(EN:) born in 1976 in Fulda he got music lessons at age 5. With 8 he began studying Cello at the local music school, then he did a lot with chamber music and worked himself into orchestra literature. His autodidactical conducting abilities were completed by studies with KMD Gunther-Martin Göttsche and Prof. Peter Winkler. After his “Abitur” (about high school degree) he wrote music critics and conducted a lot of sacred music recitals with amateur ensembles. Then he founded the Fulda Symphony Orchestra together with Karsten Aßmann, Dorothea Heller and Albert Flügel in 1999. For his cultural work he got the “Paul-Harris-Fellow” award by the local Rotary club. From 1997 to 2003 he studied medicine in Würzburg/Germany, since 2004 he is scientific assistant at the neuro-surgical university hospital Würzburg.
A 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.
…has been specialised in neurology and psychiatry with an own hospital in Stuttgart/Germany. He was accomplished as one of the most active collectors and supporters of contemporary arts in Germany after WW II. He was author and director of several films, supported contemporary films. He played Cello and organised events with works of contemporanean music.
To continue his and his wife’s (1909-1991) work is the main task of his foundation.
In memoriam of his 100th birthday on April 20, 2007 the foundation will present exhibitions about his different paths in life…
Beat Richner (13 March 1947 – 9 September 2018) was a Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children’s hospitals in Cambodia. He created the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Zurich in 1992 and became its head. Along with another expatriate, he oversaw and ran the predominantly Cambodian-manned hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Richner was known by patients, audiences, and donors as clown “Beatocello”, connecting his play with humour.
