{{Short description|German cellist and university professor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Peter Bruns | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}} | birth_place = Berlin, Germany | occupation = Cellist, Professor | instrument = Cello | genre = Classical | years_active = 1980s–present | associated_acts = Staatskapelle Dresden, Dresden Piano Trio, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig | website = }}
'''Peter Bruns''' (born 1963) is a German cellist and university professor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Bruns-Peter.htm|title = Peter Bruns (Cello) - Short Biography}}</ref>
== Biography == Bruns was born in Berlin.<ref name="Saitenspiel Kammermusik in der Historischen Stadthalle Wuppertal 2015" /> At the age of nine he began to play cello. After his studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"<ref name="Saitenspiel Kammermusik in der Historischen Stadthalle Wuppertal 2015" /> with Peter Vogler Bruns became the first solo cellist at the Staatskapelle Dresden. Bruns has performed at solo concerts around the world, including the Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Dresden Semperoper, New York Carnegie Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Tokyo and Hong Kong. He has worked with major orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin.
In 1990 Bruns founded the Dresden Piano Trio together with Kai Vogler<ref name="index">{{cite web | title=Bio | website=Kai Vogler | url=http://www.kaivogler.de/bio.htm | language=de | access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> and Roglit Ishay.<ref name="Roglit Ishay 2016">{{cite web | title=About Me | website=Roglit Ishay | date=22 May 2016 | url=https://www.roglitishay.com/about-roglit-ishay/ | access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> The ensemble performed at concerts all over Europe. From 1993 to 2000 Bruns was one of the artistic directors of the {{Ill|Moritzburg Festival|de}}. Between 1998 and 2005 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber and since 2005 at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.<ref name="Saitenspiel Kammermusik in der Historischen Stadthalle Wuppertal 2015">{{cite web | title=Peter Bruns | website=Saitenspiel – Kammermusik in der Historischen Stadthalle Wuppertal | date=16 June 2015 | url=https://saitenspiele.eu/peter-bruns/ | language=de | access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb 2018">{{cite web | title=Bruns, Prof. Peter | website=Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb | date=3 December 2018 | url=https://www.fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de/bruns-prof-peter/ | language=de | access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> Bruns has been principal guest conductor of the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig<ref name="Peter Bruns en">{{cite web | title="Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig" | website=Peter Bruns en | url=https://www.peterbruns.de/index.php/mendelssohn-chamber-orchestra-leipzig.html | access-date=15 January 2021 | archive-date=28 September 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928082908/https://www.peterbruns.de/index.php/mendelssohn-chamber-orchestra-leipzig.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> since 2006.
There are numerous radio and CD recordings of Bruns, including complete recordings of the six Bach's suites, the Brahms' sonatas, the works of Gabriel Fauré and Robert Schumann. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's concerto in A minor,<ref name="IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download">{{cite web | title=Cello Concerto in A minor, H.432 (Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel) | website=IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download | url=https://imslp.org/wiki/Cello_Concerto_in_A_minor,_H.432_(Bach,_Carl_Philipp_Emanuel) | access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> recorded together with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin was awarded the Cannes Classical Award "Best CD of the Year" in 2001. The cellist produced recordings together with other renowned orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester and the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig.
Bruns plays on a Tononi cello dated 1730, the "Ex Pablo Casals".<ref name="Montforter Zwischentöne 2013">{{cite web | title=Peter Bruns – Sterben | website=Montforter Zwischentöne | date=26 May 2013 | url=https://www.montforter-zwischentoene.at/sterben/interpreten/peter-bruns/ | language=de | access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref>
== Discography == * Charles-Marie Widor: Suite Op. 21. Hänssler Classic CD 98.294 * Charles Koechlin: Chansons bretonnes Op. 115. Hänssler Classic CD 98.258 * Joseph Haydn / Edisson Denissow: cello concertos. Hänssler Classic CD 98.477 * Antonín Dvořák / Josef Suk: Works for cello and orchestra. Hänssler Classic CD 98.478 * Franz Schubert / Robert Schumann: Works for cello & piano. Hänssler Classic CD 98.464 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Concerto in A-minor. Harmonia Mundi France CD: HMC 901711 * Ernest Bloch: Works for cello. Opus 111 OPS 30–232 * Gabriel Fauré: Complete works for Cello and Piano. Opus 111 OPS 30–242 * Johann Sebastian Bach: 6 Suites for Cello solo. Opus 111 OPS 30-176/77<ref name="Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb 2018"/> * Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano No.1 in E minor Opus. 38, Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F major op. 99. Opus 111 OPS 30–144 * Max Bruch / Dmitri Shostakovich: Kol Nidrei Op. 47; Concerto for cello and orchestra No.2 Opus 126. Berlin Classics 0120012BC
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== External links == * {{DNB portal|129261823|NAME=Peter Bruns}} * [http://www.peterbruns.de Offizielle Homepage] * [http://www.hmt-leipzig.de/index.php?id=502,0,0,1,0,0&ma_id=1335 Peter Bruns at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig] * {{Discogs artist}}
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