Category Archives: SingerDocs

2025-04-25
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Rupa Marya

Tags : 1950-1999 San Francisco USA

Category : CharityDocs , ComposerDocs , FarmerDoc , PianoDocs , SingerDocs , SpeakerDocs , WriterDocs

Rupa Marya is a doctor, activist, musician and writer based in San Francisco. She is a professor of medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine^[1] and co-author of the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (with Raj Patel).^[2] She is currently suspended from teaching and banned from the UCSF campus after what the university described as the “targeting” of a first-year student from Israel in a social media post. The post cited speculation from the Israeli student’s classmates about potential service in the Israel Defence Forces and possible involvement in Israeli war crimes.

Marya was born in California to immigrant Indian parents. Her childhood was spent in the US, France, and India.^[3] She attended the University of California San Diego, earning degrees in theater and molecular biology, before attending medical school at Georgetown University. It was during her residency at UCSF that she began writing and performing music.

Marya is the composer and front-woman of the band Rupa & the April Fishes^[20] and was a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit that brought the song “Happy Birthday to You” back to the public domain.^[21]^[22]

Rupa & the April Fishes’ debut album, “Extraordinary Rendition“, reflects on the societal impact of the September 11 attacks, while her subsequent album, “Este Mundo,” draws from her interactions with undocumented immigrants facing severe health challenges.^[23] In “Este Mundo,” Rupa’s lyrics explore themes of longing, loss, and love, maintaining a thoughtful and intimate perspective.^[24] Her music incorporates influences from jazz, tango, klezmer, Latin American, and Balkan music.^[25]

Marya has said her sense of justice was awakened in childhood as she witnessed class differences in India, and learned about colonization and genocide perpetrated against Native Americans in the United States.^[5] She is involved in numerous organizations working at the intersection of social justice and health, including the Do No Harm Coalition^[6] and Deep Medicine Circle.^[7] She was recognized in 2021 with the Women Leaders in Medicine Award by the American Medical Student Association. She was a reviewer of the American Medical Association’s Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity. In 2019, Marya was among the physicians appointed by Governor Newsom to the Healthy California for All Commission.^[8]^[9]

Marya has been vocal on social media as well as in her capacity as a medical professional regarding violations of Palestinian human rights.^[10] After Dr. Avromi Kanal sent an email to hospital staff arguing against a cease-fire resolution, Marya publicly described this email as an “expression of anti-Arab hate” that prompted doctors of South Asian and North African descent “to say they do not feel safe in his presence.”

https://rupamarya.org

https://www.theaprilfishes.com

https://www.youtube.com/@theaprilfishes/featured

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

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupa_%26_the_April_Fishes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupa_%26_the_April_Fishes

https://www.facebook.com/drrupamarya

PianoDoc Rupa

2025-04-24
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Milad Shadrooh

Tags : 1950-1999 GB London

Category : ComedyDocs , DanceDocs , SingerDocs , TeacherDocs , WriterDocs

Dr. Milad begann 2012 mit seiner Tätigkeit als Dozent für Zahnmedizin und hat seitdem Tausende von Zahnärzten in Zahnschienen und kosmetischer Zahnheilkunde geschult. Darüber hinaus hält er Vorlesungen für Zahnmedizinstudenten an verschiedenen Universitäten in Großbritannien und im Ausland. Im Jahr 2020 gründete Dr. Milad gemeinsam mit seinem Freund und Kollegen Dr. Robbie Hughes, einem sehr erfolgreichen Zahnarzt und Unternehmer, Avantgarde Dentistry.

2024 führten sie „Same Day Smile“ ein, ein Konzept, das innerhalb eines Tages ein außergewöhnliches Lächeln ermöglicht.

Dr Milad began lecturing in dentistry in 2012, and he has trained thousands of dentists in dental aligners and cosmetic dentistry since, as well as lecturing to dental students at various universities throughout the UK and abroad. In 2020, Dr Milad joined forces with his friend and colleague Dr Robbie Hughes, a very successful dentist and fellow entrepreneur, to establish Avantgarde Dentistry.

In 2024, they have launched Same Day Smile, a concept that can deliver outstanding smile makeovers in one day.

https://singingdentist.com

https://www.facebook.com/dentistsinging

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGh_mtyy1pJ67wVkqK11xsg

https://www.instagram.com/singingdentist

Ronny Tekal

Tags : 1950-1999 Austria Wien

Category : CharityDocs , ComedyDocs , ComposerDocs , JournalistDocs , PianoDocs , radioDocs , SingerDocs , SpeakerDocs , TeacherDocs , WriterDocs

Ronny Tekal (born Ronny Teutscher on July 23, 1969 in Vienna) is an Austrian physician, cabaret artist, medical journalist, radio producer, author and co-founder of the medical cabaret Peter & Tekal.

Dr. Ronny Tekal is a general practitioner, medical cabaret artist, radio producer, and author. His satirical columns appear in “Ärzte-Woche,” “Ärztemagazin,” the Swiss “Weltwoche,” and various health magazines.
He is the Ö1 radio doctor for Austrian Broadcasting. He is a frequently booked keynote speaker, communications trainer, and moderator at medical symposia and conferences.

With the medical cabaret comedy duo Peter & Tekal, which he co-founded, he has brought laughter to around 500,000 patients (sorry, it’s a habit!) and audiences. He lives near Vienna.

Tekal studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in medicine in 1995. He has been a general practitioner since 2000. He lives in Mauerbach near Vienna.

Even during his studies, he composed sing-alongs for school classes, as well as the musical “Hospital,” which premiered in Vienna in 1992. This was followed by compositions for musicals by the children’s theater group “Die Stachelbären” at the Vienna Theater am Alsergrund, under the direction of Andreas Hutter, and for the play “Coccinella” by the Theater Impetus.

In 1995, he founded the cabaret duo Peter & Teutscher with communications scientist Norbert Peter. Since 2006, the group has focused exclusively on medical topics, choosing the name “Medical Cabaret.” Similar to the work of German physicians and cabaret artists Eckart von Hirschhausen, Lüder Wohlenberg, and Ludger Stratmann, their work focuses on satirical explorations of doctors, patients, and the medical system. Elements of the seminar cabaret created by Austrian psychologist Bernhard Ludwig also appear.

In 2000, they won the audience vote as the best Austrian participants at the Vienna Goldener Kleinkunstnagel (Golden Cabaret Nail) and twice received the Munich Kabarett Kaktus (Cabaret Kaktus). In 2013, the cabaret duo’s name was changed to Peter & Tekal.[2]

A portrait of the artists with excerpts from their programs was shown several times on ORF and 3sat in 2001, and the program Seitensprung (Side Jump) was also broadcast on Premiere Austria. In 2013, the program Patientenflüsterer (Patient Whisperer) was broadcast on ORF III as part of the Hyundai Cabaret Days. In 2016, he appeared on ORF with Echt krank! (Really Sick!) as part of Kabarett im Turm (Cabaret in the Tower).

Tekal is a member of the ORF radio science editorial team, an author, speaker, and creator of contributions for Ö1, primarily for Ö1 Radiodoktor.

His satirical column, “Side Effects,” has been published weekly in Ärzte-Woche (Springer-Verlag) since 2008.

As a founding member of PULS – Association for Combating Sudden Cardiac Death, Tekal headed the organization between 2008 and 2013. During this time, as part of this initiative, in addition to major first aid events in Vienna, the first publicly accessible defibrillators for laypersons (AEDs) were installed. The goal of making Vienna heart-safe was implemented jointly with the City of Vienna and the major emergency services. In 2013, there were over 300 defibrillators registered in the defibrillator network in Vienna at subway stations, shopping centers, the airport, public buildings, and police stations.[4] At the 4th German Interdisciplinary Emergency Medicine Congress in 2013, the presentation of the PULS campaign “Vienna Becomes HEART-Safe” was awarded first place.

Tekal, together with the second PULS founder, emergency physician Roman Fleischhackl, received the Vienna Helper Prize 2013 from the Vienna city government.

https://www.ronnytekal.com

https://www.medizinkabarett.at/peter-tekal

https://www.youtube.com/@petertekal6051/featured

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

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

2025-04-17
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Nidecker family

Tags : 1950-1999 Basel Switzerland

Category : (table-)tennisDocs , (water-)skiingDocs , AlphornDocs , BreweryDoc , CharityDocs , MountainClimberDocs , SailingDocs , SingerDocs

The Fischerstube Brewery AG is a Swiss brewery headquartered in Basel. It produces beer under the brand name “Ueli Bier.”

In 1974, the physician Hans-Jakob Nidecker (1919–2005)[4] acquired the Fischerstube restaurant at Rheingasse 45 in Kleinbasel, which had stood vacant for several years, in order to revive the local economy. Nidecker grew up on Rebgasse, had deep roots in Kleinbasel, and was a master of the Kleinbasel Rebhaus honorary society for several years. As early as 1970, Nidecker had rendered outstanding services to Basel’s traditions when he established a foundation specifically for the purpose of saving the Basel ferries from commercialization and an uncertain future. The first tenants of the newly opened Fischerstube were the innkeepers Silvia and Mike Künzli.

His son, Niklaus Nidecker, born in 1949, is a general practitioner and practices in Erlach on Lake Biel. He is married and has two adult daughters. His hobbies are beer and sailing. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the brewery and oversees customers and employees. The wife of another brother (a musician) is the managing director.

The other son, Dr. Andreas Nidecker, is a radiologist in Basel and a member of the brewery council. His presentation can be seen at the bottom of this page.

On November 13, 1974, the first beer flowed from the tap of the Fischerstube. Nidecker chose “Ueli” as the beer’s name,[8] a figure from the tradition of the three Kleinbasel honorary societies. The brewery began small, with an annual output of just 475 hectoliters, but with three varieties.[9] Nidecker quickly realized that he needed to hire a qualified master brewer. He hired Anton Welti, a native of Emmental, who had just returned from Ghana in West Africa, where he had worked for several years as a master brewer for a large brewery. The choice proved to be a stroke of luck, and Welti contributed significantly to the company’s success. He remained loyal to Ueli-Bier as a master brewer for 34 years and during this time repeatedly developed new and original beers until he retired in 2009.[10] In 2010, Jürgen Pinke became master brewer.

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

Radiobeitrag SRF https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/50-jahre-ueli-bier-wie-ein-basler-arzt-gegen-das-schweizer-bierkartell-kaempfte

Website der Brauerei Fischerstube

Dear colleague Ellenberger

It is a pleasure for me to send you a photo for the DoctorsHobbies.com web. It has been shot in the Wallis Alps in the area of Trento.

My environmental activities consist of two groups, the medical doctors of environmental protection and with energy politics at the medical doctors of social responsibility. We are working against atomic war.

Even if not every colleague can be active politically it seems to be important to be active in one or another form. Since our profession still receives a lot of respect and doors open more easily we can achieve something!

Besides this I play tennis, sometimes also Alp Horn (!), I am singing as bass in the Basel Vocal Ensemble and I go jogging, apart from the mountain climbing. As founder and member of the Basel “association for medical cooperation” I visit our partner hospitals in Serbia and Zambia on a yearly basis and teach there.

An actual project is to supply 70 egyptian hospitals with x-ray equipment. My special task is to assure not only the correct installation of the machines but also the correct use by the staff!

Hoping that these informations are useful I send my warmest greetings

Andreas Nidecker

Prof. Dr. med. A. Nidecker
Universität Basel

Thank you, Prof. Nidecker!
This nice e-mail with information about your NON-medical activities is perfectly the spirit of DoctorsHobbies.com

Let us hope many others will think and act the same way!
Yours

Wolfgang E.

2025-04-15
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Matthias Gerchen

Tags : 1950-1999 Germany Hannover

Category : SingerDocs

Matthias Gerchen is Bass-singer.

The German bass, Matthias Gerchen, had worked as a physician, when he started studies in singing with Prof. Carl-Heinz Müller in Hannover. Studies with Christoph Stephinger and – for many years – with Margreet
Honig, Amsterdam, followed. These were completed by master-classes with Ingrid Bjoner, Jessica Cash, Elio Battaglia and Josef Metternich.

With his wide-ranged repertoire from renaissance to modern music, Matthias Gerchen is a much sought-after concert performer. On the opera stage, he performed in works by Cavalli, George Frideric Handel, Mozart and Rossini. Recently, he performed the title role in Ulysse by Reinhard Keiser at Braunschweig State Theater. He may also be heard as a Lied interpreter. His interest lies with the late Romantic period in particular. He has been invited to numerous international festivals, such as Brügge, Innsbruck, Melbourne, Prague, and Utrecht, and has worked with conductors as Martin Gester, Eduardo Lopez Banzo and Konrad Junghänel. He has recorded works by J.S. Bach, Biber, Monteverdi, Johannes Brahms, Dvorák and Strauss for various European radio stations and for CD’s.

Matthias Gerchen teaches at Hanover and Bremen and at the Bremen University for the Arts. From 1997 to 2001 he was a visiting professor at Escola das Artes in Porto/Portugal.

Konstantin Beier

Tags : 1950-1999 Basel Switzerland

Category : SingerDocs

(born 1955), associate professor of anatomy and cell biology, studied singing with Prof. S. Colombo. Since 1986, he has performed as a soloist, with a repertoire focused on sacred music. In addition to numerous engagements in Germany, concert tours have taken him to Luxembourg, France, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.

Profil Uni Basel

Tamás Hacki

Tags : 1900-1949 Germany Hungary Regensburg

Category : ArtWhistlingDocs , GuitarDocs , SingerDocs , StringDocs

Tamás Hacki (Budapest, February 18, 1944) is a Hungarian ENT doctor, university professor and art-whistler.

At the age of five, he began whistling, learned to play the violin, and was also a choir member. He shared first prize in “Who Knows What?” in 1962. That same year, he graduated from Kölcsey Ferenc Gymnasium in Budapest. He began university studies and graduated as an ENT specialist in 1970. He then worked in the ear, nose, and throat department of Budapest’s MÁV Hospital and participated in the MIDEM Festival in Cannes that same year. His albums have been released in several countries. In 1983–1984, he went on a phoniatric study trip to Germany and subsequently completed his specialist examination in Budapest. In 1986, one of his German professors called him back, and he taught at the Hanover Medical School for six years. He completed his habilitation in 1990 and became a university professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Regensburg in 1992. On New Year’s Eve 2007, he performed with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, and on March 20, he gave a concert in Munich with his former backing band, the Ex-Antiquis Band. He currently lives in Regensburg, where he worked at the University Hospital.

He founded the Clinic for Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology and the associated Speech Therapist Training Institute, as well as a rehabilitation department that treats voice and swallowing disorders. He is also a frequent guest in Hungary, leads several specialist and speech therapist training courses, organizes conferences, and gives lectures. In 2008, he received the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany1 and in 2015, the Pro Cultura Hungarica Award. In 2022, he was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Die Lerche und Playlist auf youtube where he accompanies himself on the guitar

wikipedia HU

2025-04-08
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Vincenzo Costigliola

Tags : 1950-1999 Belgium Brussels

Category : SingerDocs

The founder and president of the EMA – European Medical Association was professional tenor.

2025-03-30
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Gloria Bruni

Tags : 1950-1999 Germany Hamburg

Category : ComposerDocs , SingerDocs , StringDocs

Gloria Bruni (born Brünhild Ulonska in 1955 in Oschersleben) is a German singer (soprano), violinist, composer and dentist.

Gloria Bruni is the daughter of a physicist and grew up with her sister in Hamburg.[3] She graduated from the Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium in 1973. She received piano and violin lessons as a child and sang during her school years. In addition to studying dentistry and obtaining a doctorate,[4] she also studied composition with Diether de la Motte and singing with Naan Pöld in Hamburg, as well as in Munich and Milan.[3][5]

Bruni played as a violinist in the Hamburg Camerata Accademica and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, and performed on tours at venues including Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[3]

As a singer, she was signed by Polydor and performed at the Puccini Festival and La Scala in Milan, with the London Mozart Players at the Dresden Semperoper and at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.[3]

Bruni is married, has a daughter and lives in Hamburg.

Bruni composes primarily for choir and vocal soloists. Her compositions often incorporate elements of folk or sacred music, combining different musical genres.

Her Requiem a Roma was premiered in the Holy Year 2000[6] as a commission from the Vatican in the church of Sant’Ignazio[4] and excerpts were also performed before Pope John Paul II.[3] In 2008, the children’s opera Pinocchio, which she composed, premiered in the Laeiszhalle with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.[7][3] Further performances of the work followed, including at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Teatro Regio di Parma.[7][8] The musical The Thorn Birds (“The Thorn Birds”), based on the libretto by Colleen McCullough, premiered in 2009 by the Wales Theatre Company, followed by a tour of Great Britain.[3][9] Other works include the fairytale mini-opera The Enchanted Pancake and Symphony No. 1 – Ring Parable (after G. E. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise), which also premiered in the Laeiszhalle.[10] This symphony has been performed not only as a concert, but also several times as a ballet.

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youtube

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

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