Gerhard Voss (musician)
Gerhard Voss (* 1939 ) is a German violinist . From 1975 to 2005 he taught violin and chamber music at the Stuttgart University of Music. Voss played second violin in the Melos Quartet .
Life and artistic work
Gerhard Voss was a founding member of the Melos Quartet in 1965, which he left in 1993. He plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri .
From 1975 Gerhard Voss worked as a lecturer for string quartet playing and from 1980 to 2005 as professor for violin and chamber music at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
Together with his wife Brigitte Dürr-Voss, Gerhard Voss runs a music gallery in the farm buildings of the Mühlhausen moated castle .
honors and awards
- 1966: Winner of the Geneva International Music Competition with the Melos Quartet
- 1967: Winner of the Villa Lobos Competition in Rio de Janeiro with the Melos Quartet
- Bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
- Gerhard Voss: Seven years of the Mühlhausen Music Gallery, Würm: a personal report. In: Der Enzkreis Jahrbuch 7, July 1997, pages 109 to 113
- Gerhard Voss: Ten Years of the Mühlhausen Music Gallery, Würm: A personal report by Gerhard Voss. from musikgalerie-voss.de, accessed on December 13, 2002
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musikgalerie-voss.de: Photo Giovan Battista Rogeri. Retrieved February 6, 2002
- ↑ Simon Püschel: The Voss Music Gallery is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a chamber concert. In: Pforzheimer Zeitung, December 17, 2015
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| SURNAME | Voss, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German violinist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1939 |