Bernhard Richter (* 1962) is a German physician-musician and director of the Freiburg Institute for Musicians’ Medicine.
Richter received his musical training as a singer with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys’ Choir and through violin lessons with Hedwig Pahl. He studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, and Dublin. Parallel to his studies, Richter studied singing with Beata Heuer-Christen at the Freiburg University of Music from 1986 to 1991, culminating in a concert exam. Since 1992, Bernhard Richter has performed numerous times as a singer, including with pianist Claudia Spahn in the musical cabaret duo Die schönen Baritons.
After receiving his doctorate in medicine and completing two specialist training courses as an ENT specialist and a phoniatrist, Bernhard Richter qualified as a professor in 2002. In 2005, he was appointed professor of musician’s medicine with a focus on artistic voice training at the Faculty of Medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. He teaches voice physiology and hearing physiology at the University of Music and the Faculty of Medicine at the Albert Ludwig University.
Since its founding in 2005, Bernhard Richter has directed the Freiburg Institute for Musicians’ Medicine together with Claudia Spahn. He is responsible for the medical care of singers and musicians. He also cares for voice patients in speaking professions, such as actors and teachers.
The qualified psychosomaticist with a full range of recorder skills and the singing speech therapist with the greasy curls love performing late at night and in small groups. Their late-night performances in front of a maximum of 150 guests feature irony, chansons, and also Lieder and Schubert evenings with classical music.
Although neither Spahn nor Richter come from families of musicians or doctors, they pursued a dual career from an early age.
Recorder, piano, and violin, and before graduating from high school, they also received a scholarship to the Würzburg Conservatory of Music with her, joined the boys’ choir (Hymnus Chorknaben Stuttgart) from eight until his high school graduation, and simultaneously took singing lessons for him as a community service paramedic.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Richter_(Mediziner)
https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/musikermedizin/mitarbeiter/prof-dr-bernhard-richter.html
http://swisscharts.com/album/Burkhard-Richter-&-Claudia-Spahn/Ich-bin-ein-schoener-Bariton-37988
https://www.sack.de/spahn-richter-musik-mit-leib-und-seele/9783867391146
Auftritt bei Psychotherapietagen https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3167883983283721
