Biography
Markus Huber was born in in Munich, Germany. He began his professional career as a boy soprano soloist with the Tölzer Knabenchor (1975-1982). Hghlights of this early career development time were performances with Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Dennis Russel Davies.He studied at the Musikhochschule in Munich and Vienna with Leopold Hager (conducting), Karl-Hermann Mrongovius (piano), and others. During his studies, he was répétiteur for August Everding’s stage direction class and taught other students the art of piano accompaniment for soloists.
He began his conducting career in 1996 as répétiteur and conductor at the Landestheater Detmold. A year later, he was appointed to the same roles and to be director of the second chorus of Opernhaus Chemnitz. He was appointed principal conductor of the Collegium Instrumentale Chemnitz in 1999. Between 2002 and 2007, he was principal guest conductor of the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra, and in 2003 he became principal conductor of Westsächsisches Sinfonieorchester Leipzig. From 2008 he was the Music Director of Opera Pforzheim.
By invitation, Markus Huber has conducted numerous renowned orchestras, including the Münchner Symphoniker, Hamburger Symphoniker, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, das ORF- Symphonieorchester, Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, Johann-Strauß Ensemble Linz, numerous orchestras in the USA, such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Turku Philharmonic, and orchestras in Tokyo, Singapur and Kuala Lumpur.
Since the season 2019/20, he is the new Chief Conductor of the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach. Guest engagements lead him, among others, to the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, and the Jenaer Philharmonie.
Markus Huber devotes a significant part of his time to the work of Richard Wagner. In 2013 he made his debut with Tristan und Isolde in New Orleans, followed by the Ring cycle excerpts with the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in 2014 and Lohengrin in Pforzheim in 2015. In 2013 a CD was also released with the Badische Philharmonie with works by Mozart and Reger. The CD received a very positive response in professional circles.
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Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Adams | Chamber Symphony |
Bach, C.P.E. | Streichersinfonie |
Bach, J.S. | 4 Orchestersuiten |
Brandenburg Concertos | |
Mass in B minor | |
St John Passion | |
Goldberg Variations (by Sitkovetsky) | |
Barber, S. | Adagio for strings |
Bartok | 2. Piano Concerto |
3. Piano Concerto | |
Divertimento | |
Concert for Orchestra | |
Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Schlagzeug. u. Cello | |
Tanzsuite | |
Beethoven | 5 Piano Concertos |
9 Symphonies | |
Coriolan Ouverture | |
Egmont Ouverture | |
Leonore Ouverture | |
String quartet op. 131 | |
Berg | Lulu-Suite |
Violin Concerto | |
Berlioz | Harold en Italie |
Le Carnaval Romain Ouverture | |
Symphonie fantastique | |
Borodin, A. | 3. Symphony |
Polovtsian Dances | |
Steppenskizze aus Mittelasien | |
Brahms | 2 Piano Concertos |
4 Symphonies | |
Double Concerto | |
A German Requiem | |
Haydn-Variations | |
Violin Concerto | |
Britten | Simple Symphony |
Bruch | Violin Concerto in G minor |
Bruckner | 3. Symphony |
4. Symphony | |
7. Symphony | |
9. Symphony | |
Mass in E minor | |
Nullte Sinfonie | |
Debussy | La Mer |
Nocturnes | |
Prélude à l`après-midi d'un faune | |
Rhapsodie für Klarinette und Orchester | |
Dvorak | 6. Symphony |
7. Symphony | |
8. Symphony | |
9. Symphony | |
Cello Concerto | |
Slavonic Dances | |
Egk, W. | „Die Nachtigall“ Divertimento für Streichorchester |
Musik für Streichorchester | |
„Passacaglia“ | |
Elgar | Cello Concerto |
Serenade für Streichorchester | |
Francaix, J. | Bassoon Concerto |
Trombone Concerto | |
Gorecki, H. | 3. Symphony |
Grieg | Holberg Suite |
Piano Concerto | |
Peer Gynt | |
Haydn | Selected Symphonies |
Cello Concertos in C major and D major | |
Concertante für Ob., Fg., Vl., u. Vc. | |
The Creation | |
Piano Concerto in D major | |
Trumpet Concerto | |
Hindemith | Mathis der Maler |
Schwanendreher | |
Trauermusik für Viola und Streicher | |
Holst | The Planets |
Ives, Ch. | 2. Symphony |
4. Symphony | |
Central Park in the Dark | |
The Unanswered Question | |
Lalo, E. | Symphonie espagnole |
Liszt | 2 Piano Concertos |
Les Préludes | |
Mahler | 1. Symphony |
2. Symphony | |
3. Symphony | |
5. Symphony | |
10. Symphony | |
Songs of a Wayfarer | |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | 3. Symphony |
4. Symphony | |
5. Symphony | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
Violin Concerto | |
Mozart | Selected Piano Concertos |
Selected Symphonies | |
Selected Violin Concertos | |
Flute Concerto | |
Horn Concerto | |
Requiem | |
Mussorgski | Pictures at an Exhibition |
Night on Bald Mountain | |
Nielsen, C. | 1. Symphony |
2. Symphony | |
Flute Concerto | |
Orff | Carmina Burana |
Pärt, A. | Cantus in memory B. Britten für Streichorchester u. Glocke |
Festina lente | |
Fratres | |
Summa | |
Prokofiev | 5. Symphony |
Peter and the Wolf | |
Romeo and Juliet | |
Puccini | 3 Menuette für Streichorchester |
Ravel | 2 Piano Concertos |
Boléro | |
Daphnis et Chloé | |
Le tombeau de couperin | |
Ma mère l'oye | |
Rhapsodie espagnole | |
Reger | Mozart-Variations |
Christmas op. 145 | |
Rimsky-Korsakow | Scheherazade |
Rossini | 6 Sonaten für Streichorchester |
Selected Ouverture | |
Saint-Saëns | 2. Piano Concerto |
3. Symphony | |
Cello Concerto | |
The Carnival of the Animals | |
Sarasate, P. | Zigeunerweisen |
Schönberg | 5 Orchesterstücke op. 16 |
Pierrot lunaire | |
Transfigured Night | |
Shostakovich | 1. Symphony |
5. Symphony | |
6. Symphony | |
7. Symphony | |
9. Symphony | |
12. Symphony | |
15. Symphony | |
Cello Concerto | |
Kammersinfonie op. 110 | |
Concerto for Piano and Trumpet | |
Schubert | 3. Symphony |
7. Symphony | |
8. Symphony | |
9. Symphony | |
Schumann | 4 Symphonies |
Cello Concerto | |
Piano Concerto | |
Manfred Ouverture | |
Schtschedrin, R. | Lobgesänge |
Russische Fotographien (1994) | |
Sibelius | 2. Symphony |
5. Symphony | |
Finlandia | |
Valse triste | |
Violin Concerto | |
Skrjabin, A. | Le poèm de l'extase |
Smetana | Má vlast |
Strauss, R. | Alpensinfonie |
Burleske für Klavier und Orchester d-Moll | |
Don Juan | |
Methamorphosen | |
Till Eulenspiegel | |
Death and Transfiguration | |
Stravinsky | The Firebird |
The Soldier's Tale | |
Le rossignol | |
The Rite of Spring | |
Les Noces | |
Petrushka | |
Psalm Symphony | |
Symphony in D major | |
Takemitsu | Rain coming |
Tchaikovsky | 1. Piano Concerto |
1812 Ouverture Solennelle | |
6 Symphonies | |
Capriccio Italienne | |
Romeo and Juliet | |
Violin Concerto | |
Vivaldi | The Seasons |
Wagner | Siegfried-Idyll |
Weber | 2 Clarinet Concertos |
Webern | Variations op. 30 |
Weill | The Seven Deadly Sins |
Repertoire Opera/Operetta
Beethoven | Fidelio |
Leonore Urfassung | |
Berg | Wozzeck |
Berlioz | La damnation de Faust |
Bernstein | West Side Story |
Bizet | Carmen |
Britten | Albert Herring |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
Burkhart | Feuerwerk |
Debussy | Pelleas et Melisande |
Donizetti | Don Pasquale |
La fille du régiment | |
Lucia di Lammermoor | |
Egk | Die Zaubergeige |
Flotow | Martha |
Glass | Fall of the House of Usher |
Gounod | Margarethe |
Hindemith | Cardillac |
Humperdinck | Hansel and Gretel |
Janacek | Jenufa |
Kalman | Die Csárdásfürstin |
Die Zirkusprinzessin | |
Gräfin Mariza | |
Leoncavallo | Bajazzo |
Lortzing | Der Waffenschmied |
Der Wildschütz | |
Zar und Zimmermann | |
Mascagni | Cavalleria rusticana |
Monteverdi | L'incoronazione di Poppea |
Mozart | Cosi fan tutte |
Der Schauspieldirektor | |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail | |
Die Zauberflöte | |
Don Giovanni | |
Le nozze di Figaro | |
Natschinski | Mein Freund Bunbury |
Messeschlager Gisela | |
Offenbach | Les contes d'Hoffmann |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia |
Prokofjew | Die Verlobung im Kloster |
Puccini | La Bohème |
Madama Butterfly | |
Tosca | |
Turandot | |
Purcell | Dida and Aeneas |
Smetana | The Bartered Bride |
Shostakovich | Lady Macbeth |
Strauss, J. | Der Zigeunerbaron |
Die Fledermaus | |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne on Naxos |
Der Rosenkavalier | |
Salome | |
Verdi | Aida |
Don Carlos | |
Falstaff | |
La Traviata | |
Nabucco | |
Otello | |
Requiem | |
Rigoletto | |
Un ballo in maschera | |
Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg |
Lohengrin | |
Parsifal | |
Ring | |
Tannhäuser | |
Tristan und Isolde | |
Weber | Der Freischütz |
Weill | Street Scene |
Zeller | Der Vogelhändler |
News
Performing together "Das Lied von der Erde"
On January 16 and 17, three of our artists will be together on a concert stage for the first time: Markus Huber, Marcel Reijans and Silvia Hauer will perform Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” on the occasion of two symphony concerts with the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach:January 16, 8 p.m., Kulturhaus Gotha
January 17, 7:30 p.m., Landestheater Eisenach
Energetic start in his new position
With the 2019/20 season, Markus Huber is the new GMD of the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach. In an interview with the artistic director, Michaela Barchevitch, Markus Huber talks about his future plans with: www.youtube.com/...Ballett including Strawinsky's Petrushka and Ravel's Boléro: November 8/16/28/ 08./26. December; January 26
2nd Symphony Concert with works by Rota, Korngold and Dvorak: November 14/15/16
3rd Symphony Concert with Silvia Hauer and Marcel Reijans; i.a. Mahler's "Lied von der Erde": January 16/17
Media
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Videos
Label: Naxos, Komponist: Henry Vieuxtemps
Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach
Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 with the
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (Excerpt)
Press
Operngala / Heidelberger Stadthalle / 22.11.17 / Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
"ebenso kompetent am Dirigentenpult wie gewitzt in seinen Moderationen"
24. Neujahrsmatinee der Philharmonischen Gesellschaft OWL / Bad Oeynhausen Theater im Park / 16.01.2017/ westfalen-blatt.de
"Ein märchenhafter Musikgenuss"
Operettengala mit der Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz / BASF-Feierabendhaus Ludwigshafen / 04.01.2016 / Mannheimer Morgen
"musikalische Verführung im Walzertakt"