Anna-Sophie Brüning

Anna-Sophie Brüning is a German former violinist and concert master and today's conductor .

Brüning studied violin and piano in Hanover , Freiburg im Breisgau and Chicago , among others with Rainer Kussmaul , Shmuel Ashkenasi and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling . She completed her conducting studies at the Leipzig University of Music , from which she graduated in 2003 with a diploma and winning the Leipzig University Competition Conducting. In the same year she was accepted into the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council as a five-year scholarship holder .

Together with the author Paula Fünfeck , she has edited three operas for the Boosey & Hawkes publishing house as arranger , which have been translated into several languages ​​and are performed internationally at opera houses (including in Leipzig, Linz, Madrid, Bilbao, Pamplona, ​​Innsbruck, Baden-Baden , Dresden, Graz).

Musical stations

Anna-Sophie Brüning began her career in 1999 as a concertmaster at the Lübeck Theater and after three years switched from the orchestra to the accompaniment department, because an armache put an end to her career as a violinist.

In 2005 she was invited to the Komische Oper Berlin for the first time , where she worked as a guest conductor from 2006 to 2008 . At the same time she worked as a guest conductor a. a. with the Nuremberg Philharmonic , the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , the Polish Chamber Orchestra, the Northwest German Philharmonic , the Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz , the Philharmonic Gera and the Lübeck Philharmonic.

She has a close artistic collaboration with the State Youth Orchestra of Baden-Württemberg , not only as a multiple guest conductor during work phases, but also as the initiator and musical director of the opera project Apollo18 !, a cooperation between the State Youth Orchestra and the Adelsheim youth prison. The project was launched in 2011 together with the author and director Paula Fünfeck and the Adelsheim prison. Apollo18! has since performed inside and outside the prison walls (including in the Liederhalle Stuttgart, in the Baden-Baden theater, in Genshagen Castle and in the Adelsheim Castle Garden). The project was honored in September 2013 by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and nominated as the best European educational project in summer 2015.

In 2003, Brüning was hired by Daniel Barenboim to build and direct the first Palestinian symphony orchestra. She was artistic director of the orchestra of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Palestine and, for a number of years, artistic director of the Palestine Youth Orchestra and the orchestra of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music ( National Conservatory of Music Palestine ). She has given concerts in Palestine, Israel and Jordan.

Since 2007/2008 she has been guest conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker several times with concerts in the Tonhalle. She also conducted the Christmas concert of the Federal President with a one-hour ZDF broadcast on December 24, 2008. In 2009 she made her debut with Verdi's “la Traviata” at the Mannheim National Theater , and gave several concerts with the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Flensburg State Theater Orchestra. In 2010 she conducted at the Landestheater Oldenburg (the "Troubadour" by Verdi) and at the Theater Pforzheim ("Margarete" by Gounod). She performed the opera "Hansel and Gretel" at the podium of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover .

From 2012 to 2015 Brüning was the first conductor at the Landestheater Coburg . In the 2015/16 season she directed the world premiere of the new version of Franz Schubert's “Bürgschaft”, made her debut at a concert with Anke Engelke in the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and stood for the first time at the podium at the Innsbruck State Theater .

Social and political engagement

Brüning is an activist for the unconditional basic income and deals with the possible effects of a basic income on the theater and orchestra landscape. She ran for the party Alliance Basic Income (BGE) The basic income party in second place on the state list of Lower Saxony for the 2017 federal election .

Prices

• Apollo 18! Nominated as the best European educational project at the Kulturmarken Award 2015.
• Special prize of the Committee for Culture and Media of the German Federal Government for the Apollo 18 project ! , 2014.
• Praetorius Music Prize 2007.
• Zonta Music Prize 2006.

Web links

• Website of Anna-Sophie Brüning
• Anna-Sophie Brüning at Boris Orlob Management
• Music theater in the youth prison: Franz Schubert, Die Bürgschaft, Oper (1816) , YouTube video (1:34 hours), accessed on February 26, 2017.
• BGE: Open 17/1 Berlin Lecture by conductor Anna-Sophie Brüning , YouTube video (16:14 min.), Accessed on February 26, 2017.
• Guest blog post , accessed March 10, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boosey & Hawkes: Anna-Sophie Brüning - list of works. In: boosey.com , accessed February 27, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Boosey & Hawkes: Anna-Sophie Brüning - Schlaglicht. In: www.boosey.com , accessed February 26, 2017.
3. ↑ Anna Sophie Brüning: Biography In: www.annasophiebruening.de , accessed on February 27, 2017.
4. ↑ Anna-Sophie Brüning: blog guest post , accessed on March 10, 2017.
5. ↑ Anna-Sophie Brüning: BGE: Open 17/1 Berlin Lecture by conductor Anna-Sophie Brüning YouTube video (16 min.), Accessed on February 27, 2017.
6. ↑ Alliance Basic Income - LV Lower Saxony : Landesliste BTW17 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ni.buendnis-grundeinkommen.de , accessed on February 27, 2017. 
7. ^ Institute for Palestine Studies (IPK): Founder of the Palestinian Youth Symphony Orchestra receives music prize In: www.ipk-bonn.de , accessed on February 26, 2017.