Rapp heads the Barenboim-Said Academy
Regula Rapp, the former Rector of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and current Rector of the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts, will become Rector of the Barenboim-Said-Akademie in Berlin at the end of March 2022. She succeeds the founding rector Michael Naumann in this position.
Born in Constance in 1961, Rapp studied historical keyboard instruments, musicology, philosophy and art history in Berlin. From 1990 to 1998, she was deputy director of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she returned as rector from 2005 to 2012. In between, she worked as chief dramaturge at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin. She has been Rector of the University of Music in Stuttgart since 2012.
The state-recognized Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin offers a Bachelor's degree course in music for talented young people, primarily from the Middle East and North Africa. The intensive course of study places a second focus on humanities and musicology subjects. In addition to the Bachelor's degree, an Artist Diploma can be obtained in all orchestral instrumental subjects as well as piano, composition and conducting. The Artist Diploma prepares aspiring musicians for a professional career.
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