Robert Schumann Hochschule

The Robert -Schumann-Hochschule (RSH ) is a college of music in Düsseldorf's Golzheim. More than 900 students from over 40 countries are trained in the North Rhine - Westphalian capital. The curriculum ranges from the study programs "Music " and " Music Education " to the artistic- technical " sound and image ", which combines a technical and scientific education at the University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf with a music degree.

Focus

An accent is the Robert -Schumann-Hochschule in their opera school. At least once a year students show off their skills in a staged performance, the College works closely with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Other priorities are the orchestral training and the Protestant and the Catholic church music. In addition, in Dusseldorf study the military musicians of the Bundeswehr.

A special role is played by the Institute For Music And Media, founded in 2004 (sic), which focuses on research and artistic development projects. The studies at the Institute is divided into the major fields of study classical music recording, media composition, music computer science, music production, music and audio-visual production, music and media management, music and text and visual music.

The university has established its own training center for the gifted young in 2008. " Schumann junior" targets exceptionally talented students aged 10 to 17 years. In addition, the RSH maintains a large symphony orchestras, several different ensembles and choirs. During the semester, RSH organizes numerous lectures and training evenings in the university's own concert hall, the Partika hall.

History

The Robert Schumann University is relatively young as an independent music college. Its beginnings reach back further, however. The foundation stone for today's Robert -Schumann-Hochschule in 1935 put the music director Hugo Balzer. He had the idea of ​​three large private music schools, which to merge the oldest, the Buths - Neitzel Conservatory, named after its founders Julius Buth and Otto Neitzel, dates from the year 1902 to a conservatory. The Institute should be " Robert Schumann Conservatory ". In this way, the not always well treated in Dusseldorf composers should be considered. The goal Balzers was to ensure the expansion of the conservatory it to carry out the training as practical as possible. Therefore, the emphasis was placed on the training of full berufseinmündende students. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, the Conservatory has developed very well. During the war, it remained closed and only opened its doors in 1945 on the island road. It was now under the management of the Düsseldorf musician Joseph Neyses, who extended it until his retirement in 1964 to a respected also in the entire region training center. So it was, inter alia, to establish a department of Catholic Church Music and in 1950 to take over the school sound engineer Friedrich Trautwein, to the present-day study of sound and image technology goes back ultimately. The Conservatory grew steadily. Under the direction of Jürg Baur the Conservatory moved into premises at Homberger Straße ( "Villa Engelhardt " ) and the Fischer Road. A new building on Fisherman Road 110 was prepared by him. It was opened in 1975 by Helmut Kirch Meyer, who headed the Conservatory from 1972.

With the State Treaty of 21 December 1972, the Robert Schumann Conservatory received the rank of a conservatoire and was called for April 19, 1973 " Robert Schumann Institute of the University of Music Rhineland ". At the same time the sponsorship went from the city to the country over. Since then, the " Robert Schumann Institute " (RSI ) aspiring musicians prepared immediately prior to their profession. The lay training did not take place. Under the new ownership the Institute by the Evangelical Lutheran Church Music School was affiliated to the Graf- Recke -Straße as a separate department at the same time. By a treaty of 1976, the RSI in collaboration with the Music Education Corps Hilden overall artistic responsibility for the training of all German Bundeswehr musicians. In 1984, additional rooms in the building of the University of Applied Sciences, Georg -Glock -Str. 15, based.

A new chapter was opened with the adoption of the Law on art colleges in the country North Rhine-Westphalia on 20 October 1987. Over several years, the parliament was discussing the reorganization of higher education and had come to the conclusion that " Robert Schumann Institute ", then site- based to become independent, the second largest German Music Academy. Dusseldorf was equipped with all the rights of an independent university. Furthermore, in 1987 he began collecting music didactic museum, which is run as a central operating unit since 1980. In 1989, the college the right to award doctorates. In the 1990s, the Institute of Harmony and Counterpoint (1990 ), and the Musicological Institute (1994 ) were founded.

Structure

  • Institute of Musicology
  • Institute of Composition and Music Theory
  • Institute of Sacred Music

Teacher

  • Gabor Antalffy (Piano, Harpsichord)
  • Valérie Bak (vocals )
  • Ida Bieler (violin)
  • Alberte Brun (piano)
  • Herbert Callhoff (music theory, composition )
  • Joaquín Clerch (classical guitar)
  • Michael Denhoff (chamber music)
  • Bojidar Dimov (composition)
  • Xaver Fischer (piano)
  • Andreas Grimm ( media composition)
  • Volker Hempfling
  • Konrad Jarnot (vocals )
  • Tobias Koch (piano)
  • Detmar Kurig (double bass)
  • Jürgen Kussmaul ( Viola )
  • Thomas Leander (piano)
  • Werner Lechte (vocal, choral conducting )
  • Markus Lenzing ( trombone)
  • David Levine (piano)
  • Hans -Dieter Möller (organ)
  • Christiane Oelze (vocals )
  • Heinz Bernhard Orlinski (organ)
  • Joachim Pöltl ( Horn )
  • Gotthard Popp ( cello)
  • Almut Rossler (organ)
  • Wolfgang Rüdiger ( Music Education and Instrumental Teaching )
  • Peter -Christoph Runge (vocals )
  • Hans -Dieter Saretzki (vocals )
  • Hartmut Schmidt ( choral conducting )
  • Heike Sperling ( Digital Visual Media )
  • Roberto Szidon (piano)
  • Manfred Trojahn (composition)
  • Sándor Végh (violin)
  • Manfred Waffender ( Media Dramaturgy )
  • Woelfel Martin (vocals )
  • Fabiana Trani (harp)

Former teacher

  • Wolfgang Bretschneider ( liturgy and church music )
  • Klaus Karcher (oboe)
  • Heinrich Weber, organ and theory

Known graduates

  • Hörður Áskelsson ( b. 1953 ), Icelandic organist and choirmaster
  • Martin Bambauer (* 1970), German church musician
  • Karl Bartos ( born 1952 ), German musician and former band member of the band Kraftwerk
  • Björn Bobach (* 1973), German opera singer
  • Berthold Botzet (* 1961), German organist and Director of Music
  • Gerhard Croll (* 1927), German -Austrian musicologist
  • Oscar van Dillen (born 1958 ), Dutch composer
  • Klaus Doldinger (* 1936), German musician
  • Andreas Ehret (born 1967 ), German pianist
  • Stefan Engels ( b. 1967 ), German organist
  • Hermin Esser (1928-2009), German opera singer
  • Helmut Freitag (* 1960), German church musician
  • Manuel Gera ( * 1963), German church musician
  • Roland Härdtner (born 1964 ), German marimba and orchestra
  • Fritz Hilpert, German musician and member of the band Kraftwerk
  • Michael Hoppe (born 1966 ), organist and professor
  • Ralf Hütter ( born 1946 ), German musician, cyclist, a founding member of the band Kraftwerk
  • Helmut Kickton (* 1956), German church musician
  • Reinhard Kluth (* 1950), German church musician
  • Tobias Koch ( born 1968 ), German pianist
  • Dieter Kreidler (* 1943), German guitarist
  • Heinz Lengersdorf (* 1966), German classical pianist
  • Ulrich Leykam (* 1948), German church musician
  • Johannes Quack (* 1959), German organist and church musician
  • John Quint (* 1963), German musicologist and composer
  • Walter Ratzek (* 1960), German conductor, director of the Army Music Corps
  • Fazil Say (born 1970 ), Turkish pianist and composer
  • Werner Schepp (* 1958), German church musician
  • Andreas Schmidt ( * 1960 ), German bass-baritone
  • Henning Schmitz, German musician and member of the band Kraftwerk
  • Wolfgang soaps ( * 1956 ), German organist
  • Florian Schneider- Esleben (* 1947), German musician, founding member of the band Kraftwerk
  • Vera Schoenberg (* 1973), German opera singer
  • Alexander Shelley ( born 1979 ), British conductor and cellist
  • Andreas Sieling, German organist and musicologist
  • Jürgen Sonnentheil (* 1961), German church musician
  • Bertram Weigel (1950-1976), German artist and musician
  • Bernd Wiese (b. 1938), German composer and music educator
  • Tungsten Wittekind, German singer and church musician
  • Martin Wenning ( * 1962), German church musician and composer
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