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Robert
Schumann Higher School of Music
(Dusselforf,
Germany)
The
history of the Dusseldorf Higher School of Music named after
Robert Schumann goes back to the 1930-ies.
In
1935 three major private music schools merged, giving birth to
the Robert Schumann Conservatory. There were only orchestral,
opera and teaching departments there. Starting from 1945 and
during the 1950-ies, another private music school was added to
the Conservatory, as well as the department of Catholic music
was opened, which enlarged the limited number of music
specialties that had been taught at the Conservatory before.
In
1972 the Conservatory was given the status of a higher music
school and was named the Robert Schumann Institute of the
Rhineland State Higher School of Music, while the latter
became a music educational establishment of federal land
significance. Besides, in 1972 the Rhineland School of
ecclesiastical music belonging to the Rhineland Evangelic
Church was included in the Institute.
In
1976 the Robert Schumann Higher School of Music made an
agreement with Bundeswehr,
according to which it undertook to carry out
artistic management of education of military musicians
together with the Hilden music teaching corps. In 1978
military orchestra conducting was finally transferred to
Dusseldorf, which made it possible to close similar
departments in other higher music schools of the country.
In
compliance with the Law on Higher Arts Schools adopted in
Northern Rhine-Westphalia in 1987, its parliament decided to
reorganize the Institute into the Dusseldorf Higher School of
Music named after Robert Schumann as an independent autonomous
structure. It was then that the Museum of Music Pedagogics was
founded and since 1990 it has become one of the key divisions
of the School. In 1989 the Robert Schumann Higher School of
Music was given the right to grant academic degrees in music.
In the 1990-ies there were also opened the Institute of
Composition and the Institute of Musicology.
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Aline
Saniter
Aline
Saniter (viola) was born in 1978 in Stuttgart. At the age of six
she started her violin studies with Friedrich Rüstig and at
the age of eleven - piano studies with Prof. Rudolf Dennemarck
in Karlsruhe. During
the year 1993 she took music lessons from Gunter Teuffel,
concertmaster of the viola group of the SW Radio Orchestra in
Stuttgart. In 1997 Aline Saniter became a student of the viola
class of Prof. Jürgen Kussmaul at the Robert Schumann
Higher School of Music in Dusseldorf. Since 1998 she has been a
member of the Kreuzer Quartet in Bonn and in 2000 – a member
of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra directed by such
outstanding conductors as Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozava, Pierre
Boulez and others.
Aline
Saniter is a laureate of the International Young Viola Players
in the town of Bled, Slovenia (2000, 1st prize) and
the Felix Mendelssohn Competition (2002, Berlin).
In
February 2002 Aline Saniter graduated from the Robert Schumann
Higher School of Music with a diploma.
So-Jin
Kim
So-Jin
Kim (piano) was born in 1984. She began her music studies at the
age of six. In 1996 she started taking her first lessons from
Prof. Barbara Szczepanska and when she was 14 she became her
student at the Robert Schumann Higher School of Music in
Dusseldorf.
So-Jin
Kim is a laureate of several competitions: the national
competition “Youth plays music” (1st prize), the
Steinway Competition (2nd prize), the Thürmer
Competition in Bochum (1st prize) and the First
International Vienna Pianists Competition (1st prize,
2001). She was also a success as a member of the trio at the
Charles Hennen Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands.
S-Jin
Kim often performs as a soloist with orchestras including the
Schumann Higher School of Music Orchestra, Berlin Radio
Orchestra, Breslau Philharmonic Orchestra, etc.
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