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2025-11-05
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Tobias Riether

Tags : 1950-1999 Germany Stuttgart

Category : ComposerDocs , EventDocs , SingerDocs

Tobee (* June 24, 1985 in Geislingen an der Steige; real name Tobias Riether[3]) is a German party pop singer, concert promoter, and dentist.

In his youth, Tobias Riether learned to play several instruments and took singing lessons. At 15, he founded a rock cover band, and at 18, he won a talent competition in party music and became the lead singer of a show band from Baden-Württemberg.

He achieved his first success in 2006 with his self-written song “Die Ina.” He found producers at Xtreme Sound in Cologne, who included the song on numerous party compilation albums. The following year, he had a hit with “Banane, Zitrone,” which landed on the Ballermann Hits compilation and led to him becoming a regular performer at the Bierkönig in Mallorca. Further hits followed, including remakes of “Lotusblume,” originally by The Flippers, “Westerland” by Die Ärzte, and “Eine weiße Rose” by the Kastelruther Spatzen.

In 2008, major label EMI signed Tobee and produced the song ’72, ’80, ’96, 2008 for the European Football Championship, which, at least in its title, was reminiscent of the hit ’54, ’74, ’90, 2006 by Sportfreunde Stiller for the Football World Cup two years earlier. This gave Riether his first chart hit, reaching number 70 in the German singles charts. Tobee has since become an established entertainer at both summer and winter parties.

In the summer of 2009, the singer had his second chart success together with Chris Andrews. Andrews’ 1969 hit “Pretty Belinda” was given a German chorus and an added element of a sinking inflatable boat, transforming it into a summer party hit.

In the summer of 2014, his single “Blau wie das Meer” (Blue like the Sea) was released, and since its release, he has had to deal with accusations of plagiarism. The single bears strong similarities to the song of the same name by the group Mr. Hurley & die Pulveraffen.

His song “Helikopter 117 (Mach’ den Hub Hub Hub),” released in December 2017, which entered the German single charts on March 8, 2019, received a gold record in October 2020 for 200,000 units sold and a platinum record in July 2023. It is a cover of the song “Medicopter Mainz17” (based on the television series Medicopter 117 – Every Life Counts), which became popular at the 2017 Medimeisterschaften (a medical student festival) and held the number one spot on the German Spotify Viral Charts for an extended period that year.[5][6][7]

In addition to his career as a singer, Tobee runs his own label, “Brainstall,” and is active as a producer for other artists, such as DJ Düse, Vroni, Daaan, and Danito Lopez.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobee#:~:text=Tobias%20Riether%20lernte%20in%20seiner,dem%20selbstgeschriebenen%20Titel%20Die%20Ina.

https://www.youtube.com/@TobeeOfficial

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2025-05-04
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Elisa Kafritsas

Tags : 1950-1999 Germany Stuttgart

Category : BlogDocs , CharityDocs , ComposerDocs , EventDocs , PianoDocs , SpeakerDocs , TV-doc

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.🎹🎵

Elisa Kafritsas played her debut piano concerto at the age of 7, won prizes at the “Jugend musiziert” competition, and performed with orchestras such as the Junge Süddeutsche Philharmonie Esslingen. While pursuing a career as a dentist, the pianist with Korean and Sicilian roots took a 21-year break, but then reactivated her dormant talent and received personal instruction from Professor Friedemann Rieger, Dean of Piano at the Stuttgart University of Music. This was followed by her viral Instagram channel “Pianotaste,” on which she participates in international piano competitions and presents her own neoclassical compositions. The premiere of her first composition, “Starlight,” took place in 2023 as a benefit for the Stelp e.V. Gala.

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In 2023, I began composing to process the emotions I felt during a family member’s illness. 💉Music has always been my way of expressing my soul. As a child, I recorded my favorite songs on cassettes, played them by ear, and modified them by adding new piano runs.

You can listen to my music under Elisa Kafritsas on all music platforms, and find sheet music for my compositions on my website.

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As a piano influencer, she has not only infected people around the world, but also her family: her little daughter now practices voluntarily, and her husband is also hitting the keys more often again. “We’re really totally into the piano, and it’s doing us all a lot of good.

https://www.pianotaste.de

https://www.instagram.com/pianotaste/?hl=de

https://www.klassikradio.de/aktuelles/zahnaerztin-wird-piano-influencerin-instagramerfolge-mit-mehr-als-40-000-followern

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Christoph Schreiber

Tags : 1950-1999 Berlin Germany

Category : EventDocs , instrumentBuilderDocs , PianoDocs

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 the 600-square-meter hall, which seats 199 spectators. Schreiber’s collection includes around 120 examples from two centuries of piano making, and just under a dozen are available to the artists in a playable state. The venue and workshop are named after Bartolomeo Cristofori, who developed the first fortepiano at the beginning of the 18th century.

Christoph Schreiber no longer works as a doctor. He speaks about this profession in a tone that makes it clear he would be extremely reluctant to put on the white coat again. Now he has time for his passion. But that also means having to make time for his passion. Being a music promoter is a 24/7 job. He’s on the phone an incredible amount, has music and musicians to manage. And, of course, the family is still there, says the father of three.

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Christoph Schreiber’s true passion isn’t organizing concerts. His enthusiasm is for historical instruments. He’s gone from being a doctor for people to being a full-time doctor for pianos. In other words: Christoph Schreiber restores old grand pianos, upright pianos, and upright pianos. “I’d like to do more hands-on work,” he says. He sounds a bit regretful. But he doesn’t seem dissatisfied either. Apparently, life has now put him in the right place. Somewhere in a salon with over 100 historical pianos. Where he can afford to turn down commissioned restorations. Because it’s “too much effort to do it properly.”

So he restores historic grand pianos for his own purposes—for concerts, for performances. He calls this part of his daily work “keeping it in concert condition.” He considers which instrument is right for a guest musician’s performance in his salon and repairs it. But he relies on the audience. And that has changed his habits during the lockdown years. In the piano salon, he says, he’s fortunate to attract a diverse audience, “even if the mix is less than before Corona.”

It’s noticeable that this sentence isn’t meant to sound plaintive, just descriptive. That’s why Christoph Schreiber speaks in the next sentence about responsibility and the task facing music promoters. As if to say, you have to bring people back. Convince them again. Re-engage them. His contribution: At the Piano Salon, students pay 15 euros for admission (the regular price is usually 25 euros). A drink is always included. And he encourages them to bring children. In his experience, most of them listen attentively.

The music facilitator has set up 160 chairs in the warehouse. Previously, there were 199. People today don’t want to sit as tightly as they normally would a few years ago. And he organizes concerts on a donation basis less frequently, now generally setting fixed prices. Has the coronavirus pandemic also eroded the willingness to financially reward good performance, even without being asked? It’s a question everyone has to ask themselves to answer. Christoph Schreiber has to raise a good 5,000 euros a month for rent. Covid hasn’t changed the system of space for rent.

https://www.konzertfluegel.com

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Salon_Christophori

https://www.instagram.com/pianosalon_christophori/?hl=de

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2025-05-03
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Periklis Sfyridis

Tags : 1900-1949 Greece Thessaloniki

Category : EventDocs , JournalistDocs , movieDocs , philosophyDocs , SpiritualDocs , TV-doc , WriterDocs

Periklis Sfyridis (born October 5, 1933, in Thessaloniki) is a contemporary Greek poet, prose writer, essayist, critic, and anthologist. His prose has been published in several languages.

Periklis Sfyridis was born in 1933 in Thessaloniki, where he lives. He graduated from the American College “Anatolia” in 1952. He studied medicine at the University of Thessaloniki (as a student of the Military Medical School) and worked as a cardiologist until 1994. From 1975 to 1981, he was president of the Thessaloniki Medical Association.

He appeared in letters in 1974 and worked closely with the literary magazine Diagonios. From 1985 to 1990, he edited Parafyada, an annual publication featuring unpublished anecdotal texts by Thessaloniki prose writers. From 1987 to 1996, he was the publishing consultant (content manager) for the magazine To Tram. In 1996, he organized the conference “Paramythia Thessaloniki” on the city’s prose from 1912 to 1995 and edited its proceedings. In 2001, he co-organized the conference “Poetry in Thessaloniki in the 20th Century” with the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies at the Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the Thessaloniki Municipal Library, and edited its proceedings. In 2005, he organized the conference “Literary Nurseries in Thessaloniki: The City’s Literary Journals in the 20th Century and Their Editorships.” In 2008, he organized the fourth conference Criticism and Critics of Thessaloniki in the 20th Century at the Municipal Library of Thessaloniki, as part of the Demetrios Festival, and edited its proceedings (together with Sotiria Stavrakopoulou).

His short story “The Secret” is the basis for Tasos Psarras’ film “The Other Side”, the screenplay for which he wrote together with the director. Two other of his short stories have been made into television films. He also wrote the texts for the documentary series “Literature and Social Reality in Thessaloniki” by Tasos Psarras, which was broadcast by ET-3 in 1997, and for the same director’s “Literary Walks in Northern Greece” (these are the television/literary portraits of the following writers: Thanasis Markopoulos / Veria, Vasilis Karagiannis / Kozani, Lazaros Pavlidis / Kilkis, Sakis Totlis / Edessa, Vasilis Tsiambousis / Drama), a series that was broadcast repeatedly on state television in 1995.

He has published two collections of poetry, fourteen short story collections, two novels, and a memoir about his spiritual journey. He has published studies on novelists, painters, and three anthologies on Thessaloniki’s prose writers, one of which has been translated into German and another into English. He has collaborated with most Greek literary magazines. His short stories have been translated into German, English, and Dutch, as have two of his books in the same language (Dutch): the short story collection First Hand and his novel Kidney Transplant. Over one hundred serious reviews and studies of his prose work have been published in individual volumes. In November 2007, he was honored by the Municipality of Thessaloniki for his prose and critical work. From 2009 to 2010, he was a member of the electoral committee of the Vafopoulio Cultural Center of Thessaloniki, responsible for speaking events. There he also created the literary series Vafopoulio Publications.

https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%A3%CF%86%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B7%CF%82

2025-04-29
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Ian Brunt

Tags : 1950-1999 Cork GB

Category : CarillonDocs , CollectorDocs , ComposerDocs , EventDocs , FluteDocs , HarpsichordDocs , OrganDocs

The 49-bell Carillon of St Colman’s Cathedral in Cobh is the largest such instrument in Ireland and Britain.

Dr Ian Brunt was Director of The Lanchester Early Music Festival and City Carillonneur of
Newcastle Upon Tyne, regularly giving concerts and recitals on organ, carillon, harpsichord
and fortepiano. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 1979-
1981 as flautist, composer and general musician and has specialised in the baroque flute
for over thirty years. He performs with Hexham Collegium Musicum, Anglia Concertante,
Durham Sinfonietta, Tyneside Baroque Players, Durham Baroque, The Hallgate Ensemble,
among others, playing chamber music and giving concerto performances and has recorded
six commercial solo albums on harpsichord, organ and carillon. Recent new music composed includes a pair of Notturni for classical guitar, a setting of George Herbert’s “My
Words and Thoughts” and a solo organ concert piece “Fantazia on a Melody from the Scottish Psalter (1615).” In 2007 he was photographed for The North East Passion Archive project, the images held by Tyne and Wear Museums at The Discovery Museum, Blandford
Square, Newcastle and also accessible on the Internet.

In a tribute to Dr Brunt, Michael Boyd of the British Carillon Society, wrote: “Ian was proud of his Northumberland heritage – he was an exceptionally competent player of the Northumbrian small pipes.

“I believe he wanted to instil a sense of community pride in the Edith Adamson memorial carillon, the first and only carillon to be installed in a civic centre of a major city in Britain. His repertoire also reflected his deep personal connection with the North of England.”

Dr Brunt championed the music of 18th-century Newcastle composer

Charles Avison and was an advocate of folk music on the carillon.

2021: News has just come through of the death this morning at the age of fifty-eight of Ian Brunt, Carillonneur of the Newcastle Civic Centre. Despite his busy workload as a G.P. and ongoing health issues, Ian was also dedicated to his beloved carillon art. He once described how he would swim seventy lengths five times a week in order to keep fit enough to play the carillon, which he claimed was “like going for a five-mile run”! He gave a memorable guest recital in Cobh in July 2007, when this photo was taken. This gentle and cultured man will be sorely missed and long remembered by his colleagues and friends. Requiescat in pace.

https://www.newcastle.gov.uk/our-city/edith-adamson-carillon-newcastle-civic-centre

https://www.facebook.com/Cobh49bellcarillon

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https://www.discogs.com/de/release/7117467-Dr-Ian-Brunt-High-Baroque

https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/people/two-church-organs-among-instruments-found-in-gps-living-room-going-under-auction-3173179

But in addition to being a doctor, he was also a composer and an accomplished musician on a variety of instruments, including piano and flute.

https://www.musicdurham.co.uk/reviews/organ-recital-dr-ian-brunt

**The Edith Adamson Memorial Carillon, Newcastle Civic Centre**
The Edith Adamson Memorial Carillon, constructed in 1966 by J.Taylor and Co and installed in 1967, was given to the city by James Wilfred Adamson in memory of his wife. James (‘Jimmy’) Adamson started his paints business from a horse and cart, and went on to be a driving force in the establishment of British Paints Ltd, see Link . The carillon, see Link has 25 bells, the largest of which weighs 71cwt, 1qr, 13lb – which if my maths serves me correctly is 825lb, or 374.214kg – and is tuned to A major. Recitals take place on Saturdays at 2pm and occasionally on Thursday at 7pm – the Carilloneur is Dr Ian Brunt, who swims 70 lengths five times a week in order to keep fit enough to play the carillon, which takes so much physical energy that he describes it as ‘like going for a five-mile run’, see Link . The carillon tower has twelve seahorses and is topped by the three castles of the Newcastle coat-of-arms, see Link .

2025-04-25
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Willem Kersing

Tags : 1900-1949 Delden NL Netherlands

Category : EventDocs , PianoDocs

Willem Kersing has been playing the piano since he was five years old. His teachers have included George van Renesse, Johan Patist, Jerome Lowenthal, and Herman Strategier. He studied at the conservatories in Utrecht and Enschede. He accompanies many singers, including members of the Nationale Reisopera, and has collaborated with Ank Reinders. For several years, he has accompanied singers coached by Marion van den Akker. He plays chamber music in many ensembles and, after retiring from teaching medicine there, organizes a music festival at Burg Feistritz in Austria. Several recordings of him are available on YouTube.