Barbara Koerppen was a professor at the Hochschule fur Musik Hannover, and founded a youth symphony orchestra, playing as its concertmaster.
12 Facts About Barbara Koerppen
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Barbara Koerppen studied improvisation and figured bass with Alfred Koerppen, who taught composition and music theory.
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Barbara Koerppen worked as organist in church service and gave violin lessons.
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Barbara Koerppen served in the institution's senate, and in various functions such as orchestra rehearsals for Felix Prohaska.
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Barbara Koerppen toured to Japan where she worked with Shinichi Suzuki, promoting his method in Germany.
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Barbara Koerppen served on the jury of the Jugend musiziert competition on state and national level, and was a lector of pedagogical works for publishing houses.
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Barbara Koerppen was concertmaster of the Handel Festival in Herrenhausen, in the Hausegger-Orchester and in the chamber music ensemble of Ferdinand Conrad.
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Barbara Koerppen was concertmaster for a performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Stadthalle Hannover in 1964, with the Knabenchor Hannover and soloists Siff Petersen, Marga Hoffgen, Josef Traxel and Kieth Engen.
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Barbara Koerppen premiered works by her husband, such as the song cycle Dauer der Freude in Munich 1967.
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Barbara Koerppen took part in a 1973 recording for the NDR of her husband's chamber music works, called Alfred Koerppen Edition 3.
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Barbara Koerppen held orchestra and chamber music seminars at the Senioren-Akademie Hamburg for more than ten years, and took part on orchestra seminars at the Bundesakademie Trossingen.
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In 1965, Barbara Koerppen was awarded the Niedersachsenpreis fur Musik of Lower Saxony, and in 1992 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.