Bruno Brun
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Yugoslavia
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n clarinetist and professor at the Academy of Music in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
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Education
He graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy in 1945 and continued his educationEducation
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in Paris
Paris
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.
Career and awards
As a soloist, Brun had performed throughout Yugoslavia as well as abroad. He also performed as a principal clarinetist with the Belgrade Philharmonic OrchestraBelgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra in Serbia, regularly considered as one of the finest in the country. Its home base is in Belgrade.- History :...
and Belgrade Opera
National Theatre in Belgrade
The National Theatre was founded in the latter half of the 19th century. It is located on Republic Square, in Belgrade, Serbia.The National Theatre was declared a Monument of Culture of Great Importance in 1983, and it is protected by the Republic of Serbia....
.
He was one of the founders of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia
Association of Musical Artists of Serbia
The Association of Musical Artists of Serbia is an association which gathers together musicians from Serbia who dedicated themselves to performing actively classical music....
and its vice-president, and the secretary
Secretary
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of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
The Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra is an orchestra in Serbia, regularly considered as one of the finest in the country. Its home base is in Belgrade.- History :...
.
He was awarded "7 July" Prize (1969), the highest state
Sovereign state
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prize for the art
Art
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s, as well as Decoration of Work.
In 1973 he was a jury member at the ARD International Music Competition
ARD International Music Competition
The ARD International Music Competition is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is held once a year in Munich.-History:...
in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, along with Heinrich Sutermeister
Heinrich Sutermeister
Heinrich Sutermeister was a Swiss opera composer.-Life and career:During the early 1930s he was a student at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich where Carl Orff was his teacher and Orff remained a powerful influence on his music. Returning to Switzerland in the mid 1930s, he devoted his life to...
(Switzerland
Switzerland
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), Günter Bialas
Günter Bialas
-Life:Bialas was born in Bielschowitz in Prussian Silesia. The adolescent Bialas received lessons in piano and music theory from Fritz Lubrich, a former student of Max Reger, in Kattowitz between 1922 and 1925...
(Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
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), Ulysse Delécluse (France
France
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), David Glazer (United States
United States
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), Robert Gugolz (Switzerland), Rudolf Jettel (Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
), Jost Michaels (Federal Republic of Germany), Gerd Starke (Federal Republic of Germany).
In 1977 he was a jury member at the Munich Competition, along with Hans-Peter Schmitz (Germany), Eduard Brunner
Eduard Brunner
Eduard Brunner is a classical clarinetist. He began his musical education in Basel , where he was born, continuing his studies at the Paris Conservatoire with Louis Cahuzac...
(Switzerland), Hans Deinzer
Hans Deinzer
Hans Deinzer is a clarinetist and clarinet teacher. Now retired, he taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover for thirty years, and retired in 1996...
(Federal Republic of Germany), Guy Deplus
Guy Deplus
Guy Deplus is a French clarinetist.Deplus studied clarinet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and received Premiers Prix in clarinet and chamber music. He was a professor of clarinet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and is now retired. He taught...
(France), Dieter Klōcker
Dieter Klöcker
Dieter Klöcker was a German clarinetist known for rediscovering many forgotten masters of the 18th century...
(Federal Republic of Germany), Victor Petrov (U.S.S.R.) and Heinrich Sutermeister (Switzerland).
Teaching career
Bruno Brun was a professorProfessor
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of clarinet
Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
at the Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
Music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
Academy
Academy
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from 1945 to 1975 and a Chancellor
Chancellor
Chancellor is the title of various official positions in the governments of many nations. The original chancellors were the Cancellarii of Roman courts of justice—ushers who sat at the cancelli or lattice work screens of a basilica or law court, which separated the judge and counsel from the...
of the University of Arts in Belgrade
University of Arts in Belgrade
The University of Arts in Belgrade is a public university in Belgrade, founded in 1957 as the Academy of Arts to unite four academies...
(1965–1971). His most famous student
Student
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s include Milenko Stefanović
Milenko Stefanovic
Milenko Stefanović is the most famous Serbian and Yugoslav clarinetist: a prizewinner in the international competitions in Moscow, Munich, Geneva and Prague, soloist who has achieved significant international career, long-time principal clarinetist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and...
, Ernest Ačkun
Ernest Ackun
Ernest Ačkun was a Yugoslav / Slovenian clarinetist.-Early life:Ernest Ačkun was born in Hrastnik, Slovenia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia....
, Ante Grgin
Ante Grgin
Ante Grgin is a Serbian clarinetist and composer.-Education:Grgin started his early training at the School of Music in Split...
and Nikola Srdić
Nikola Srdić
Nikola Srdić is a Serbian clarinetist and Professor of Clarinet at the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts, Serbia and University of Banja Luka Academy of Arts, Bosnia and Herzegovina.-References:*, Retrieved on July 17, 2009...
(all of them were or are principal clarinetists and university
University
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professor
Professor
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s). Brun wrote several textbook
Textbook
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s for clarinet students.
External links
- Bruno Brun as a Chancellor of the University of Arts in Belgrade
- Faculty of Music in Belgrade
- Association of Musical Artists of Serbia
- Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
- Brun's Four Miniatures (the score http://www.umbps.org.rs/bruno%20brun/piano%20part.zip and clarinet part http://www.umbps.org.rs/bruno%20brun/clarinet%20part.zip) free for download from the Association of Music and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia website
- Brun's Four Miniatures (complete score http://www.music-competition.co.rs/2012/brun-piano.zip and clarinet part http://www.music-competition.co.rs/2012/brun-violin.zip) free for download from the website of the International Jeunesses Musicales CompetitionJeunesses MusicalesJeunesses Musicales International is the largest youth music NGO in the world, created in Brussels, Belgium in 1945 with the mission to "enable young people to develop through music across all boundaries"...
, Retrieved on July 18, 2011 - Google Book Search on Bruno Brun