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An ensemble of physicians from various medical disciplines, united by their passion for music and commitment to medical and social causes. Founded in 2025!
Founder and Director: Dr. Orit Gourgy Hacohen
Musical Director and Conductor: David Sofer
Singer: Yoram Chaiter
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Orchestra Conductor: Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Borisovich Nikolayev.
The Military Orchestra of the Military Medical Academy is a highly professional, creative team of military musicians with an unlimited repertoire. The orchestra performs both applied military music and early, classical, modern, and dance music. The orchestra participates in many holidays of the administrations of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, days of military glory, and ceremonial events of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: the May 9 parade dedicated to Victory in the Great Patriotic War; the January 27 parade dedicated to the complete lifting of the siege of Leningrad; City Day, Russian Railways Day, Airborne Troops Day, Alexander Nevsky Day, Heroes of Russia Day, and the opening of monuments and memorials dedicated to great personalities and major events of our country.
The orchestra’s musicians have repeatedly participated in the filming of historical films and military-historical reconstructions.
The orchestra is a regular participant and prize-winner of the International Festival of Military Brass Bands, held on the founding day of the city of St. Petersburg, and a participant and winner of the All-Russian Military Brass Band Competitions. In 2019, the S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy Orchestra was recognized as the best orchestra among orchestras of military educational institutions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the All-Russian Competition of Military Bands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, achieving the 1st degree of laureate. Orchestra soloist Konstantin Andreev (alto saxophone) was named the best soloist of the Russian Armed Forces.
The Military Medical Academy Orchestra collaborates with musical educational institutions, including conservatories and music schools in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, and Saratov.
Students of these musical institutions have repeatedly performed with the orchestra as soloists and performers of various instruments.
The military conductor and the orchestra’s musicians are always open to new creative contacts and artistic projects.
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The MUSICI MEDICI was founded in 1981 from a chamber music group at the Biochemical Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin and for many years consisted almost exclusively of medical students. Today, the orchestra has 35 members, about half of whom are physicians, along with other natural scientists and representatives of other disciplines. The proportion of medical students currently stands at about 15 percent.
Details + Dates: http://musicimedici.de
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In 1987, Dr. Georg Kaiser, former chief physician at the Marktheidenfeld Hospital and a trained musician, founded the “Musica Medica” doctors’ orchestra. Even after his death in 2016, the musicians, together with family members and friends, travel to Italy every year for a week of concerts.
In an interview, his daughter Katharina Kaiser talks about, among other things, the fascination of making music together and how the doctors’ orchestra continued after the founder’s death.
36 Years of the Musica Medica Doctors’ Orchestra: How did your father, Dr. Georg Kaiser, come to found the ensemble?
Kaiser: My father studied music alongside medicine, discovering another passion there. At just 14, he was an organist and choir director in his Silesian homeland. The impetus for founding Musica Medica was an annual congress for German doctors in Grado, Italy. My father gave organ concerts there in the 1980s. Gradually, other musicians joined in. This led to the founding of an association in 1987.
Article Georg Kaiser:
https://www.mainpost.de/regional/main-spessart/arzt-aus-berufung-musiker-aus-leidenschaft-art-454879
https://www.mainpost.de/regional/main-spessart/mediziner-und-musiker-aus-leidenschaft-art-6853720
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The Thuringian Doctors’ Orchestra is comprised of music-loving doctors, nurses, and members of other medical professions. The orchestra was founded in 1997 and is currently conducted by Joan Pagès Valls, artistic director of the Belvedere Music High School in Weimar.
The orchestra will perform for the first time in Meiningen’s Stadtkirche (City Church). It will perform Franz Schubert’s Symphony in B minor (“Unfinished”), a Concertino for Trombone by Ferdinand David, and a work by the Meiningen composer Wolfgang Hocke.
Antonio Martinez Yeste – Posaune
Conductor: Joan Pagès Valls
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…or just “congress orchestra” named by www.Akupunktur.de . In 2019 + 2022 it came together for some yearly congress events in Travemünde near Lubeck/Germany.
Manfred Reininger (work GP acupuncture) vibraphon.
and some chamber music.
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The Australian Medical Students’ Orchestra (AMSO) is a student-led orchestra formed in early 2016 by medical students from Monash University and the University of Melbourne. AMSO brings 90 medical students from across Australia to Melbourne for three days of intensive rehearsals, culminating in an inaugural concert on July 31, 2016. This concert raises funds for two outstanding charities: the Afghanistan National Institute of Music and Very Special Kids, Victoria’s only children’s hospice. We not only share a love of music, but are also passionate about using our music to help others.
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Fawzi Habboushe is the founder of the Philadelphia Doctors Orchestra
The Philadelphia Doctors Chamber Orchestra’s mission is to present and perpetuate symphonic music for the community.
The Philadelphia Doctors’ Chamber Orchestra is a nonprofit organization made up of approximately 40 volunteer musicians. Our mission is to present and perpetuate symphonic music for the community. The orchestra was founded and is conducted by Dr. Fawzi Habboushe, a general and thoracic surgeon. The membership was originally comprised largely, but not exclusively, of medical professionals. Our current membership reflects many diverse backgrounds, all brought together by a love of music. The orchestra has been performing for 25 years in several different venues including universities, concert halls, churches and hospitals throughout the Delaware Valley. The Philadelphia Doctors’ Chamber Orchestra relies upon contributions from patrons, the generosity of its conductor and its devoted musicians.
Phantastic article by Michael C. Upton
The Philadelphia Doctors orchestra seems to have been fusioned into:
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The medical professionals show their concern to the public not only within but also outside their clinics and hospital wards. A group of doctors devoted to both medicine and music decide to play on stage with their strings and bows to bring joy to patients in hospitals and to raise money for those in need.
With this sacred mission, the Hong Kong Medical Association Orchestra was born in March 1989 with the objectives of cultivating good public relations by visiting homes for the aged, centres for the disabled and orphanage, etc.; to raise funds for various charitable organizations; and to recruit talented doctors and create a forum for their mutual enjoyment.
Since its inception, the Orchestra has actively participated in many charity and community affairs. Every year, a Charity Concert has been held and more than HK$5 million has been raised over the past 13 years for organizations including Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care, Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, Hong Kong AIDS Foundation, Hong Kong Society for the Deaf, HKMA Organ Donation Register Fund Ltd. the Hong Kong Workers Welfare Association, Hong Kong Donno Syndrome Association and Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science.
Other activities most cherished by the Orchestra members are their yearly visits at Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve to various hospitals to play for the inpatients during these festive seasons. The Orchestra has also been playing at St. John’s Cathedral for the Family Christmas concert for the past four years. Furthermore, the Orchestra has given Easter Concert at the Chapel of Christ the King, St. Paul Convent.
Although most of the Orchestra members are doctors and their immediate relatives, other professionals are welcome. There are engineers, lawyers, architects, nurses, dentists, accountants and a vet playing in the Orchestra. Rehearsals are held once a week on Wednesday evenings. This promotes contact amongst doctors themselves and with members of other professions.
The HKMA Orchestra is one of the best examples of solidarity of the medical fraternity. In the years ahead, the HKMA Orchestra will continue to perform for the meaningful purpose of charity with the pinnacle of the medical profession – a heart that cares.
