Bernd Ruf (conductor)
Bernd Ruf (born September 27, 1964 in Offenburg ) is a German conductor and clarinetist . He works mainly in the border area between classical , jazz , new music , rock and world music . In 2004 Bernd Ruf was appointed professor to the newly established chair for popular music, jazz and world music at the Lübeck University of Music .
life and work
Bernd Ruf grew up in Gengenbach, Baden, in a musical environment with classical and popular music. In his last two years at school, he attended a two-year conducting course alongside school. After graduating from high school, Bernd Ruf studied school music in Stuttgart and Frankfurt , graduated as a music teacher , jazz and popular music, music director and musicology . Bernd Ruf conducted musicals ( Miss Saigon , Les Misérables , Dance of the Vampires , Disney's Beauty and the Beast , The Lion King ), assisted Dennis Russell Davies with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Salzburg Festival and took over with the Stuttgart Philharmonic from 1999 until 2004 the conception and direction of various youth concerts. As a freelance conductor, he developed the Crossover Symphonies, special orchestral programs with African, Asian and Latin American musicians, with jazz and rock musicians. For the composer and violinist Gregor Hübner he conducted several world premieres in Stuttgart with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and in New York with the German-American Chamber Orchestra. He was a guest a. with the SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern , the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and the Bochumer Symphoniker . Bernd Ruf is a regular guest conductor at the Staatskapelle Halle , the Jena Philharmonic and the Württemberg Philharmonic in Reutlingen. In his orchestral crossover projects he worked a. a. with Jon Lord ( Deep Purple ), Roger Hodgson ( Supertramp ), Ian Anderson ( Jethro Tull ), Paul McCartney , Randy Brecker , Joe Lovano and Charlie Mariano . At the Handel Festival in Halle, he designed and directed the annual large-scale open-air event Bridges to the Classics . As Music Director, Bernd Ruf has headed the GermanPops Orchestra and the European Art Orchestra since 1999 . Both orchestras have made an international name for themselves through their studio work and regularly record classical, crossover, film and pop productions for international record labels. Bernd Ruf conducts various orchestral soundtracks for cinema, television and games ( Siedler , Anno , SpellForce , ParaWorld , Battleforge, Darksiders, House of the Lion).
As a clarinetist, he draws influences from playing styles of klezmer, jazz, south-east European folk music and classical music. Improvisation is an essential element of his music. In 1987, Bernd Ruf joined the Tango Five ensemble , which had been founded in Ravensburg two years earlier and has played since 1995 with the unchanged line-up of Gregor Hübner (violin), Veit Hübner (bass), Karl Albrecht Fischer (piano) and Bernd Ruf (clarinet). Numerous tours have taken the ensemble to the USA, South America, Georgia and Europe. On the one hand, Tango Five plays scenic music-comedy programs in which the four performers ironically tell little stories across all musical styles with a wide variety of instruments and a cappella singing. On the other hand, Tango Five plays music that has its roots in Southeastern European folk music, klezmer, gypsy, tango, classical and jazz.
Tango Five's collaboration with bandoneonist Raúl Jaurena began in 1998 with the CD production Obsecion. This was followed by appearances at the tango festivals in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. A year later, Bernd Ruf conceived and conducted his first “Crossover Symphony”, the “Latin Symphony” for the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , in which Jaurena made his debut as a bandoneon soloist with a European orchestra. Other joint tours followed, the “Symphonic Tango Night” with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the tango evening “Amando a Buenos Aires”, which was performed for several weeks in the Friedrichsbau- Varieté in Stuttgart. Bernd Ruf and Raul Jaurena have been playing together as a permanent duo since 2007 under the name JAURENA RUF Project .
Since 2004, Bernd Ruf has headed the popular music, jazz and world music department at the Lübeck University of Music . There he developed the "Lübeck Model", in which jazz and pop are not taught as an independent course, but rather work as an integral part of the classic courses. In the winter semester 2006 he took over the provisional management of the school music institute , since the winter semester 2008 he has been the deputy director of the institute. In May 2011 he took over the office of Vice President.
Awards
- 1991: Ravensburger Kupferle (Cabaret Prize) for Tango Five
- 1992: Kleinkunstpreis Baden-Württemberg (3rd place) for Tango Five
- 1995: Scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation
- 1999: Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
- 2002: Grammy nomination as conductor in the category Best Classical Crossover Album for the CD production " Paquito D'Rivera - The Clarinetist"
Discography
year | Art | title | Performers |
1991 | CD | Bath water | Tango Five |
1993 | CD | Purple cow | Tango 5 |
1994 | CD | Tango Five live | Tango Five |
1996 | CD | The 5th man | Tango Five |
1998 | CD | Chicken Madagascar | Tango Five |
1998 | CD | Obsecion | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet; Veit Hübner, bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano) |
1998 | CD | New York Stories | Richie Beirach, piano; Gregor Huebner, violin; Richard Brice, viola; Philharmonia Virtuosi New York; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2000 | CD | Tango Five plays like Waldi | Tango Five |
2000 | CD | Symphonic Tango Night | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Marga Mitchell, vocals; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet & conductor; Veit Hübner, bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano); Stuttgart Philharmonic |
2001 | CD | Amando in Buenos Aires | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Marga Mitchell, vocals; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet; Veit Hübner, bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano) |
2001 | CD | Kakyoku |
Fumio Yasuda , piano; Ernst Reijseger , cello; European Art Orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2001 | CD | Paquito D'Rivera - The Clarinetist | Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet; GermanPops Orchestra, European Art Orchestra, conductors: Pablo Zinger, Bernd Ruf |
2003 | CD | Go for gold | Tango Five |
2004 | CD | europique music | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet; Veit Hübner, bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano) |
2004 | CD / DVD | Pure classic - Live at Schalke 2004 | Pure; Fools garden; Heinz Rudolf Kunze ; German Pops Orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2004 | CD | In the depths of time | Ulrich Schlumberger, accordion; Krassimira Krasteva, cello; Stuttgart Philharmonic; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2005 | CD | Heavenly Blue | Fumio Yasuda, piano; Teodoro Anzellotti , accordion; Chamber Orchestra Basel ; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2006 | DVD | Best of Tango Five | Tango Five |
2006 | CD | Las Vegas Rhapsody |
Theo Bleckmann , vocals; Chamber Orchestra Basel; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2007 | DVD | Pur & Friends - Live on Schalke 2007 | Pure; Christina Stürmer ; John Miles; GermanPops Orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2007 | CD | Change of pace |
Barbara Dennerlein , organ; Peter Lehel , saxophone; Daniel Messina, drums; State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2007 | CD | Anna Margareta - The Buxtehude Musical | Ensemble, band and orchestra of the Lübeck University of Music; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2008 | CD |
Music in Germany 1950–2000 , new music in jazz |
Richie Beirach , piano; Gregor Huebner, violin; Philharmonia Virtuosi New York, Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2009 | CD | Schweitzer - soundtrack | Staatskapelle Hall; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2010 | CD | Tango Tales - para vos y para mÍ | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Bernd Ruf, clarinet |
2010 | CD | African Symphony - Teme | Patrick Bebey, lamellophone , Hindewhu and vocals; Antje Birnbaum, recitation; Bernd Ruf, conductor and saxophone; GermanPops Orchestra |
2011 | CD | Klaus Doldinger Symphonic Project | Klaus Doldinger; Passport; State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
literature
- Bernd Ruf (Author): Miss Saigon. Article in Lübbe's musical guide . Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Verlag Gustav H. Lübbe GmbH & Co. May 1998.
- Bernd Ruf (Author): Phantom of the Opera. Article in Die Musikstunde 9/10 . Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Moritz Diesterweg GmbH & Co. 1997.
- Bernd Ruf (Author): Phantom of the Opera. Articles in music and teaching . Seelze: Friedrich Verlag GmbH & Co., Magazine No. 30, January 1995.
- Tango Five . Württemberg State Library 2005, ISBN 3-88282-061-6 .
Web links
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- Literature by and about Bernd Ruf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernd Ruf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- http://www.jazzpages.com/
- Portrait of Bernd Ruf (PDF; 613 kB) in the Scala magazine , Stuttgart 2/2001
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Call, Bernd |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and clarinetist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Offenburg |