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Peter Bruns (1963 in Berlin ) is a German cellist and university professor.
At the age of nine, Peter Bruns began playing the cello . After his studies at the Berlin Academy of Music "Hanns Eisler" with Peter Vogler became Bruns First Concertmaster Violoncello at the Staatskapelle Dresden .
The cellist has performed at solo concerts around the world, including the Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals , the Budapest Spring Festival , the Berlin Philharmonic , the Dresden Semper Opera House , New York's Carnegie Hall , London's Wigmore Hall , and Tokyo and Hong Kong. He collaborated with major orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra .
In 1990 Peter Bruns founded the Dresden Piano Trio together with Kai Vogler and Roglit Ishay . The ensemble performed at concerts throughout Europe. From 1993 to 2000 Bruns was one of the artistic directors of the Moritzburg Festival . Between 1998 and 2005 he was a professor at the Academy of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden and since 2005 at the College of Music and Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig. Bruns is since 2006 the first guest conductor of the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra Leipzig .
There are numerous radio and CD recordings by Peter Bruns, including the complete recordings of the six Bach Suites, the Brahms Sonatas, the works of Gabriel Fauré and Robert Schumann . The recording of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Concerto in A minor, recorded together with the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin , was awarded the Cannes Classical Award "Best CD of the Year" in 2001. Together with other renowned orchestras, such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester and Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, the cellist produced recordings.
Bruns plays a Tononi cello from 1730, the "Ex Pablo Casals"
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