Month: May 2025

Claudia Spahn

Claudia Spahn

Claudia Spahn (*1963) is a German musician's medicine specialist and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine. She is a leading researcher in the development of music physiology and musicians' medicine, particularly in the field of stage fright and performance anxiety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhl921PGzyo Claudia Spahn has received artistic training in recorder as a solo instrument, piano and violin since childhood. With the recorder and piano, she has won several Read more [...]
Bernhard Richter

Bernhard Richter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKsQN8l05-c Bernhard Richter (* 1962) is a German physician-musician and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine. Richter received his musical training as a singer with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys' Choir and through violin lessons with Hedwig Pahl. He studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, and Dublin. Parallel to his studies, Richter studied singing with Beata Heuer-Christen at the Freiburg University of Music Read more [...]
Uwe Ochs

Uwe Ochs

1982 Passed the C-level examination in church music (choir conducting, organ, piano, vocals) 1984–2000 Organist and pianist of the Daimler-Benz Choir Stuttgart, the Esslingen Police Department Choir, and the Swabian Singers' Selected Choir. 1976–2000 Temporary organist and choir director (St. Ulrich, Maria Königin, Kreuz- und Thomaskirche Kirchheim-Teck) Singing, organ and piano playing, classical music, swimming, water polo, cycling, badminton, collecting model trains and old Read more [...]
Krzysztof Komeda

Krzysztof Komeda

Krzysztof Komeda (born Krzysztof Trzciński; April 27, 1931 in Poznań – April 23, 1969 in Warsaw) was a Polish jazz pianist and composer of jazz and film music of international renown. According to Jan Wróblewski, Komeda occupies a similar musical rank in Poland to Chopin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnFPllvyh8 In his youth, he received piano lessons in Ostrów Wielkopolski (German: Ostrowo), where he lived from 1946 to 1951. Later, he became a student at the Conservatory in Read more [...]
Reinhold Merten

Reinhold Merten

Reinhold Merten dirigiert 1926 bei einer Radio-Liveübetragung Bild © hr-Archiv Reinhold Adolf Merten (June 6, 1894 in Wiesbaden; August 19, 1943 in Munich[1][2]) was a German conductor and physician. Coming from a family of musicians, Merten initially attended the conservatory in Wiesbaden, but then studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, and served as a medical officer in World War I. After the war, he received Read more [...]
Elisa Kafritsas

Elisa Kafritsas

My name is Elisa, named after Beethoven's "Für Elise," a piece my mother loved. I started piano lessons at the age of 6, supported by my Korean mother and Sicilian father, and music has always been a big part of my life. After studying dentistry 🦷 and working as a dentist, I returned to the piano in 2020 after a 21-year hiatus.🎹🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsY9IvdUSI Elisa Kafritsas played her debut piano concerto at the age of 7, won prizes at the "Jugend musiziert" Read more [...]
Jürgen Jage

Jürgen Jage

Jürgen Jage comes from a musical family in Berlin; his father was a pianist. Most recently, he worked as a professor of anesthesiology at the University Medical Center Mainz. Since his retirement, he has devoted himself intensively to piano music. He continues his studies at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and enjoys giving concerts, often in social institutions such as retirement homes. Jürgen Jage plays works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms, whose compositions Read more [...]
Peter Menger

Peter Menger

We are Deborah and Peter Menger, and we met in a choir in 1995. It's only fitting that we've been making music together for many years. We perform in choirs, bands, other vocal ensembles, and as a duo in Germany and internationally. For the past 12 years, we've enjoyed making music together, especially with our four children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxFTWGyYyN0 Since 2016, we have been leading the Hüttenberg Children's Choir together with a great team and a fantastic manager. Read more [...]
Arthur Wolff

Arthur Wolff

Personendaten name:Wolff, Arthurborn:28. Febr. 1885 Guttentag (Oberschlesien)/Dobrodzień, Deutschland/heute: Polendied:23. Dez. 1945 Shanghai, Chinamother:Eugenie Wolff, geb. Straßmann (gest. vor 1939)father:Berthold Wolff (gest. vor 1939), Dr., Arztmatrimony∞ 23. Dez. 1916 Berlin Elisabeth Wolff, geb. Heine (geb. 13. Okt. 1889), Exil 1939 in Shanghaimother language:Germannationality:deutsch, 1941? staatenlosgrave:Shanghai Berufe/Tätigkeiten overview:doctor, conductor, pianist, Read more [...]
Horst Hildebrandt

Horst Hildebrandt

Horst Hildebrandt, born in Marburg (Germany), completed violin studies in Freiburg (Germany) and London, and studied medicine in Freiburg. He has furthered his training in movement therapy, dispokinesis, mental training, and pain therapy. He is a member of the German National Youth Orchestra and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. He has worked as a violinist in opera and radio orchestras. He is the first violinist of the Hilaros Quartet, the Ensemble Aisthesis, and various orchestras. From 1988, Read more [...]