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\u201cThis is one of the best CD recordings of the year \u2013 perhaps of the decade [\u2026]. Here we encounter the closest we have witnessed [\u2026] to a new Casals.\u201d<\/em> Early Music Review on the CD recording of J.S. Bach\u2019s 6 Suites for Solo Cello<\/p>\n\u201cPeter Bruns does what he does best on his Tononi cello from 1730: he declaims, just like Pablo Casals, who also used to own the instrument. Peter Bruns once confirmed the closeness to Casals, saying: \u2018I also try to speak with the instrument.”<\/em> Maja Ellmenreich in Deutschlandradio Cologne<\/p>\n The cellist Peter Bruns has established an excellent reputation in the international music world as one of Germany\u2019s leading cellists and cello teachers. Peter Bruns has performed as soloist and chamber musician in renowned concert halls throughout all continents, including the Berliner Philharmonie, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, concert halls in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, in the Semperoper Dresden, in the Leipziger Gewandhaus as well as at the most important festivals including the Kuhmo, Bergen, Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Seoul Spring Festival and Gidon Kremer\u2019s Lockenhaus festival. His fascination with the ancient language of music and the instrumentation of the various stylistic periods has led to close collaboration with renowned orchestras in this field, in particular with the \u201cAkademie f\u00fcr Alte Musik\u201d Berlin, with whom Peter Bruns has played for CD productions, concerts and festivals (Bergen, Br\u00fcgge, Berlin, Regensburg, K\u00f6then).<\/p>\n From 1993\u20102000, Peter Bruns was Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. Developing a career also as a conductor, Peter Bruns is Artistic Director of the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig since 2014, and performs regularly in its own concert series in the Gewandhaus Leipzig as well as on tours.<\/p>\n Peter Bruns has recorded a series of award winning CDs including Brahms\u2019s Cello Sonatas, Bach\u2019s Six Suites for Cello Solo, the works of Gabriel Faur\u00e9, Ernest Bloch, Charles Koechlin and Robert Schumann, a recording of a Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert which won the Cannes Classical Award for \u201cBest CD of the Year\u201d, Antonin Dvorak\u2019s works for cello and orchestra with the Staatskapelle Dresden and his highly acclaimed recordings of Haydn\u2019s, Schumann\u2019s and Volkmann\u2019s Cello Concertos with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig. 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Born in Berlin, he studied with Professor Peter Vogler at Berlin\u2019s \u201cHanns Eisler\u201d Academy of Music.<\/p>\n
The artist has also performed as soloist with many major orchestras and has toured with the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as with the RAI, MDR and Berlin symphony orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eliahu Inbal, Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Prick, Marc Albrecht and Bruno Weil.<\/p>\n
From 1998 to 2005, he was cello Professor at the Dresden Academy of Music and, since 2005, has held the same position at the Academy of Music in Leipzig.
Master classes led Peter Bruns to many German cities as well as to London, New York, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Australia.<\/p>\n
The production \u201e\u201eImages and Mirrors\u201c (GENUIN classics) with Friedrich Gulda\u2018s concerto for cello und wind orchestra was followed by the CD \u201eCosmopolitan Mendelssohn\u201c (Klanglogo – Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig) with pieces by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Volkmann, Donizetti und Gade.
The recently (2020) released CD set \u201eBeethoven \u2010 Most Complete! 1\u20103\u201c with pianist Annegret Kuttner promises to be the most complete of all complete recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven works for cello and piano. In celebration of the 250th birthday of the musical revolutionary from Bonn, the two artists bring together arrangements by Beethoven himself and by composers from his context, expanding his known repertoire of five cello sonatas and three sets of variations with another three sonatas and making their recording MOST COMPLETE.<\/p>\n