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Siglind Bruhn

Siglind Bruhn (born October 11, 1951 in Hamburg) is a German musicologist and concert pianist.

Biographical Sketch

Siglind Bruhn was born in Hamburg. Her father was the engineer Ernst Bruhn, her mother the interpreter Leonore Bruhn née Kieberger. During the last two years before her high school graduation (Abitur 1970), she was a student in the piano class of Professor Eckart Besch at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She completed her studies in the master class of Vladimir Horbowski at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; 1975 State Examen (equivalent to a Master of Music) majoring in piano. Concurrently she read Romance studies, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy at Munich University; 1976 Magister Artium (M.A.) with a thesis on the drama of Ramón del Valle-Inclán. During this time she met her future husband, the philosopher Gerhold K. Becker. In 1976-78 Siglind Bruhn wrote her first book, which links the pedagogical heritage of her teacher Horbowski with first attempts at her own research. After another four years of teaching she entered the university and music University of Vienna for doctoral studies; 1985 Dr. phil. summa cum laude with an interdisciplinary dissertation in musical analysis and psychoanalysis. Two years later she followed her husband, who had accepted a position in Hong Kong, and taught for six years at The University of Hong Kong. During her first sabbatical (1993-1994), which she spent at the University of Michigan, USA, she was invited to the Institute for the Humanities, where she is currently a Life Research Associate.

Positions

  • 1975-1976 Piano Teacher, City of Stuttgart Music School
  • 1977-1978 Piano, Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva
  • 1978-1982 music director of the music school community of Unterhaching
  • 1982-1987 Director and Lecturer, Institute of Musical Interpretation, Dinkelsbühl
  • 1984-1987 Director and lecturer, pianist Academy, Ansbach
  • 1987-1994 Director of Studies in Music, School of Vocational and continuing education, The University of Hong Kong
  • 1993-1997 Research Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities, Arbor The University of Michigan, Ann
  • Since 1997, Life Research Associate at the Institute for Humanities, die University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Honorary Positions

Awards

Book Publications (English only)

  • Guidelines for Piano Interpretation, Penerbit Muzikal Malaysia, 1989. 967-985 ISBN-180-X
  • J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: In-depth analysis and interpretation. Mainer International, 1993. ISBN 962-580-017-4, 962-580-018-2, 962-580-019-0, 962-580-020-0
  • Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music: The Extra-Musical Subtext in Piano Works by Ravel, Debussy and Messiaen, Peter Lang 1997th ISBN 0-945193-95-5 - Google
  • The Temptation of Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler as a Spiritual Testimony, Pendragon, 1998. ISBN 1-57647-013-X - Google
  • Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting, Pendragon, 2000. ISBN 0-945193-036-9
  • Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke's Marienleben, Rodopi, 2000. ISBN 90-420-0800-8 - Google
  • Saints in the Limelight: Representations of the Religious Quest on the Post-1945 Operatic Stage, Pendragon, 2003. ISBN 1-57647-096-2 - Google
  • The Musical Order of the World: Kepler, Hesse, Hindemith, Pendragon, 2005. ISBN 978-1-57647-117-3 - Google
  • Messiaen's Contemplations of Covenant and Incarnation: Musical Symbols of Faith in the two great piano cycles of the 1940s, Pendragon, 2007. ISBN 978-1-57647-129-6 - Google
  • Messiaen's Explorations of Love and Death: Musical Signification in the Tristan Trilogy and Three related song cycles, Pendragon, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57647-136-4 - Google
  • Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity: Echoes of Medieval Theology in the Oratorio, Organ Meditations, and Opera, Pendragon, 2008. ISBN 978-1-57647-139-5 - Google

German-language book publications Buchpublikationen_.28deutsch.29 here

Editorial Work

Essay collections as contributing author Published

  • Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love. New York: Garland 1998. ISBN 0-8153-2747-1 - Google
  • Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music . New York: Garland 1998. ISBN 0-8153-2480-4 - Google
  • Signs in Musical Hermeneutics [ The American Journal of Semiotics 13/1-4], 1998. ISSN 0277-7126
  • Voicing the Ineffable: Musical Representations of Religious Experience. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press 2002. ISBN 1-57647-089-1 - Google
  • Sonic Transformations of Literary Texts: From Program Music to Musical Ekphrasis. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press 2008th ISBN 1-57647-140-1
  • Since 2000, series editor (together with Magnar Breivik, University of Trondheim, Norway) of the book series "Interplay: Music in Interdisciplinary Dialogue" published by Pendragon Press - ~ Siglind / interplay.htm Interplay

Performances

First solo concerts and performances with orchestras as a soloist at the age of 14 Solo and chamber concerts in fast EVERY major city in the Federal Republic of Germany in 23 other countries and on all continents, five (example: Zurich, London, Paris, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Warsaw, Budapest, Venice, Athens, Beirut, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Quito, Manila, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Melbourne, Adelaide, Washington). Recordings with most broadcasters in Germany and several European and other Western stations. One LP and four CDs.

  • Maurice Ravel: ''Histoires Naturelles'', Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death. Kallisch Cornelia, mezzo-soprano; Siglind Bruhn, piano. LM-M E 2011 1984)
  • Paul Hindemith: five sonatas for strings and piano. [a] Andrew Jennings, violin, [b] Yizhak Schotten, viola; [c] Bruce Smith, viola d'amore, [d] Anthony Elliott, violoncello; [e] Derek Weller, double bass; piano: Siglind Bruhn, [a ], [c], [e], Katherine Collier [b], Anton Nel [d]. Equilibrium 1995
  • Paul Hindemith: five sonatas for woodwinds and piano. [a] Leone Buyse, flute, [b] Harry Sargous, oboe; [c] Fred Ormand, clarinet; [d] Harry Sargous, English horn; [e] Richard Beene, bassoon; piano: Siglind Bruhn, [a], [ b], [e], Anton Nel [c] [d]. Equilibrium 1995
  • Paul Hindemith: five sonatas for piano and brass instruments. [a] Charles Darval, trumpet, [b] Bryan Kennedy, French horn, [c] Charles Darval, alto horn, [d] H. Dennis Smith, trombone, [e] Fritz Kaenzig, tuba; piano: Siglind Bruhn, [a ], [b], [e], Robert Conway [c], Anton Nel [d]. Equilibrium 1996
  • Paul Hindemith: ''Ludus tonalis'' and Reihe kleiner Stücke. Siglind Bruhn, piano. Equilibrium 1996

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