Rapauke meets a conductor

Steffen Tast was born in 1965 in Berlin.

After studying violin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin in 1987, he became a member of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). In the same year, his interest in contemporary music led him to the chamber ensemble “Kammerensemble Neue Musik” Berlin (KNM).

In recent years, he has been appearing increasingly as a conductor. Initially, the focus was on working with KNM Berlin. This was followed by invitations as a conductor with the Ensemble Oriol, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Ensemble Modern, and the Ensemble Ascolta Stuttgart. Since 2005 he has been regularly conducting chamber orchestra concerts with members of the RSB and their orchestra academy, and also symphony concerts as part of the family- and school student concerts of the orchestra since 2014. In his home village of Klein Leppin in north-western Brandenburg, he was one of the initiators of the project “Dorf macht Oper” (“Village makes opera”) in 2005 and has since been its musical director.

Steffen Tast is involved as mentor in the orchestra academy of the RSB.

Isbael Stegner studied violin in Mannheim and Berlin and is a violinist with the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Inspired by music projects for her own children, she also completed a degree in music education at the Detmold University of Music and Performing Arts and has since worked passionately as a freelance music educator. In addition to the Rapauke series of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, she organises projects for the Kammerakademie and the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam and the Ensemble Aventure in Freiburg. She holds a teaching position at the Freiburg University of Music.
Communicating with the audience as equals, motivating fellow musicians, thinking creatively and reflecting the diversity of society: These are the principles that guide her in her work as a mediator.

Prof. Jule Greiner worked as an elementary music teacher at the Kreuzberg Music School before teaching at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she subsequently held a professorship for elementary music education at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. She has also worked and continues to work as a lecturer in further and continuing education for teachers and educators as well as for musicians in kindergarten and concert programmes. She is co-author of various works on EMP and regularly writes articles on the subject in specialist journals.

As part of the Robert Bosch Stiftung’s ‘Art and Games’ funding project, she developed and designed the concert series ‘Rapauke macht Musik’ for children aged 3 to 6, which received the ‘JUNGE OHREN PREIS’ from the ‘netzwerk junge ohren’ for music education in 2017.