In 1980, Pank left the orchestra[3] and took up a teaching position at the Musikhochschule, as a lecturer from 1984,[4] and as professor of cello and viol from 1988.[2] In 1991, he founded an Early music (Alte Musik) department there. He became emeritus in 2001, but still lectured until 2006. He has held seminars and master classes. He has published about performance practice and interpretation of music of the 17th and 18th centuries.[2] He is also a member of the jury at the Deutscher Musikrat as well as at several international competitions, such as the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Bach-Abel Competition in Köthen and the Magdeburger Telemann-Festtage. He was a co-founder of the International Telemann Association in 1991, and became its president in 2012.[1][5]
Pank lives in Markkleeberg near Leipzig. His son Sebastian Pank is also a musician and the founder and owner of the record label RaumklangatSchloss Goseck [de], which specialises in Early music.[8]
On 10 September 2008, Pank received the Brandenburg Bach Society's Honorary Prize during a concert at the Bachtage Potsdam, in honour of his artistic, musicological and pedagogical services to Bach and for his commitment to the festival.[9][10]
^Matthias Müller: Abend der Viola da Gamba – Bachtage-Ehrenpreis für den Solisten Siegfried Pank (Evening of Viola da Gamba – Bach Festival Honorary Prize for the soloist Siegfried Pank). In: Märkische Allgemeine, 12 September 2008.
Hans-Rainer Jung: Das Gewandhaus-Orchester. Seine Mitglieder und seine Geschichte seit 1743.OCLC180924504 Mit Beiträgen zur Kultur- und Zeitgeschichte von Claudius Böhm, Faber und Faber, Leipzig 2006, ISBN3-936618-86-0, p. 277.
Unkraut jäten, damit man nicht den Überblick verliert... Interview mit Prof. em. Siegried Pank anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstages. In JOURNAL Zeitschrift der Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, Nr. 21, Sommersemester 2006. : 46f
Werner Wolf: Siegfried Pank 75. Ein Leben für Cello, Gambe und Alte Musik. In the Leipziger Volkszeitung, 24 March 2011, p. 10.
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