Bernd Ruf (conductor)

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Bernd Ruf (2008)

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

Discography

Bernd Ruf (2009) / Photographer: Béla Markó
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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Call, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German conductor and clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg