Peter Bruns (cellist)

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Peter Bruns (* 1963 in Berlin ) is a German cellist and university professor.

Life

Peter Bruns started playing the cello at the age of nine . After studying at the “Hanns Eisler” Academy of Music in Berlin with Peter Vogler, Bruns became principal cellist with the Staatskapelle Dresden .

The cellist has performed at solo concerts around the world, including at the Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals , the Budapest Spring Festival , the Berlin Philharmonie , the Dresden Semperoper , New York Carnegie Hall , London Wigmore Hall , and Tokyo and Hong Kong. He worked with major orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra .

In 1990 Peter Bruns founded the Dresden Piano Trio together with Kai Vogler and Roglit Ishay . The ensemble has performed at concerts across Europe. From 1993 to 2000 Bruns was one of the artistic directors of the Moritzburg Festival . Between 1998 and 2005 he was professor at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden and since 2005 at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. Bruns has been the first guest conductor with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig since 2006 .

There are numerous radio and CD recordings by Peter Bruns, including complete recordings of the six Bach suites, the Brahms sonatas, the works of Gabriel Fauré and Robert Schumann . The recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Concerto in A minor, made together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin , won the 2001 Cannes Classical Award “Best CD of the Year”. Together with other renowned orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig, the cellist produced recordings.

Bruns plays a Tononi cello from 1730, the "Ex Pablo Casals".

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personal data
SURNAME Bruns, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cellist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin