Singing is the origin of all music!

since the body itself is the instrument of the artist (who is the soul using the body!)
This is a very intimate "instrument", thus it is logical that the different singing schools are very "subjective" and everybody is very secure that HIS/HER teacher´s method is the best......

I had the opportunity to take private lessons from an italian "maestro" from Catania/Sicily/Italy in Milano, Renzo Maselli, in the years 1986 to 1989.
He made me understand that in any case a study of singing in Italy is recommendable since the origins of classical singing is here!
His favourite composer comes from Catania and is Vincenzo Bellini: He composed perfectly on the voice in the sense of "belcanto".

Do NOT miss to listen to Maria Callas CDs having the Italian text (and your english translation) right beside. From her divine text interpretation you can understand a lot about music and expression. Since I spoke Italian I understood the phenomenon Callas because I could match the sense of the text to the immense intensive interpretation of the Callas! See OperaDocs!!!

Back to the Docs: See section "DocPresentation"!

There are a whole bunch of professional singers among the SingingDocs:

• Petra Wolf-Perraudin
  an (ex) dentist but always a professional mezzosoprano singer!
  Now she is running an exclusive studio for physiological voice training see http://www.vocalitas-training.de
  She has produced a CompactDisc with Wolfgang Ellenberger which is on sale as a multi-medial eBook.
  
  

• Karmila Dudova a soprano who sang with the German Doctors Orchestra in 1999 in Munich as winner of a
  music doctors competition

• Haller & Schanbacher is a Duo with two dermatologists:
  
  Eberhard Haller (right) sings a deep bass voice and Ulrich Schanbacher (left) accompanies him.
  A pharmaceutical company has produced a CompactDisc with Schuberts Winterreise.
  www.aerztlichepraxis.de has published an article about these two (in German, pdf-file)!

• "MediSingers" was a singer quartett formed for the opening of the trade show MEDICA 1999
  and consisted of soprano, alto, tenor and bass.

• Pharmacist Patrick Simper
  
  
  
  a professional bass singing in different German theaters among them Wuerzburg who has real good humour!

• The Orthopedic Singing Quartett from the Medical University of Magdeburg/Germany has also produced a compact disc.
  Prof.Dr. H.Wolfram Neumann   
  Dr. C. Wolter
  Dr. M. Röpke
  Dr. Tobias Wollner, piano
  see more at ChoirDocs
  

• Dr.med. Walter Krick
  
  is Baritone and has sold thousands of his CDs in his Doctors Office......... Get his CD from the CD-Order-Page!

• Dr.med. Heinz Knittel, tenor
  
  is singing with the German Doctors Orchestra regularly.
  He published an own CD with some very beautiful concert arias!

• Josef Schlömicher-Thier is BaritonDoc, BreweryDoc and TractorDoc

  Josef grew up in a musical farmers family in the Steiermark/Austria. Later he was a professional beer brewer and then studied
  medicine and singing in Graz. He specialized as general practitioner in Graz/Austria and Leoben/Austria.
  He studied singing at the conservatory of Graz (Mag. Schmaranz) and at the music academy of Graz (Sologesang with Prof. Suttheimer and Liedgesang with Prof. Zeller). Opera Drama classes with Prof. Pöppelreiter, contracted for Don Carlos at the Graz Opera House.

  Listen to his voice

  Read about him and some surprise hobby at the end!

  www.austrianvoice.at

  www.Stimme.at

• Karl-Heinz Bomberg is "Liedermacher" (SingingDoc)

  

  At times of the GDR he sang in churches at least 50 times a year
  and his protest songs were essential for surviving in the communist regime of that time.

  So far he has given more than 1000 recitals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England, France and Hungary.

  When he gave a tape with his recordings to a friend to carry it to the Bavarian Radio station
  he had bad luck - since this man was "IM" (part of the secret service). THis brough Bomberg
  to jail for "political reasons"...

  Five years later the Berlin wall fell - and Bomberg slightly sang different kinds of songs, more poetical kind.
  Although there are occasions to sing the "old" protest songs on congresses or events where this musical
  period is estimated.

  He recently brought out a new CD with his band, listen to a sample (.mp3): "Herr Binder oder Schlips und Kragen"!

  Visit his homepage: http://www.kh-bomberg.de

  read original article in "Deutsches Ärzteblatt": http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/artikel.asp?src=suche&id=55694

  and see movies about his www.Buchen.de recital at http://www.youtube.com/khbomberg

  See in his presentation!
   

• Johannes Scholl is BaritonDoc, ThriatlonDoc, BycicleDoc, SportsDoc, WineDoc

  

  Born in  1965 at Eltville am Rhein, grown up in the "gotical Wine Village" Kiedrich im Rheingau.
  1971-1986 Member in the boys choir "Kiedricher Chorbuben"
  1984 Abitur at Rheingaugymnasium Geisenheim
  1984-1991 Medical studies in Frankfurt am Main with studies in Chile, England and Switzerland
  1984-1991 scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
  1991-1992 "Arzt im Praktikum", Innere Medizin, Kreiskrankenhaus Gelnhausen
  1992 Doctorate degree on "Albert Schweitzers Ethik der Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben und sein Urwaldspital in Lambarene" (1993 published at Verlag Beltz-Athenäum)
  January through July 1993 working at a development project of the franciscanians in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brasile
  1993-1998 Specialisation in Internal Medicine at "Städtisches Krankenhaus München-Bogenhausen"
  since 1995 scientifical work with prevention medicine, numerous lectures on congresses and trainings
  1999-2001 working as specialist of Internal medicine at "PREVENT / Karlsruhe"
  11/2000 education for "Physical Fitness Specialist" (Personal Trainer) at the Cooper Institute in Dallas/Texas, USA
  July 2001 fondation of Prevention First
  2002 education for nutritional medicine
  2000-2002 specialisation for sport medicine
  03/2004 education for "Master of Physical Fitness" (final class as trainer) at Cooper Institute in Dallas/Tx., USA
  11/2005 election for president of the "Deutsche Akademie für Präventivmedizin e.V."
  10/2006 opening of the second office of "Prevention First in Frankfurt am Main

  SingingDoc singing studies as Baritone 1988-1996 with Richard Levitt, Basel and 1996-1998 with Mary McSweeney, München, actually studies with his brother, the well-known Countertenor Andreas Scholl; solistical performances in cantatas and Oratories by J. S. Bach  and moderation of wine testings.

See at his own presentation with many other photos

• Ulf Wittenberg is not only JazzDoc

  (as already presented) but also PhotoDoc, ArtDoc, SaxDoc, BlusHarpDoc, JazzSingingDoc.

Jazz-SingingDoc

Ulf+WinseDyre

See at his presentation now!

• Christian Schüler is BaritonDoc

Schüler grew up in East Germany and was in the famous Thomaner-Chor in Leipzig. From this he participated in a singing ensemble "Circulus Virtuosus"  (NOT "vitious circle"....) with 4 other men, medical doctors as well!

is a "Boy Group" of five medical doctors who had sung together in the Leipzig "Thomanerchor". Later as medical doctors they found back together and produced a CompactDisc "C.V."

click here for direct online order over our SECURE saferpay.com server: Circulus Virtuosus

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