Month: July 2022

Sam Bierstock

Sam Bierstock

Physician, Professional Musician (Harmonicologist), Entertainer, and Medical Informaticist, Radio and Television co-host, Dr. Sam has been delivering his "music with a message" and entertaining at healthcare events, professional conferences, corporate meetings, conventions and political events in more than 40 states since 1996. He has been featured in leading national publications such as People Magazine and USA Today, and such national radio and television venues as CNN, FOX TV, CNN, and National Read more [...]
Eli Newberger

Eli Newberger

For more than 30 years, Dr. Newberger's consolation at the end of stressful workdays was his weekly gigs as tuba player for the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. As he left the clinic and entered Boston's jazz scene, he moved from a world filled with misery to one teeming with creative energy. "At five I leave the clinic and forty-five minutes later I pull into a parking lot outside Coffee, Tea, and Melody, the pub the Black Eagles have been playing since 1995," he wrote in Doctors Afield. "I take Read more [...]
Harri Hyppölä

Harri Hyppölä

Harri Hyppölä is ConductorDoc and founder of the Finnish Tahdistinorkesteri in Kuopio/Finland. Facharzt für Innere Medizin und Akutmedizin, LT, Dozent Harri Hyppölä arbeitet im Zentralkrankenhaus Mikkeli. Er ist von der Position des Chefarztes der Notaufnahme von Kysi beurlaubt. Hyppölä ist auch als Dirigent des Tahdistin-Orchesters bekannt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRwBB3lNahQ web wikipedia DEwikipedia EN youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
Gert Feser

Gert Feser

Gert Feser is conducting the "ensemble con brio", one of the leading amateur orchestras in Würzburg/Germany. He is medical doctor and professor for music therapy and understands making music as a fountain for joy and prevention of diseases and protection of human spirit and creativity. Thus his rehearsals are often making the participants enthusiastic..... Feser has studied with Prof. Reinartz at the Würzburg music academy and passed his exam as conductor. He took classes with Sergiu Celibidache Read more [...]
Ching-Hong Kao

Ching-Hong Kao

Ching-Hong KAO Ching-Hong Kao is conductor of the PCOT - Physician Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan and other orchestras.He wrote a letter: Dear Wolfgang Thank you for your regular news letters. I just finished a 3-year master program of orchestra conducting at the Soochow University in Taipei, and keep working with my 'Physicians' Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan' and the 'Taipei Civic Symphony Orchestra'. Of course, I am still a busy ophthalmologist, specialized in ocular plastic and reconstructive Read more [...]
PCOT – Physicians Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan

PCOT – Physicians Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan

In 1991, a group of physicians and health care professionals, talented and dedicated, began the "Physicians' Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan ". Since then, they have given more than one hundred concerts around the island, includingregular performances in the Taipei National Concert Hall. In 1999 this chamber orchestra expanded to form the Taipei Civic Symphony Orchestra. In their 2001 French concert tour, the proceeds benefited the 'Vie etEspoir' association, a children cancer fundation. Each year, Read more [...]
Simon Schindler

Simon Schindler

(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 Read more [...]
Jeffrey Tate

Jeffrey Tate

Sir Jeffrey Philip TateCBE (28 April 1943 – 2 June 2017) was an English conductor of classical music. Tate was born with spina bifida and had an associated spinal curvature. After studying medicine at the University of Cambridge and beginning a medical career in London, he switched to music and worked under Georg Solti at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before making his conducting debut in 1979 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. He held conducting appointments with the English Read more [...]
Jany Renz

Jany Renz

During his international career as Lied accompanist and chamber musician he was partner of leading Lied singers and leading instrumentalists. He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher in Basel. Master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache completed his studies. He was chief conductor of the symphony orchestra Dornach/Switzerland. His career began in Italy where he became first maestro and artistic vice director. Later he spent a long time in South Korea as director Read more [...]