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								 Biography 
								
								
									
								Jochen Brusch, violinist 
								 
								 Jochen 
								Brusch studied violin at the conservatories of 
								Essen and Hanover. He graduated from the 
								Duisburg conservatory and the “Royal College of 
								Music”, London. 
								 
								After his educational years he held positions as 
								violinist in the “Herning Stadstrio”, an 
								official Danish piano-trio and as concertmaster 
								of the “Essen Philharmonic Orchestra” in Germany. 
								 
								He now lives with his family in the 
								university-town of Tübingen, South-Germany, 
								where he has established a versatile freelance 
								career. 
								 
								As a violinist he performs the great 
								violin-concerti of amongst others Mozart, 
								Beethoven, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Brahms, the 
								complete solo-works by Bach and Ysaye as well as 
								many more works of the standard repertory. He is 
								equally at home in other styles of music such as 
								Tango, Gipsy and Klezmer.  
								 
								As part of the exciting project “Retro Rock” he 
								regularly plays music by Pink Floyd, The Doors, 
								Jethro Tull, Procol Harum and other “classics” 
								of that genre. 
								 
								Together with Danish guitarist Finn Svit he has 
								been an official guest-soloist within the Danish 
								cultural program for children in the show 
								“Animals in Music” and other shows, performed 
								hundreds of times during the recent years. 
								 
								Jochen Brusch has published a number of 
								compositions and transcriptions that have been 
								widely appreciated . among these 30 
								transcriptions of keyboard works by Bach and his 
								own concert-piece “The Eagle”. 
								 
								Jochen Brusch has been appointed conductor of 
								the orchestra of the “Tübinger Kammermusikkreis” 
								in 2008, with which he also performs 
								violinconcertos such as the concertos by Mozart, 
								Viotti, Paganini, Vieuxtemps and others. 
								 
								His publications on CD of more than 150 works of 
								the violin repertoire have been highly acclaimed. 
								 
								A violin by Peter Greiner of Bonn modeled after 
								Paganini’s famous “Guarnerius del Gésu” is his 
								favorite concert instrument. 
								 
								
								www.jochenbrusch.de 
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