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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.

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 prizes at the state competition Jugend musiziert. She has also trained in classical ballet, modern dance and tap dancing. Spahn studied medicine at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, as well as in Paris and Switzerland. From 1986 onwards, she has also studied music teaching at the Freiburg University of Music, majoring in recorder, graduating in 1991 with a diploma in music teaching. Since 1992, Claudia Spahn has made numerous appearances as a pianist in the music cabaret duo Die schönen Baritons – together with baritone Bernhard Richter. From 1994 to 2004, she performed as a pianist and recorder player in musical theaters in France.

In 1992, Spahn began her medical training in the fields of psychosomatic medicine, internal medicine, and psychiatry. In 1993, she received her doctorate in medicine, and in 1999 she became a specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine. In 2004, she completed her habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg on the topic of prevention in higher education for musicians. In the winter semester of 2005/2006, Claudia Spahn was appointed professor of musicians’ medicine at the Freiburg University of Music. Since then, she has headed the Freiburg Institute for Musicians’ Medicine (FIM) – an institution of the University of Music and the Medical Faculty of the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg – together with Bernhard Richter. In 2017, Claudia Spahn became Vice Rector for Research and International Relations at the Freiburg University of Music. In 2020, she received her doctorate in systematic musicology.

Claudia Spahn has significantly advanced the field of music physiology and musicians’ medicine, both structurally and in terms of content. She has written and edited several standard textbooks. She teaches music students the physical and psychological foundations of music-making, preventative body-oriented approaches, and how to deal with stage fright. Music physiology can be studied as a standalone minor at the Freiburg Research and Teaching Center for Music. She also teaches medical students in the preclinical and clinical study phases at the Freiburg Medical Faculty.

In the outpatient clinic of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians’ Medicine at Freiburg University Hospital, Spahn treats musicians with the full range of musicians’ medical conditions, particularly pain and strain syndromes. She offers a special consultation for patients with psychological problems, particularly performance anxiety.

https://www.mh-freiburg.de/personen/details/prof-dr-med-dr-phil-claudia-spahn

https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/musikermedizin/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-claudia-spahn.html

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Ian Brunt

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

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, 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 LinkExternal link . The carillon, see LinkExternal 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 LinkExternal link . The carillon tower has twelve seahorses and is topped by the three castles of the Newcastle coat-of-arms, see LinkExternal link .


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Massimo Peroni

Massimo Peroni is BluesDoc and a multi-talent

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Jacalyn M. Duffin

Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, is a hematologist and historian who held the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen’s University from 1988 to 2017.

A former President of both the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, she is the author of eleven books and many articles, holds several awards for teaching and research. She is a Member of the Order of Canada (2020) and  a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada (2012) and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2013). In May 2019, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the AAHM (from historians) and was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (from physicians). A supporter of medical humanities, she was a contributing editor of the online Literature, Arts and Medicine database from 1995 to 2024.

Her research focuses on disease, technology, religion, and health policy. She runs an activist website for the current drug shortage problem and a collaborative translation project for the 17th-century Latin author Paolo Zacchia. Her book Stanley’s Dream (2019) is on the history of the Medical Expedition to Easter Island, led by Canada in 1964-65. Her COVID-19: A History appeared in fall 2022. Since 2023, she has been serving as Editor-in-Chief, for the forthcoming History of Medicine module for Oxford Bibliographies online.

https://www.cdnmedhall.ca/laureates/jacalynduffin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacalyn_Duffin


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Alexander Heisler

Alexander Heisler (* 21. Juni 1949 in Königsfeld im Schwarzwald) is a German event managerand founder of the Zelt-Musik-Festival in Freiburg and MD.

Heisler has grown up in a family of country doctors. He studied law, journalistics and behavioural science in Munich. 1970 he studied medicine in Freiburg. He was film assistant of Walter Frentz, who was camera-man of Leni Riefenstahl. At the  Olympic Games in Munich 1972 he was personal assistent of IOC-Vice president David Cecil, 6. Marquess of Exeter.

In 1972 he founded the Audimax classics and jazz concerts Freiburg until the ZMF – Zeltmusik-Festival Freiburg (Tent Music Festival) was founded in 1983. Roncalli chief Bernhard Paul borrowed him tents and internationale stars drew hundreds of thousands visitors. After high losses in 2006 because of the football championship in Germany he changed to the board and others took over the organisation.

Heisler is friend with any artists of the ZMF as to Perry Robinson[3]Konstantin WeckerCab Calloway or Chick Corea. His son is the drummer Frederik Heisler.

From 1986 thru 2021 he had an office as GP in Teningen.

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Jany Renz

During his international career as Lied accompanist and chamber musician he was partner of leading Lied singers and leading instrumentalists.

He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher in Basel. Master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache completed his studies.

He was chief conductor of the symphony orchestra Dornach/Switzerland. His career began in Italy where he became first maestro and artistic vice director. Later he spent a long time in South Korea as director of the Masan Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In Finland he got in touch with the contemporary music scene and took up several works in his repertoire. He conducted “Aida” on the Opera Festival of Savonlinna and gave master classes of Lied and chamber music. He regularly worked with finnish orchestras. He also was guest conductor of the Budapest philhamronic orchestra and of the Opera Budapest.

In 1991 a recording of the 9th symphony of Bruckner was published with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra (ODE 764-2 www.ondine.fi ) which became the best sold version of this work in the USA in that year (and the best sold classical CD at all in August).

From 1990 to 1994 he was general music director in Freiberg/germany. As guest conductor he worked in other theaters, like in Darmstadt with “Falstaff” of Giuseppe Verdi. The success of his CD produced him invitations in the USA as in Portland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York.

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Jany Renz heißt der Dirigent, der das Kunststück fertiggebracht hat, das Orchester zu einer so mitreissenden Leistung zu führen. Es gelang ihm eine packende Wiedergabe von Dvoráks Symphonie “Aus der Neuen Welt”, emphatisch, spontan, vital und dennoch präzise, beherrscht und kontrolliert, von hohem Ernst und starkem interpretatorischem Willen.

(Basler Zeitung, Switzerland)

In Mozart´s last piano concerto KV 595, Jany Renz figured not only as soloist but also as conductor. In this he performed a double task which has sometimes proved too exacting for many othe rinternational celebrities. But with the swiss Jany Renz it was a sheer joy to hear and see. His sovereign virtuosity and natural zest in playing did not stand in the way of a Mozart performance marked by the lucidity and delicacy of chamber music and crowned by a slow movement that was touchingly beautiful in its humility and unworldliness.

(Portland Press Herald, USA)

With a clear and quite unassuming baton, and with a punctilious constancy of tempo, Jany Renz gave a performance of convincing unity, lending an abundance of sound and dynamics to the strictly maintained great lines while shaping them with a lot of fince nuances, in which the orchestra followed him with astonishing precision and remarkable culture of sound.

(The New York Times, USA)

Jany Renz´s creative impulse, which found compelling expression in the extreme prescicion of baton technique, afforded him ideal scope with the orchestra and Anton Bruckner´s “Seventh” received an overpowering performance.

(Pittsburgh Press, USA)

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Alexander Borodin

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Порфи́рьевич Бороди́н, tr. Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin[a]IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin] (listen);[2] 12 November 1833 – 27 February 1887)[3] was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as “The Five“, a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music.[4][5][6] Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor.

doctor and chemist by profession and training, Borodin made important early contributions to organic chemistry. Although he is presently known better as a composer, he regarded medicine and science as his primary occupations, only practising music and composition in his spare time or when he was ill.[7] As a chemist, Borodin is known best for his work concerning organic synthesis, including being among the first chemists to demonstrate nucleophilic substitution, as well as being the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction. Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885.

Mount Borodin (71°36′S 72°38′W) is a mainly ice-covered mountain, 695 metres (2,280 ft) high, with a rock outcrop on the east side, 7 nautical miles (13 km) north-northeast of Gluck Peak in the southwest part of Alexander IslandAntarctica. A number of peaks in this general vicinity first appear on the maps of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48. This peak, apparently one of these, was mapped from RARE air photos by Derek J.H. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Alexander Borodin, the Russian composer.[1]
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Volker Leiss

The musician and composer Volker Leiß was born in 1966. His main profession is medical doctor but he has made music since age 5. He won several prizes “Jugend musiziert” and produced 17 CDs, as a studio musician he contributed to further 18 productions. With his Volker-Leiss-Band he had more than 600 performances and is in the TV show “Zimmer frei” with Götz Alsmann. Recently he performed his first symphony composition with the Münster Symphony Orchestra with great success.

He is married and has four children.

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Livio Claudio Bressan

Livio Claudio Bressan writes:

I am a Milanese hospital Neurologist, specialized in Internal medicine, Nephrology and Neuropathology.
MUSIC CV:
I have a degree in classical guitar from the Conservatory.
I’ve also studied the Piano and Composition in Conservatory . My compositions have been performed by important musical ensembles.
I have taught Classical Guitar for 15 years for Municipal Music Schools and Academies.
Some of my Students have won awards on the National and International Levels.
I’ve been studying the flute for eight years and I currently play flute in a chamber sextet (first flute, second flute, violin, viola, guitar, cello).
Our programme includes pieces I have composed and transcribed, as well as pieces by Astor Piazzolla, Ligeti, Berio, Morton Feldman, Hindemit, Smith Brindle.
In addition to executing pieces on the flute, I also orchestrate, transcribe and compose.
I would like to be a part of The Philharmonic Doctors Orchestra
Thank you, Livio Bressan

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Eckart Altenmüller

Prof. AltenmŸller bei einer öffentlichen Tagung in Osnabrück im Sept. 2018

Eckart Altenmüller (born 19 December 1955) is a German physician and musician and one of the leading researchers in the field of neurophysiology and neuropsychology of musicians. Born in Rottweil, Altenmüller studied medicine in Eberhard-Karls-Universität and Hôtel-Dieu in Paris from 1974 to 1981 and music at the Musikhochschule Freiburg from 1979 to 1985 (mainly flute). He is fairly good also at the piano….

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