Category: PianoDocs

Werner Bockelmann

Werner Bockelmann

his CD "Leipzig Polonaise", one of his major compositions. Jan Bochański (natural name Werner Bockelmann) was born in St. Wendel/Saar/Germany as son of a doctor family (5th generation). After World War II he was in Melsungen/Germany where he got rare piano lessons and did not have composition but made his first attempts to compose. 1947 to 1953 he studied medicine and law in Homburg/Saar, Paris and Heidelberg. After his MD, thesis and specialisation in ophthalmology he Read more [...]
Adam Dachman

Adam Dachman

Adam has been called a healer. His music considered to be from a realm of peace and possibility. Interestingly, he happens to be a well trained general surgeon. And while medicine has received much of his focus over the years, music has been on his mind since childhood. Trained classically, Adam quickly became his teacher’s prodigy and competed nationally. (As the years passed, he became interested in composing his own music. Formal training in theory, jazz, improvisation, orchestration Read more [...]
Martin Heyworth

Martin Heyworth

Martin Heyworth web of works in UE - Universal Edition Medical graduate of Cambridge University (1971). Career in academic medicine (retired 2017). Now pursuing career in music, focussing on composition. After piano lessons in childhood in England, started composing at age 17 (1964). Initial works for solo piano and for small instrumental ensembles; somewhat later, a few vocal works. Self-directed musical education included reading theory, and studying and copying scores. Milestones include Read more [...]
Alexander Borodin

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 Read more [...]
Hans-Ulrich Brandt

Hans-Ulrich Brandt

Multi-talent – composer, pianist, saxophone player, violinist and more.Just besides being urologist. born in 1961 in Bremen he plays piano, saxophone, viola and accordeon and was member of the academy orchestras in Essen, Flensburg and Hamburg as well as in the chamber orchestra in Riegelsberg and Saarbrücken. Already in his youth he composes musicals, piano music, chamber music and songs. In 2000 he founded the Tango Quartet “Tango azul” which existed until 2006 – of course Read more [...]
Isa Bittel

Isa Bittel

...born in Tübingen, grown up in Hofheim am Taunus and Glashütten im Taunus medical doctor and pediater studied clarinet for many years with Udo Schmitt, Frankfurt/Main and after 1980 with Hans Deinzer, Hannover (by the way also the teacher of Sabine Meier) several prizes at competition "Jugend musiziert" (double Landesprize Hessen/piano, triple Landesprize Hessen and 2nd national prize/clarinet) Scholarship of Deutscher Musikrat (and other foundations). The german Musikrat Read more [...]
Susanne Pechel

Susanne Pechel

due to a school teacher who did not allow her to arrange a beneficial recital in her school she shifted towards independant organisation and organised her events on her own. Coming from the piano she switched to guitar From this she could rise a beneficial organisation and engage herself in several overseas countries with significant projects. more in German: Die Münchner Tropenärztin Dr. med. Susanne Pechel wurde 1966 in Montevideo (Uruguay) geboren. Seit ihrem 13. Lebensjahr Read more [...]
Livio Claudio Bressan

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 Read more [...]
Eckart Altenmüller

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 Read more [...]
Anna Maria Habermann

Anna Maria Habermann

(EN:) Anna Maria Habermann, daughter of an italian mother and a hungarian father has studied different subjects:She got her piano diploma in 1964 at the "conservatorio di musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia" and plays as soloist and with her chamber music trio. She got her medical degree with "summa cum laude" at the Siena university in 1969 and has worked as assistant doctor in anesthesia and surgery. Further on she specialized in orthopedics and traumatologics, practising these specialities Read more [...]