Gloria Bruni

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Gloria Bruni (* 1955 in Oschersleben as Brünhild Ulonska ) is a German singer (soprano), violinist and composer .

Life

Gloria Bruni is the daughter of a physicist and grew up with her sister in Hamburg . She received piano and violin lessons as a child and sang while she was still at school. In addition to studying dentistry with a doctorate , she also studied composition with Diether de la Motte and singing with Naan Pöld in Hamburg as well as in Munich and Milan .

Bruni worked as a violinist in the Hamburg “Camerata Accademica” and in the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and played on tours in the Carnegie Hall and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts .

As a singer she signed with Polydor and appeared at the Puccini Festival and at La Scala in Milan , with the London Mozart Players at the Dresden Semperoper and at the Leipzig Gewandhaus .

Bruni is married, has a daughter and lives in Hamburg.

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Bruni mainly composes for choir and vocal soloists. In her compositions she often uses elements of folk or sacred music and combines different musical genres .

Her Requiem a Roma was premiered in the Holy Year 2000 as a commissioned work by the Vatican in the Church of Sant'Ignazio and excerpts were also performed before Pope John Paul II . In 2008 the children's opera Pinocchio, composed by her, was premiered in the Laeiszhalle with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , followed by other performances of the work at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and at the Teatro Regio di Parma . The Musical The Thorn Birds ( " The Thorn Birds ") after the libretto by Colleen McCullough in 2009 by the Wales Theater Company premiered followed by tour of the UK. Further works are the fairy-tale mini-opera The Enchanted Pancake and Symphony No. 1 - Ring Parable (based on GE Lessing's Nathan the Wise ), which also premiered in the Laeiszhalle . This symphony was performed not only as a concert, but also as a ballet several times.

Discography

  • 1990: Moments , Polydor
  • 2001: Requiem a Roma , Arte Nova

Filmography

  • 2009: The Thorn Birds , video film, ZDF Enterprises

Awards

  • 1st Federal Prize of the State Association of Tonkünstler and Musicians as composer and interpreter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ portrait at requiemsurvey.org. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ Requiem a Roma on Gloria Bruni's website. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Vita Gloria Bruni on the website of H & S Verlag, Hartmann & Stauffacher, accessed on May 8, 2020
  4. ^ A b Elisabeth Richter: The story of a Hamburg dentist who wrote a Requiem and performed it in Rome: Gloria Bruni in Exzelsis Deo. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. November 10, 2000, accessed May 8, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Authors - Pinocchio Opera. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Classics: Gloria Bruni (born 1955): Requiem a Roma. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  7. ^ A b Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Gloria Bruni's "Pinocchio" is performed in Naples. February 20, 2013, accessed on May 8, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Pinocchio. In: Teatro Regio di Parma. Retrieved May 8, 2020 (it-IT).
  9. ↑ Details of Wales Theater Company on the Theater in Wales database. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Klaus Witzeling: There is music in the Freemasons. September 29, 2012, accessed on May 8, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bruni, Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulonska, Brünhild (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oschersleben