Background

Siglind Bruhn was born on October 11, 1951, in Hamburg, Germany, to Ernst Bruhn, and Leonore Kieberger Bruhn.

Education

Siglind Bruhn was a student in the piano class of Professor Eckart Besch at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She completed her studies in the master class of Vladimir Horbowski at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. In 1976, she received a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Munich University. She also received a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

Career

From 1975 to 1976, Bruhn was a piano teacher at Music School in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, and then, from 1977 to 1978, she was also a piano teacher at Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland. From 1978 to 1982, she was a music director at Community Music School in Unterhaching, Germany.

From 1984 to 1987, Bruhn was a founding director at Pianisten-Akademie in Ansbach, Germany and then at the University of Hong Kong, in Hong Kong, as a director of studies for Program in Piano Performance Pedagogy from 1987 to 1993. In 1997, she was a visiting scholar in German literature and music at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Bruhn was also a visiting professor at Central Conservatory, in Beijing, China.

Currently, Bruhn works as music analyst, musicologist, and concert pianist; visiting artist throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Central America, and the United States. During her first sabbatical (1993–1994), which she spent at the University of Michigan, USA, she was invited to join the University's Institute for the Humanities, where she is currently a Life Research Associate for Music and Modern Literature, Music in Interdisciplinary Dialogue.

Achievements

• Siglind Bruhn is known for her contributions to scholarly journals. She also was an editor of special issues, Symmetry: Culture and Science, 1996, and American Journal of Semiotics, 1998.

Works

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  • Die musikalische Darstellung psychologischer Wirklichkeit in Alban Bergs «Wozzeck»

    (This interdisciplinary work, which is based on music anal...)

    1986
  • Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting

    (With increasing frequency, composers of instrumental musi...)

    2000
  • Saints in the Limelight: Representations of the Religious Quest on the Post-1945

    (In the small list of scholarly works on music after World...)

    2003
  • The Temptation of Paul Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler As a Spiritual Testimony

    (This ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of Paul Hind...)

    1998
  • J. S. Bach's Well-tempered clavier: in-depth analysis and interpretation

    (This comprehensive work book on Bach's Well-tempered Clav...)

    1993
  • Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music: The Extra-Musical Subtext in Piano Works

    (In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand ...)

    1997
  • Die Kunst musikalischer Gestaltung am Klavier: Gestaltungskriterien und Gestaltungsmittel in Bach'scher und klassischer Klaviermusik 1981
  • Guidelines to Piano Interpretations 1989
  • Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music 1998
  • Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love 1998

Membership

Bruhn is a member of executive board of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry and a member of executive board of the International Interdisciplinary Network on Religious Experiences in the Arts.

Interests

• Reading

• Sport & Clubs

  hiking and biking, contra-dancing

Connections

Bruhn is married Gerhold Becker, a philosopher of religion.

Father:

Ernst Bruhn

Mother:

Leonore Kieberger Bruhn

husband:

Gerhold Becker