Siegfried
FINK (b.
1928)
Fink
studied percussion and composition at the University of Music in Weimar, then
East Germany. He founded and headed the percussion studio at the University of
Music in Würzburg, West Germany, from 1965 until his retirement in 1993.
Fink has appeared on numerous recordings as performer, composer and conductor.
He has published over 140 compositions, numerous arrangements, method books and
essays. For many years, he was a percussion consultant for the World Youth
Orchestra of the Jeunesses Musicales Mondiales. Fink received the Federal Republic of
Germany’s
highest honor for his lifetime achievements in percussion education, the order
of the "Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande."
He was also honoured by the State Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria with the
title Doctor Honoris Causa.
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