Bernd Ruf
Bernd Ruf ( born September 27, 1964 in Offenburg ) is a German conductor and clarinetist. He works primarily in the border range of classical, jazz, new music, rock and world music. 2004 Bernd Ruf was appointed professor at the newly established Chair of popular music, jazz and world music at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.
Life and work
Bernd reputation grew in Gengenbach Baden in a musical environment to classical and popular music. In his last two years at school, he attended school accompanying a two-year course in conducting. After graduation Bernd Ruf studied in Stuttgart and Frankfurt School Music, graduate music teacher, jazz and popular music, band and musicology. Bernd Ruf conducted after his Kapellmeister studies musicals (Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Dance of the Vampires, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King ), Dennis Russell Davies assisted with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and the Salzburg Festival and took over at the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra 1999 to 2004, the design and management of various youth concerts. As a freelance director, he developed the crossover Symphonies, special orchestra programs with African, Asian and Latin American musicians, jazz and rock musicians. For the composer and violinist Gregor Huebner, he conducted several world premieres in Stuttgart with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and in New York with the German - American Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared, among others the SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. In the Staatskapelle Halle, the Jena Philharmonic and the Württemberg Philharmonie Reutlingen Bernd Ruf is a regular guest conductor. In his orchestral crossover projects, he has worked 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 conducted the annual Open Air major event Bridges to the Classics. As Music Director conducts Bernd Ruf since 1999 GermanPops Orchestra and the European Art Orchestra. Both orchestras have made through their studio work an international reputation and regularly play classical, crossover, film, and pop productions for international record labels a. Bernd Ruf conducted various orchestras soundtracks for film, television and games ( Settlers, Anno, SpellForce, ParaWorld, BattleForge, Darksiders, House of the Lion ).
As a clarinetist he refers influences from playing styles of klezmer, jazz, South Eastern European folk music and classical music. Improvisation is a key element of his music. 1987 Bernd Ruf entered, founded two years earlier in Ravensburg Ensemble Tango Five, which since 1995 in the unchanged occupation Gregor Hübner ( violin), Veit Hübner (bass ), Karl Albrecht Fischer (piano) and Bernd Ruf ( clarinet) plays. Numerous tours have taken the ensemble in the USA, South America, Georgia, and Europe. Tango Five plays one hand scenic music - comedy programs, in which the four performers tell little stories with a variety of instruments and a cappella singing ironic musical style boundaries. On the other hand, plays Tango Five music that has its roots in South-Eastern European folk music, klezmer, gypsy, tango, classical and jazz.
The cooperation of Tango Five with the bandoneon player Raul Jaurena began in 1998 with the CD production Obsecion. This was followed by appearances at the Tango Festival in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. A year later, created and directed Bernd Ruf for the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna 's first " crossover Symphony ", which was "Latin Symphony " in the Jaurena his debut as bandoneon soloist at a European orchestra. There were other tour together, the "Symphonic Tango Night" with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the tango evening " Amando a Buenos Aires ", which was performed several weeks in Friedrichsbau Variety in Stuttgart. Under the Formation name Jaurena RUF Project play Bernd Ruf and Raul Jaurena since 2007 as a solid duo.
Since 2004 is Bernd Ruf the field of popular music, jazz and world music at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. There he developed the " Lübeck model " is not taught in the jazz and pop as an independent study course, but as an integral part acts in the classic studies into it. In the winter semester 2006, he took over as acting head of the Institute school music, since winter semester 2008 he has been Deputy Director. In May 2011, he assumed the office of vice president.