Bernd Ruf
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Bernd Ruf (born 27 September 1964 in Offenburg) is a German conductor and clarinettist. In 2004, Ruf was appointed a new professorship in popular music, jazz, and world music at the Lübeck University of Music.
Life and works
Bernd Ruf grew up in
As a freelance director, he developed the Crossover Symphony series: orchestral programs with African, Asian, and Latin American musicians in cooperation with jazz and rock musicians. He has conducted several premieres in Stuttgart with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and in New York with the German-American Chamber Orchestra for composer and violinist Gregor Hübner. He has appeared as a guest with SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover, and the Bochumer Symphoniker.
Ruf is a guest conductor with the Staatskapelle Halle, the Jenaer Philharmonie, and the Württembergische Philharmonie
As a clarinettist he draws on influences from
The cooperation between Tango Five and bandoneonist Raul Jaurena began in 1998 with the album Obsecion. Appearances at tango festivals in Montevideo and Buenos Aires followed. One year later Bernd Ruf wrote and conducted his first Crossover Symphony for the ORF Radio-Symphonie Orchester of Vienna: Latin Symphony in which Jaurena gave his debut performance with a European orchestra as bandoneon soloist. Other tours followed, the Symphonic Tango Night with the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra (de) and the tango evening 'Amando a Buenos Aires', which was performed for several weeks in Stuttgart's Friedrichsbau. Furthermore, Bernd Ruf and Raul Jaurena have performed as a duo under the name JAURENA RUF Project since 2007.
Since 2004 Ruf has headed the field of popular music, jazz, and world music at the Lübeck Academy of Music, of which he became vice president in May 2011. There he developed the 'Lübeck model', in which jazz and pop are not taught as an independent degree course, but rather as an integral component of classical degree courses. During the 2006 winter semester he temporarily took over the running of the Institute of School Music; since the 2008 winter semester he is now acting head of this institute.
Awards and honors
- 1991: Ravensburger Kupferle (cabaret award) for Tango Five
- 1992: Kleinkunstpreis Baden-Württemberg (3rd place) for Tango Five
- 1995: Scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation
- 1999: Scholarship from Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
- 2002: Grammy nomination as a conductor in the Best Classical Crossover Album category for the album Paquito D'Rivera – The Clarinettist
Discography
Year | Format | Title | Artist |
1991 | CD | Badewasser | Tango Five |
1993 | CD | Lila Kuh | Tango 5 |
1994 | CD | Tango Five live | Tango Five |
1996 | CD | Der 5. Mann | Tango Five |
1998 | CD | Huhn Madagaskar | Tango Five |
1998 | CD | Obsecion | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet; Veit Hübner, double bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano) |
1998 | CD | New York Stories | Richie Beirach, piano; Gregor Hübner, violin; Richard Brice, viola; Philharmonia Virtuosi New York; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2000 | CD | Tango Five spielt wie Waldi | Tango Five |
2000 | CD | Symphonic Tango Night | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Marga Mitchell, vocals; Tango Five
(Bernd Ruf, clarinet & conductor; Veit Hübner, double bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano); Stuttgarter Philharmoniker |
2001 | CD | Amando a Buenos Aires | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Marga Mitchell, vocals; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet; Veit Hübner, double bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano) |
2001 | CD | Kakyoku | Fumio Yasuda, piano; Ernst Reijseger, cello; European Art Orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2001 | CD | Paquito D'Rivera - The Clarinetist | Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet; GermanPops Orchestra, European Art Orchestra, conductor: Pablo Zinger, Bernd Ruf |
2003 | CD | Go For Gold | Tango Five |
2004 | CD | europique music | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Tango Five (Bernd Ruf, clarinet; Veit Hübner, double bass; Gregor Hübner, violin; Karl Albrecht Fischer, piano) |
2004 | CD / DVD | Pur Klassisch - Live auf Schalke 2004 | Pur; Fools Garden; Heinz Rudolf Kunze; German Pops Orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2004 | CD | In die Tiefe der Zeit | Ulrich Schlumberger, accordion; Krassimira Krasteva, cello; Stuttgarter Philharmoniker; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2005 | CD | Heavenly Blue | Fumio Yasuda, piano; Teodoro Anzellotti, accordion; Kammerorchester Basel; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2006 | DVD | Best of Tango Five | Tango Five |
2006 | CD | Las Vegas Rhapsody | Theo Bleckmann, vocals; Kammerorchester Basel; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2007 | DVD | Pur & Friends - Live Auf Schalke 2007 | Pur; Christina Stürmer; John Miles; GermanPops Orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2007 | CD | Change of Pace | Barbara Dennerlein, organ; Peter Lehel, saxophone; Daniel Messina, drums; Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2007 | CD | Anna Margareta - Das Buxtehude-Musical | Lübeck Academy of Music ensemble, band and orchestra; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2008 | CD | Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000, Neue Musik im Jazz |
Richie Beirach, piano; Gregor Hübner, violin; Philharmonia Virtuosi New York, Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2009 | CD | Schweitzer - Soundtrack | Staatskapelle Halle; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
2010 | CD | Tango Tales – para vos y para mÍ | Raul Jaurena, bandoneon; Bernd Ruf, clarinet |
2010 | CD | African Symphony – Teme | Patrick Bebey, African instruments and voices; Antje Birnbaum, recitation; Bernd Ruf, conductor and saxophone; GermanPops Orchestra |
2011 | CD | Klaus Doldinger Symphonic Project | Klaus Doldinger; Passport; Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz; Bernd Ruf, conductor |
See also
References
- Ruf, Bernd. Miss Saigon in Lübbes Musical-Führer, Bergisch-Gladbach, Bastei-Verlag Gustav H. Lübbe GmbH & Co., May 1998.
- Ruf, Bernd. Phantom of the Opera in Die Musikstunde 9/10, Frankfurt am Main, Verlag Moritz Diesterweg GmbH & Co., 1997.
- Ruf, Bernd. Phantom of the Opera in Musik und Unterricht, Seelze, Friedrich Verlag GmbH& Co., magazine no. 30, January 1995.
- Tango Five. Württembergische Landesbibliothek 2005, ISBN 3-88282-061-6
Sources
- Literature by and about Bernd Ruf in the German National Library catalogue
- Jazzpages.com
- Portrait about Bernd Ruf in the magazine Scala, Stuttgart 2 / 2001