Barbara Koerppen

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Barbara Koerppen , née Boehr (born January 5, 1930 in Stolp / Pomerania ) is a German violinist, former lecturer at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and founder of the Hanover Youth Symphony Orchestra (JSO). She lives in Burgdorf in the Hanover region and in Sezze in Italy .

Life and education

Barbara Boehr was born on January 5, 1930 as the daughter of Gerta Boehr and the lawyer Günther Boehr. From the age of five she received violin lessons from Gabriele Peters and, after the family moved to Hanover in 1939, from Frieda Ritter. After the end of the war Koerppen spent a few months on a farm and after school started again at a grammar school in Hameln, he finished upper school with the Abitur.

In 1948 she took her entrance examination for violin as a major at the State Music School in Hanover, today's HMTMH. Her teachers included the concertmaster of the NDR orchestra, Hans Gravens, and the violinist Lilli Friedemann, with whom she experienced how to deal with early music and self-creative work during training. In addition to music, Barbara Koerppen was also interested in law and youth justice. While still at the university she met Alfred Koerppen , who taught composition and music theory as a lecturer at the university and from whom she received improvisation and figured bass lessons. In 1961 they married and then called themselves for a time with their double name Barbara Koerppen-Boehr.

Musician and teacher

In addition to studying the violin, she worked as an organist in the church service, taught violin herself and accompanied students on the piano. In 1963 she was appointed professor for violin and methodology as a major at the Hanover University of Music. She was in the Senate and took on various other tasks at the university, such as directing orchestral rehearsals for Felix Prohaska. She works with Shinichi Suzuki on a trip to Japan and promoted the spread of his Suzuki method in Germany. She worked for many years as a juror at state and national competitions of "Jugendmusiziert" and assessed educational literature for publishers. Koerppen worked for ten years as concertmaster at the Handel Festival in Herrenhausen and in the Hausegger Orchestra as well as in the Ferdinand Conrad chamber music group. As part of her work as concertmaster, she played the premiere of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Rome and Perugia under Paul Hindemith and worked with Enrico Mainardi and Carlo Secchi.

Formations and activities of orchestras

In 1961 she founded the Hanoverian Youth Symphony Orchestra together with Heinz Hennig and Erwin Wolf , which she directed until 1974. In 1954 she founded the Barbara Koerppen Chamber Orchestra, of which she was concertmaster and which she directed until 1979. The instrumentalists were mainly musicians from the Hannoversche Rundfunk. In addition, she led a large number of orchestral and chamber music seminars at the Seniors Academy Hamburg for ten years and was involved in courses on orchestral conducting at the Federal Academy in Trossingen.

In 1973 Barbara Koerppen was appointed professor at the Hanover University of Music and Theater .

From 1993 Barbara Koerppen was one of the soloists of the Koerppen Edition with the violin.

In 2002 Barbara Koerpen and her husband founded the Alfred Koerppen Foundation named after him , which supports young composers of serious music as well as performances and recordings of new music .

Awards

In 1965 Barbara Koerppen received the Lower Saxony Prize for Music and in 1992 the Federal Cross of Merit.

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  1. ↑ a b c Who is who? The German Who's Who , 45th edition, 2006, p. 721; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ German university leaders , W. Stoll cast Verlag, 1964, p 350; Preview over google books
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1961 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 251f .; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Fred Hamel (Ed.): Musica , Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1973, p. 317
  5. ↑ Meike Ziegenmeier: Handing over of medals / Professor Koerppen receives Cross of Merit , press release from June 19, 2007 on the website of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture , last accessed on August 27, 2017
  6. ↑ oV : Sibylle Wolf on the side of the Lower Saxony State Theater Hannover [no date], as last accessed on 27 August 2017
personal data
SURNAME Koerppen, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boehr, Barbara; Koerppen-Boehr, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolp , Pomerania