Peter Bruns
Artistic direction
Born in:
Berlin
Current center of life:
Leipzig / Markkleeberg
Instrument:
Violoncello
Second, third or even fourth instrument:
Piano, Organ, (Recorder ????)
My career aspiration as a child:
I had many interests, could imagine many things.
This is the profession my parents envisioned for me:
I don’t know. Everything just turned out the way it was supposed to. My father was probably sad that none of his three sons followed in his footsteps and became a doctor.
Works or concert experiences that shaped me:
In the mid-1980s while studying: Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor on SFB Radio with John Eliot Gardiner, the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir. After that, I did everything stylistically differently than before.
Work with the greatest music-making pleasure (and why?):
Henri Dutilleux’s Cello Concerto “Tout un Monde Lointain…”. So demanding, but unheard by most and fantastic in its colours with the orchestra. Exciting because difficult, but insanely evocative and impressive.
I would like a work for my instrument by this composer (and why?):
Karol Szymanowski. There are such wonderfully colourful harmonies that I don’t know from anyone else. And can you imagine: He really didn’t write anything for cello.
I would get up in the middle of the night for that:
Observing animals.
Special / curious own concert experience:
“Quintet for violoncello and four companions for the dying” at the “Montforter Zwischentönen” 2016 in Feldkirch. Exciting, impressive and with potency for a change of mind regarding death.
My most valuable tip for the next generation of musicians:
Doctor is also a great profession! ????
That's what I wish for the future of the classical music scene:
Less video. (A pious wish…)
That's what I associate with Leipzig as a city of music:
Tradition, tradition, tradition. And when the burden becomes too great, fortunately there is no lack of new ideas in the city.