Walter Hilgers
Walter Hilgers ( born 1959 in Stolberg, Germany ) is a German tuba player.
He performs worldwide as orchestral musician, soloist, academic music teacher, arranger and conductor.
Studies:
1976 - 1978 at Rheinland State Institute of Music Aachen
Musical career:
1978 - 1981 Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
1979 Bayreuth Festival
1981 - 1991 Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
1982 - 1986 regular guest at Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
1987 - 1991 regular guest at NDR Symphony Orchestra
1979 - 2007 brass ensemble German Brass
1991 - 1995 NDR Symphony Orchestra
2005 - 2007 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna State Opera
Teacher:
1978 - 1981 Robert Schumann Institute of Music in Düsseldorf
1989 - 1995 professor for tuba and chamber music at the Hamburg Institute of Fine Arts
since 1995 professor for tuba and chamber music at Franz Liszt academy of music in Weimar
Conductor / Director:
since 1995 ensemble Tritonus Wimares, founded by W. Hilgers. Members are soloists of the Staatskapelle Weimar
since 2000 Young German Brass Soloists ( Junge Deutsche Blechbläsersolisten )
guest conductor at Philharmonic State Orchestra Košice, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic State Orchestra Montevideo, Europe festival orchestra
External links
- official website in English & German
- Guest Conductor with Romanian National Radio Orchestra of Bucharest, Romania Conducting the world premiere of the Holocaust music "Cries from Earth to Heaven"
- Young German Brass Soloists (Junge Deutsche Blechbläsersolisten)
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