striani Karina Vanni Viviana Susin Cecilia Vianini | 3:49.02 |
| 6 | Russia Svetlana Leshukova Elena Nazemnova Tatyana Litovchenko Inna Yaitskaya | 3:49.28 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei Lin Meng-Chieh Chiang Tzu-Ying Lin Chi-Chan Tsai Shu-min | 4:02.05 |
# Hipodromo do Cristal

Hipodromo do Cristal (Cristal Racecourse) is the most important center of horse racing in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located at Porto Alegre. It was designed by renowned Uruguayan architect Roman Fresnedo Siri. It is regarded as a remarkable example of modern architecture in South America.
Horse races are taking place on Thursday. A major event is the Grande Premio Bento Goncalves (in November).

## Notable races

* G. P. Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (March 24), 2200 meters. Listed
* G. P. Diana (May,3), 2000 meters. Listed
* G. P. Taça de Cristal (colt) (June, 28), 1609 meters ( 1 mile) Listed
* G. P. Taça de Cristal (filly) (June, 28), 1609 meters (1 mile) Listed
* G. P. Copa ABCPCC (July, 26 ), 1609 meters (1 mile) Grade 3
* G. P. Protetora do Turfe (September, 6), 2200 meters Grade 3
* G. P. ABCPCC (November, 18), 1200 meters Listed
* G. P. Presidente da República (November,18 ), 1609 metros Listed
* G. P. Bento Gonçalves (November, 18 ), 2400 meters Grade 1
The dates can be changed each year

## Sources

* VICENTE MARQUES SANTIAGO & JOSE PINHEIRO BORDA : Relatório apresentado a assembléia geral de sócios biênio 1956/1957. Jockey Club do Rio Grande do Sul.
* Foro de Arquitetura Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul . Porto Alegre 29 de novembro - 1 de dezembro de 2000. O caso do Hipódromo do Cristal
* Heitor da Costa Silva. Cadernos de Arquitetura Ritter dos Reis A segunda idade do vidro
* Anna Paula Moura Canez e Eline Maria Moura Pereira, Caixeta Margot, Inês Villas Boas Caruccio, Raquel Rodrigues Lima, Viviane Villas Boas Maglia( Acervos Azevedo Moura & Gertum e João Alberto Fonseca da Silva. . DOCOMO. Memória da Arquitetura Moderna em Porto Alegre
# Suho Memorial Paper Museum

The Suho Memorial Paper Museum (traditional Chinese: 樹火紀念紙博物館; simplified Chinese: 树火纪念纸博物馆; pinyin: Shùhuǒ Jìniàn Zhǐ Bówùguǎn) is a museum about paper in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.

## History

The idea of the paper museum establishment was voiced by Chen Su-ho, the founder of Chang Chuen Cotton Paper. However, he died in an airplane accident in October 1990 in Guangdong. Soon after that, the preparation to establish the museum took off. The museum was finally opened in October 1995 after five years of preparation with the name Suho Memorial Paper Museum.

## Architecture

The museum is housed in a 4-story building with a total floor area of 529 m$^2$. It features a shop.

## Exhibitions

* Show room and paper mill
* Suho platform special exhibition
* Permanent exhibition area of the museum
* Activity experience area

## Transportation

The museum is accessible within walking distance South from Songjiang Nanjing Station of the Taipei Metro.
# Kathleen Lynch (performer)

Kathleen Lynch is an American dancer and performance artist, best known as American punk band Butthole Surfers' "naked dancer" from 1986 to 1989; however, she was never officially part of the band.
In 1988, Lynch and the Butthole Surfers appeared in Bar-B-Que Movie, a short Super 8 movie directed by actor/filmmaker Alex Winter. A spoof of 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the film ends with a music video-style performance of the song "Fast" (a.k.a. "Fart Song"), featuring Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, King Coffey, Teresa Nervosa, and Jeff Pinkus, as well as Lynch. It also displayed many of the band's stage gimmicks, such as the burning cymbal, strobe lights, films, and smoke.
After her stint with the Butthole Surfers, Lynch went on to front the New York-based psychedelic rock band Beme Seed. Beme Seed gained underground popularity in the West Philadelphia music scene from several performances at the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity at the University of Pennsylvania.
# Ingrid Uddenberg

Ingrid Albertina Uddenberg (12 July 1913 – 27 October 1998) was a Swedish architect who mostly designed hospitals and schools. She also designed the Skärholmen's church along with Swedish interior architect Tore Darelius [sv].

## Biography

Ingrid Albertina Uddenberg was born on 12 July 1913 in Matteus parish, Stockholm, Sweden. After matriculating in 1932 at Åhlinska School, a girls' school in Stockholm, Uddenberg went on to study at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology between 1933 and 1938. Later she was employed by architect Albin Stark [sv] at the building board in Stockholm and the county architect's office in Kalmar. Between 1938 and 1944, she worked at the architectural office of Sven Ahlbom [sv] in Västerås. She also had a long career with architect Gustaf Birch-Lindgren from 1944 to 1955. In 1955, Uddenberg started her own business in collaboration with Bendt Hjelm-Jensen [sv].
She mainly designed health and educational institutions which include the Thorax clinic; the alcohol clinic; the Magnus Huss clinic at Karolinska; hospital in Solna; the child psychiatric clinic in Lund; Nynäshamn hospital; and Mariebergsskolan in Örebro. She was the secretary of association of women technologists from 1936 to 1937. She was also associated with the national nssociation of Swedish architects.
She was married to the architect Hans Uddenberg [sv].
She died on 27 October 1998 in Lidingö, Stockholm county.
# Nadao (disambiguation)

Nadao is a short name for the company Nadao Bangkok.
Nadao may also refer to:

## People

* Hirokichi Nadao, Japanese politician
* Nadao Yoshinaga, American politician
# Nahr Umr Field

Nahr Umr Field is an oil field, located north of Basrah, Iraq. Nahr Umr Field is proven to hold 6.6 billion barrels of recoverable reserve. The oil field was discovered in 1948 by the Basrah Petroleum Company, an associate of the Iraq Petroleum Company.
# Polyphonic HMI

Polyphonic HMI is a music analysis company jointly founded in Barcelona, Spain by Mike McCready and an artificial intelligence firm called Grupo AIA. Its principal product is called "Hit Song Science" (HSS) which uses various statistical and signal processing techniques to help record companies predict whether a particular song will have commercial success.
The software correctly predicted the success of Norah Jones' debut album Come Away with Me months before it topped the charts, contradicting skeptical studio executives.
# Helan Mountains

The Helan Mountains, frequently called Alashan Mountains in older sources, are an isolated desert mountain range forming the border of Inner Mongolia's Alxa League and Ningxia. They run north-south parallel to the north-flowing Yellow River in the Ordos Loop section. The river is mostly east of the mountains, but in the north it crosses without making a significant gorge and flows on the west side. To the west lies the extremely arid Tengger Desert, while to the east is an irrigated area beside the Yellow River, in which lie the cities of Yinchuan and Shizuishan - a little further east of which lies the Mu Us portion of the Ordos Desert. To the north lies the Inner Mongolian city of Wuhai.
They are about 200 kilometres (120 mi) from north to south, from 15 to 50 kilometres (9.3 to 31.1 mi) wide and average about 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in altitude (the Yellow River here is about 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) above sea level). Their highest peak is 3,556 metres (11,667 ft).

## Emerging wine industry

With the increasing popularity of Ningxia wines, the Chinese authorities have given approval to the development of the eastern base of the Helan Mountains as an area suitable for wine production. Several large Chinese wine companies including Changyu and Dynasty Wine have begun development in the western region of the province. Together they now own 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land for planting vineyards and Dynasty has ploughed 100 million yuan into Ningxia. In addition, the major oil company China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation has founded a vineyard near the Helan Mountains. The household appliance company Midea has also begun participating in Ningxia's wine industry.

## Gallery

* Landscape with modern pagoda in Helan uplands.
* Petroglyph of a sun deity.
* Helan mountain setting of Guangzong temple, Alxa league.
* Guangzong temple, Alxa league.
* Helan wildflower: scarlet-flowered Lilium species.
* View from cable car, Helan Mountains, Ningxia.
* Remains of Western Xia (Tangut Empire) mausoleum no. 3, foot of Helan Mountains, Ningxia.
* Fierce, hag-like grave guardians sculpted on two stele bases, mausoleum no. 3, Western Xia mausoleums.
# John Astley (Master of the Revels)

Sir John Astley (or Ashley) (c.1569 – 26 January 1640) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and became Master of the Revels.
Astley was the son of John Astley, Master of the Jewel House and his wife Margaret Grey, illegitimate daughter of Lord Thomas Grey. He was educated at the royal court of Elizabeth I and was a law student at Grays Inn in 1598. He was a gentleman pensioner under Queen Elizabeth and her successor James I until about 1612, while in the meantime he succeeded to his father's estates at Maidstone in 1596.
He was knighted at the Charterhouse on 11 May 1603. In 1612 he was granted the reversion of Mastership of the Revels. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Oxford to serve in the Addled Parliament. He was deputy Master of the Revels and was commissioned on 6 May 1622 to take up embroiderers, tailors and other artificers for the King's service. On 22 May 1622 he succeeded Sir George Buck, who had gone mad, as Master of the Revels but sold his interest to Henry Herbert by August 1623.
On 18 September 1609 Astley married Katherine Brydges, daughter of Anthony Brydges of Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire. Their children, three sons and a daughter, all died during the lifetime of their father, who was succeeded in his estates by his kinsman Sir Jacob Astley. Astley died in 1640. His wife survived him, dying in 1648.
# Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc

The Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc (Catalan pronunciation:, meaning in English "Saint Lluc Artists' Circle") is an arts society which was founded in Barcelona (Catalonia) in 1893 by Joan Llimona, Josep Llimona, Antoni Utrillo, Alexandre de Riquer, the city councillor Alexandre M. Pons and a group of artists who were followers of bishop Josep Torras i Bages, as a reaction to the anticlerical current present in modernisme and in the Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, which they considered to be frivolous. The society was typified by its vigorous defence of Catholic morals (even going so far as to prohibit the artistic nude) and of family virtue, and its desire to follow in the path of humility that was pursued by the mediaeval guilds.
Its president was Lluís Serrahima, and its members included Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer, Iu Pascual, Enric Clarasó, Antoni Gaudí, Joaquim Vancells i Vieta, Joaquim Renart i Garcia and Ramon Sunyer i Clarà, as well as Joaquín Torres García, Josep Pijoan, Feliu Elias, Darius Vilàs, Francesc d'Assís Galí, Eugenio d'Ors and other artists without religious commitment who attended drawing classes there including Joan Miró. It is considered to have been very influential in defining the noucentisme movement.
After the Spanish Civil War it was reorganized and it protected the activities of the Agrupació Dramàtica de Barcelona and the Coral Sant Jordi, as well as the early performances by Els Setze Jutges and Els Joglars. It created the Joan Miró Drawing Prize and in 1993 it received the highest honour awarded by the Catalan government, the Creu de Sant Jordi.
# Isopiperitenol dehydrogenase

In enzymology, an isopiperitenol dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.223) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
    (-)-trans-isopiperitenol + NAD$^+$ $\rightleftharpoons$ (-)-isopiperitenone + NADH + H$^+$
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are (-)-trans-isopiperitenol and NAD$^+$, whereas its 3 products are (-)-isopiperitenone, NADH, and H$^+$.
This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on the CH-OH group of donor with NAD$^+$ or NADP$^+$ as acceptor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is (-)-trans-isopiperitenol:NAD$^+$ oxidoreductase. This enzyme participates in monoterpenoid biosynthesis.
# Henrik Schaefer

Henrik Schaefer (born 1968 in Bochum) is a German conductor.
He is Music Director of the Opera of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Alongside his work at this house he keeps up an impressive carriere as a guest conductor with the Gävle Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony, Osaka Philharmonic, Helsingborg Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Norrköping Symphony, Sapporo Symphony, Arctic Philharmonic, Sendai Philharmonic, Rouen, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Tokyo Metropolitan, Volksoper Wien, Bogota Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Nederlands Philharmonisch, Hongkong Philharmonic and the orchestras in Nürnberg, Curitiba, Aalborg, Antwerp, Porto Alegre, Enschede, Kristiansand and Belo Horizonte.
At the age of six he began playing the violin and changed to viola when he was 14. After his studies in Essen and Freiburg with Prof. Grahe, Prof. Koch, Prof. Kashkashian and Prof. Luethy, he became the then youngest member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 22.
As well as playing in the orchestra he studied conducting in Leipzig with Prof. Rohde from 1994 to 1998. After his first smaller projects as a conductor he led the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time in 1999 for the MusikBox project of Sony music (Ludwig van Beethoven's symphony no. 5, Robert Schumann's symphony no. 3 and Felix Mendelssohn's symphony no. 4). In May 2000 he was chosen from numerous applicants to become Claudio Abbado’s assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and already in December 2000 he led all rehearsals for the production of Richard Wagner's Tristan in Tokyo, due to Abbado’s ailing health.
Since then he has conducted the orchestra on many occasions in Berlin and Salzburg (Falstaff, Parsifal) and took the dress rehearsal for Claudio Abbado’s last concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Gustav Mahler's symphony no. 7 in Vienna in May 2002.
His opera repertoire includes The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Figaro, Cosi fan Tutte, Eugen Onegin, Faust, La Traviata, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Falstaff, Hamlet, Les dialogues des Carmelites, Hänsel and Gretel, Daphne, Elektra, Ariadne, The Flying Dutchman, Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Tristan and Parsifal. He has recorded numerous symphonic works by Badings, Raff and recently the first opera by the romantic Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar with the Norrköping Symphony for the label Sterling.