Month: May 2025

André Lee

André Lee

He has been playing the violin since he was 6 years old and has studied with Prof. Michael Goldstein (Hamburg University of Music, First Concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra), Prof. Wilfried Laatz (Lübeck University of Music), and Prof. Ingolf Turban (Munich University of Music), among others, and continues to be active in various orchestras and chamber music.Since November 2020, he has returned to the IMMM as a tenure-track junior professor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlaM8iWSTeQ https://dgfmm.org/die-gesellschaft/vorstand-beirat/dr-andre-lee https://www.akademie-fuer-handrehabilitation.de/handtherapeut/das-team/prof-dr-andre-lee.php#reloaded https://iabnetz.de/?author=48407 https://www.bundesakademie.de/akademie/dozent-innen/details/dozent/andre-lee https://www.immm.hmtm-hannover.de/de/institut/personen/andre-lee Read more [...]
Jean Faber

Jean Faber

Die einzige Quelle in der Gegenwart | The only source of the presence ca. 1870 - 1948 Jean Faber was most likely born in the 1870s. He studied medicine and worked as a practicing surgeon, but was also interested in music and gave informative lectures about musicians, including Beethoven. He also performed as a pianist at a Beethoven celebration, specifically in Beethoven's Trio in E-flat major for violin, cello, and piano.3 He also acted as a piano accompanist at other concerts. He was married Read more [...]
Lukas Nowak

Lukas Nowak

Lukas Nowak began playing the piano at the age of 6. At 14, he switched to the organ and received church music training from Helmut Kickton. He also learned the piccolo and guitar and acquired basic proficiency in horn and percussion. As a student, he wrote, among other works, choral and poem settings, a four-movement symphony, and a tone poem for organ and large orchestra ("The Prophecy of the Messiah," premiered in 2004). He also worked as a choir director until he began his career. Since Read more [...]
Christoph Schreiber

Christoph Schreiber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sv4YmSIWdg Founded in 1998, the Piano Salon Christophori in the listed Uferhallen in Berlin's Gesundbrunnen district is a gem for piano lovers and those who aspire to become one. Solo, chamber, and jazz concerts with exquisite programs take place almost daily in the former tram depot, which salon founder Christoph Schreiber also uses as a workshop for the restoration of historic grand pianos. Numerous individual parts from the instruments adorn the walls of Read more [...]
Carl Firle

Carl Firle

In addition to regular benefit concerts with piano solo programs, I am dedicated to musicians' medicine. Since 2019, I have been a board member of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFqxj4FvM1c&list=PL9BqxpzYJAh4oraHi8ZIPRD5DpKqS-3jQ https://www.carl-firle.eu/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Q_zXF1QSU&list=PL9BqxpzYJAh7qJcBK7OKfCqyZQ9xytuBY&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/@carlf3940 Read more [...]
Alexander Schmidt

Alexander Schmidt

Alexander Schmidt (born January 15, 1977 in Kiel) is a German neurologist and musician. He has been Professor of Musician Medicine at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin since 2014, where he directs the Kurt Singer Institute for Music Physiology and Musician Medicine (KSI), and since 2015, Director of the Berlin Center for Musician Medicine (BCMM) at the Charité. He has been a board member of the German Society for Music Physiology and Musician Medicine (DGfMM) since 2017 and its president Read more [...]
Tom Steinmetz

Tom Steinmetz

The son of an architect and a teacher, he began playing the piano at the age of five and considered pursuing a career as a pianist as a young man. But ultimately, he found that too uncertain. Music remains a favorite hobby to this day. In addition to his music, which he enjoys pursuing with his children, he and his wife are often out in nature and, whenever possible, take outdoor trips in their vintage VW bus. They camp in the wilderness, cook soup and other delicacies on a gas stove, and Read more [...]
Rüdiger Penthin

Rüdiger Penthin

Rüdiger Penthin, a member of the Music Working Group and the board, introduces himself below: Born in 1959. Born in Cologne. Father of three children. He received his first piano lessons at the age of 6. At 17, he received a scholarship as a junior student at the Cologne University of Music, specializing in piano. At 18, however, he decided to study medicine from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Cologne. He received his doctorate in 1989. After completing his specialist training (University Read more [...]
Carl Clauberg

Carl Clauberg

Carl Clauberg (September 28, 1898 in Witzhelden-Wupperhof; August 9, 1957 in Kiel) was a German gynecologist who, as an SS doctor, performed forced sterilizations on hundreds of female concentration camp prisoners. Due to his research into hormone-based contraceptive methods, which he also conducted in the Auschwitz extermination camp using brutal human experiments, Clauberg is considered one of the fathers of the birth control pill. Political Activity Clauberg joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) Read more [...]