28 Notable alumni of
Freiburg Conservatory of Music
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Freiburg Conservatory of Music is 1672nd in the world, 571st in Europe, and 64th in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 28 notable alumni from Freiburg Conservatory of Music sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Fritz Wunderlich
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- opera singer
- Biography
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Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was a German lyric tenor, famed for his singing of the Mozart repertory and various lieder. He died in an accident aged 35.
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Wolfgang Rihm
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- composeressayistlibrettistuniversity teachermusicologist
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Wolfgang Rihm was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as "one of the most original and independent musical voices" there, composing over 500 works including several operas.
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Daishin Kashimoto
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- violinistconcertmaster
- Biography
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Daishin Kashimoto is a Japanese classical violinist. Since 2009, he has been the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Tabea Zimmermann
- Occupations
- violistuniversity teachermusic educator
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Tabea Zimmermann is a German violist who has performed internationally, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She has been artist in residence of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Zimmermann founded the Arcanto Quartet, a string quartet that performed until 2016. Several composers have written music for her, including György Ligeti (the Viola Sonata), and she has made her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto from the composer's sketches.
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Toshio Hosokawa
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- music educatorcomposer
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Toshio Hosokawa is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima, and instrumental music.
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Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Occupations
- university teachermusiciancellistmusic educator
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Jean-Guihen Queyras is a French cellist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on 11 March 1967, and moved with his parents to Algeria when he was 5 years old; the family moved to France 3 years later. He has been a professor at the Musikhochschule Freiburg since 2011 and artistic co-director of the Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence. He won the Glenn Gould Protégé Prize in Toronto in 2002.
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David Afkham
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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David Afkham is a German conductor.
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Christoph Wolff
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teachermusicologist
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Christoph Wolff is a German musicologist. He is best known for his works on the music, life, and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014.
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Ernst Horn
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Ernst Horn is a German musician who played a crucial part in founding the bands Deine Lakaien, Qntal and Helium Vola.
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Enjott Schneider
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- actormusic educatorfilm score composercomposeruniversity teacher
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Enjott Schneider is a German businessman, composer, musicologist, and music educator. He is best known as the chairman of the board of the German collecting society GEMA.
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Siegfried Köhler
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorconductoruniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Siegfried Köhler was a German conductor and composer of classical music. He worked as general music director of opera houses such as Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Royal Swedish Opera. Köhler conducted premieres of works by Hans Werner Henze and Volker David Kirchner, among others, and revived rarely performed operas. He also composed music for the stage and taught at universities of music in Cologne and Saarbrücken.
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Anja Bihlmaier
- Occupations
- music director
- Biography
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Anja Bihlmaier is a German conductor.
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Julio Medaglia
- Occupations
- composerconductor
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Júlio Medaglia is a Brazilian composer, arranger, and conductor. Born in São Paulo, he studied theory and conducting with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter. He continued his studies at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, and privately with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Sir John Barbirolli, with whom he worked as assistant conductor.
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Adam Taubitz
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- composerjazz musicianguitaristtrumpeterjazz guitarist
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Adam Georg Taubitz is a German jazz and classical musician. He is perhaps best known for his work with the Berlin Philharmonic Jazz Group, which he established in 1999, and with the Aura Quartett.
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Maria Bengtsson
- Occupations
- musicianopera singerperforming artist
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Maria Bengtsson is a Swedish operatic soprano, who has appeared in major opera houses in Europe. She is known for roles in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss.
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Eckart Altenmüller
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- psychologistphysicianmusicianuniversity teacherneurologist
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Eckart Altenmüller is a German physician and musician and one of the leading researchers in the field of neurophysiology and neuropsychology of musicians.
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Gamal Abdel-Rahim
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- composerpianistteacher
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Gamal Abdel-Rahim was a distinguished Egyptian classical music composer and composition professor.
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Katharina Treutler
- Occupations
- pianist
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Katharina Treutler is a German pianist.
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Hans-Ola Ericsson
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- composeruniversity teacherorganist
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Hans-Ola Ericsson is a Swedish organist, composer, pedagogue, and visual artist.
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Wolfgang Anheisser
- Occupations
- opera singer
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Wolfgang Anheisser was a German operatic baritone. He was the leading baritone at the Cologne Opera from 1964 until his tragic death on stage there ten years later, where he covered the major roles for his voice part. From 1968, he was simultaneously a member of the Berlin State Opera in East Berlin. He appeared internationally, taking part in a world premiere at the Salzburg Festival and singing throughout Europe and beyond.
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Giulio Castagnoli
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacher
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Giulio Castagnoli is an Italian composer.
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Reinhard Febel
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- composermusic educatoruniversity teachermusic theoristmusicologist
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Reinhard Febel is a German composer, notable for his operas. He is also a music theorist and a university professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and the Mozarteum.
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Michael Leuschner
- Occupations
- pianistuniversity teacher
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Michael Leuschner, Germany, is a German classical pianist and professor of piano at the University of Music (Hochschule für Musik) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
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Werner Jacob
- Occupations
- composeruniversity teacherorganist
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Werner Jacob was a German organist, composer and academic.
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James Erber
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- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- composer
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James Erber is a British composer of the New Complexity school.
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Mark Edwards
- Occupations
- harpsichordist
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Mark Edwards is a Canadian harpsichordist and organist from Toronto. He is first-prize winner of the 2012 Musica Antiqua Bruges International Harpsichord Competition and is assistant professor of harpsichord at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.
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Pavao Mašić
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- organistharpsichordist
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Pavao Mašić is a Croatian harpsichordist and organist.
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Kim Märkl
- Occupations
- composerwriter
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Kim Märkl is an American composer, writer and clarinetist.
