Month: July 2022

Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong (Chinese: 黃大德) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian conductor and ophthalmologist [1]. Trained at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,[1] Dr. Wong is an eye surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In another career, he has conducted many international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Seattle and Houston Symphonies, Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, Read more [...]
Boyd Neel

Boyd Neel

Louis Boyd NeelO.C. (19 July 1905 – 30 September 1981) was an English, and later Canadian conductor and academic. He was Dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto. Neel founded and conducted chamber orchestras, and contributed to the revival of interest in baroque music and in the 19th and 20th Century string orchestra repertoire. Neel was born in Blackheath, London, and wanted to be a pianist as a child.[2] His mother, Ruby Le Couteur, was a professional Read more [...]
Thomas Stiegler

Thomas Stiegler

Ulla oder die schöne Lau Oper von Stiegler 1966 born in Meschede (D) 1987-94 studied medicine in Cologne, Freiburg and Frankfurt 1991-94 studied composition in Freiburg with Immanuel Nunes and Matthias Spahlinger since 1994 assistent doctor, since 2001 senior physician (internal medicine) 1997 1. prize at the International Composition Contest Boswil (CH) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgK5YyYG9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCy1XNsdPY8 web wikipedia DEwikipedia Read more [...]
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe siˈnɔːpoli]; 2 November 1946 – 21 April 2001)[1] was an Italian conductor and composer. Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen.[citation needed] He also obtained a degree in medicine from Read more [...]
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 Dachmann

Adam Dachmann

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 [...]
Henriette Müller

Henriette Müller

Henriette Müller (* 5. Januar 1961 in Ulm) is a German saxophone player and composer for Jazz music. She had a bigband for some time and contributed to a beneficial project in India. more in DE: Müller ist ursprünglich ausgebildete Ärztin, die auch in Zimbabwe und Großbritannien arbeitete. Anfang der 1990er Jahre ging sie nach New York City, um ihre Studien als Komponistin (bei Richard DeRosa und Ludmila Ulehla) und als Jazz-Saxophonistin (u. a. bei Bob Read more [...]
Johann Georg Adam Forster

Johann Georg Adam Forster

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster[nb 1] (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfɔʁstɐ], 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, on several scientific expeditions, including James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. His report of that journey, A Voyage Round the Read more [...]
Georg Forster

Georg Forster

Georg Forster (c. 1510 – 12 November 1568) was a German editor, composer and physician of the Renaissance period. Forster was born at Amberg, in the Upper Palatinate. While a chorister at Elector Ludwig V’s court in Heidelberg around 1521, he was a colleague of Caspar Othmayr who would also become a composer of renown. Forster received his first instruction in composition from the Kapellmeister Lorenz Lemlin. Forster died at Nuremberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0mrogOzIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVM0-sWJ5Q&t=35s web Read more [...]