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 worked scientifically and got severyl patents atz the Battelle-Institute. He settled as ophthalmologist in Oberursel/Germany, later in Frankfurt (Main).
He was active Rallye-driver (seven participation at the “Tour d’Europe”), motor journalist and wrote a book about eye-glasses-cardriving, he was free lance for several car magazines and radio stations. Since 1975 he regularly writes compositions, mainly piano works in form of variations, dances and character pieces.
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 performances of music for chamber orchestra by community orchestras in California (early 1990s) and Philadelphia (2005), and (especially) recent professional performances: rehearsal/recording of Sinfonia No. 1 by The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia (COP; 2015); readings of my 4 string quartets by the Wister Quartet (Philadelphia) in 2017-18; performance of String Quartet No. 4 by Wister Quartet (March 2020); performances of work for solo viola (Danza per Viola da Braccio); transcription of Mozart Adagio in B minor (K. 540) for string orchestra performed by COP in January 2020.
An interest in musicology is exemplified by the following article:
Heyworth, Martin F. (2019) “Mozart’s Annotations of Haydn Symphony Themes and Their Relationship to the “Linz” Symphony, K. 425″, HAYDN: Vol. 9: No. 2, Article 2.
Available at: https://remix.berklee.edu/haydn-journal/vol9/iss2/2.
My wallpaper reflects my affinity with the natural world, and is a photograph that I took at Lower Hilcot in the Cotswolds (between Cheltenham and Cirencester, in England) on the 11th of September, 2006.
…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.
(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 in the Niguarda hospital of Milano.
Since 1990 she worke as free lance and researches about the deseases of musicians.
She gave classes of neuro-physiology of learning for musicians at the “Accademia Incontri con il Maestro di Imola” and at the “conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Milano”.
Her scientific publications are numerous. AND she writes prosa books like her last publication “L´Ultima Lettera Di Tibor”.
26 october 2002 “primo premio assoluto” of Literature Prize “Mario Tobino” for Italy given to Dr.med. Annamaria Habermann for her book: “L´Ultima Lettera Di Tibor”, published in italian and coming close to be a bestseller…
Dott. Sergio Nazzar and Dott. Anna Maria Habermann during a lecture of her book “L´Ultima Lettera Di Tibor”in Rome.
Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938)[1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics’ Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack for the 1978 science-fiction horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.[2]
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Dear Mr. Ellenberger! Thank you for your activity to bring together the right people. TO support your work and simplify it herewith you get my permission to use any material from my homepage ( www.desch-musicproduction.de ). I feel you have the right touch to present colleagues at www.DoctorsTalents.com .
There is little to say about my professional career. Music, piano and composition studies were runing parallel with the medical studies….. [remark from Wolfgang Ellenberger: Right, Otmar, nothing easier than that!] After my medical exam I was working at the theatre in Münster/Germany for 15 years (my parents were frightened), then I went to Berlin to have an own office as a general practitioner (and NOT give up to compose and give recitals in the Berlin area). As I had planned I sold the office at age 60 and from end of 2001 I am musical director, pianist and composer at the theatre in Stendal/Germany.
Focus of my composition style (just besides the oratorium and many many stage music pieces exposed n my homepage) is concert music between twelve tone music and jazz, as it can be found in my two concerts for piano and orchestra (a sample will be sent…). Since 2007 I finally have the time to concentrate on marketing of these products since I make only contracts with the theatre about single productions. By the way I am looking for prominent editors … see what happens…. this much for today! Desch
Born in 1942 Composer, pianist, specialist in general medicine (Focus: psychosomatics) Pianistic training: most recently with Prof. Klaus Hellwig (Münster / Berlin, University of the Arts) Composition studies with Prof. Harry Höfer (Münster) Composition courses with Mauricio Kagel (Cologne / WDR)
In 1960, at the age of 18, he began coaching ballet at the Münster Municipal Theater and, after completing his studies, was permanently employed as a solo accompanist (opera, operetta, and musical). In parallel with his coaching, he composed numerous stage scores and, after two more years, took over as director of incidental music at the municipal theaters and at the Münster Zimmertheater (Wolfgang Borchert Theater).
This was followed by guest engagements at various German stages (including the Landesbühne Niedersachsen / Wilhelmshaven) with commissions for further stage music, arrangements and musical direction of musicals, stage music and revues (including Hallo Dolly, Kiss Me Kate, Irma-La-Douce, Happy End, Threepenny Opera, Dance on the Volcano, Black Fair, The Romantics, Charly’s Aunt, Wirtshaus im Spessart, Puntila and his servant Matti, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, At the White Horse Inn, Secretaries, Men).
With the “Otmar Desch Jazz Trio” (now “1-stein Jazz Trio”), he performed nationwide, composed and accompanied (at concerts in Hamburg, Munich, Bremen, Detmold, Münster, and Marburg) chanson programs by singer and actor Thomas Kylau (with live performances on WDR/NDR and participation in the North German Chanson Festival in Hamburg), and produced the chanson record “Lieder statt Kakteen” (German Progressive / (Kraut-) Rock – Record Price Guide).
As a pianist with the North German rock-jazz group “Humus,” he also performed nationwide and recorded his first record, “Offshore,” with the Planungs-Verlag Dortmund publishing house in 1976 (The JAZZ Discography – by Tom Lord).
He can be counted among the first German composers to combine “serious” music with “pop” music and to introduce it into symphony concert programs (composition and spectacular premiere of his “Requiem For Elvis Presley” with the rock jazz group “Humus” and members of the Münster Municipal Symphony Orchestra, among others).
He taught as a pianist at the Westphalia-Lippe University of Education for several semesters.
At the Westphalian School of Music (Münster, under the direction of Prof. Vetter), he led the jazz department of what is now the University of Music. He also served for several years as the responsible director of national jazz and pop music courses within the Westphalia-Lippe State Association for Music.
He directed several regional choirs (mixed choirs, men’s choirs, and women’s choirs) and successfully performed the first “choir shows” in the Westphalia region.
He composed numerous “ecumenical songs” for Protestant and Catholic congregations in the Westphalia region and played various jazz masses of his own in the ecumenical arena (performing with “Pit” Janssens, among others).
His artistic collaborators include well-known artists such as actor Mario Adorf and mime artist Prof. Sammy Molcho (Vienna), as well as actresses Anja Kruse, Ute Lemper, and Marie-Luise Marjan, as well as Udo Lindenberg (drums / “modern jazz”) and TV presenter Götz Alsmann. He has also performed as a pianist on talk shows with Alfred Biolek, among others.
In 1980, parallel to his artistic activities, he opened a general practice in Berlin-Lichtenrade and continued his studies as a hypnotherapist at the I.H. Schultz Institute in Berlin (directed by Dr. Dr. med. Thomas).
He caused a sensation in 1976 with the premiere of his orchestral suite (“Pick-Up Suite”): “Such a powerhouse! Otmar Desch blasts his self-composed musical into the keys, tearing the audience from their seats…” – Berliner Zeitung
As a result of his medical and hypnotherapeutic experiences, he composed the full-length oratorio “Fried’, üßer Vogel” (Fried, sweet bird) for organ, soloists, and small orchestra (premiered in 1999 in Berlin-Britz).
With his wife Ines Desch (née Irmer) – formerly principal oboist of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra – he began establishing “INESSA Music Production” in 2001 and now primarily produces various CDs, in addition to music for therapeutic use.
Current Position: Since 2001, he has been employed as Musical Director of the Dramatic Music Department at the Theater der Altmark (TdA), Stendal.
Multitalent, several media of publication: CD-productions, books, graphics, radio broadcastings, essays in press media, lecturing with scenical acting etc.
exhibition with graphics:
Essen, Hamburg, Gütersloh, Köln, Bonn, Osnabrück, Karsruhe, Bremen, Dortmund, Salzburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Solingen, Bad Godesberg etc.
publications of essays etc.:
SWF, WDR III, Dtsch, Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt (Hamburg), F A Z (Frankfurt), ärztl. Reise und Kulturmagazin (München), Generalanzeiger (Bonn), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zürich), Renovation (Regensburg), Deutsches Ärzteblatt (Köln), Medical Tribune (Wiesbaden), Hellweg Radio, DOM (Paderborn), „Kult” (Goldbach), „Die Kribbe”(Bonn ), “Medizin+Kunst” (München), Radio Sauerland, “Das Gedicht” (München). “Unsere Kirche” (Bielefeld).,Anthologie – Zeitschrift “Kurtzgeschichten”, Erasmus-Magazin (Universität Rotterdam), Der Allgemeinarzt.
numerous (also scenical) readings:
1997 participation at 10th NRW-Author meeting “Haus der Geschichte” (Bonn). one act piece „Der Regenbogen” (Scenical reading Schauspielhaus Bonn).
Selected Lyrics & Prosa by Hans Claßen and Mathias Knoll Rezitator: Hans Theopold is reading
Konturen
Poesie and Prosa
ISBN 3-930271-88-5
In den Wind geschrieben
New poesia and prosa
ISBN 3-930271-30-3
Bergschäden
short prosa and lyrics
ISBN 3-930271-02-X
A 45 Längs der Autobahn und anderswo
Literarische Fahrten
ISBN 3-933749-37-9
Poetischer Frühling im Sauerland
Polen erlesen
ISBN 3-932037-04-9
Kürschners Deutscher Literatur – Kal. 02 – 03
keine Angaben
ISBN 3-598-23585-2
Landschaft, Lyrik, Literatur.Wort-Bild-Kontraste
Lyrik & Prosa
ISBN 3-8311-0491-3
Tastengeflüster
Kurzgeschichten
ISBN 3-89906-752-5
Promotion team of Dikie-the food-locker-mouse
from left: Stefania (Sängerin), Laszlo Püski, (Musiklehrer, Produktion) Robert Josek (Arrangeur,Tontechnik, Produktion) Dr. Mathias Knoll (Idee, Text, Produktion
on the volcano
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flight afraidness
the cangoroo
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if the south wind blows…
on the search for the lost word
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