Gertrud Huber

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Gertrud Maria Huber (born October 18, 1963 in Altötting ) is a German zither player and music teacher .

Life

Gertrud Huber grew up in Marktl, Bavaria, near the Austrian border. She comes from a humble background, her father was a mechanic and her mother a housewife. At the age of five she received her first lessons on the zither. In 1981 she won first prize at the national level in the “Zither solo” category at Jugend musiziert . Gertrud Huber began her professional career at the Wacker Chemie plant in Burghausen. She worked there until she began studying music.

She studied at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Applied Sciences zither in the diploma course as well as harp, dulcimer and jazz clarinet. Since 1996, Gertrud Huber has been a guest lecturer at the Federal Academy for Musical Education in Trossingen (zither teacher training). She is committed to the next generation of music as a federal youth officer in the German Zither Music Association. V. and at the Association of German Music Schools as an examination representative. She has been a juror in the “Jugend musiziert” competition for years.

In 2014, as part of her doctorate at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, she wrote a scientific thesis entitled “The Zither in America. The 'modern mountain zither' in American performance based on four case studies ”. She was looked after by Gerlinde Haid .

music

Fascinated by the folk music heritage of her Bavarian homeland, Gertrud Huber combines this tradition with different stylistic and musical directions. In addition to the zither and harp, she also plays dulcimer , jazz clarinet and typical alpine instruments such as the Styrian harmonica and raffele . Again and again she complements her emotional instrumental playing with sung yodels and traditional songs. Gertrud Huber can appear on numerous national and international appearances (in Europe, the USA, Asia and New Zealand), u. a. with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Kurt Masur , and has made various CD recordings, including the reproduction The Third Man Theme (The Third Man) and “The Way to the Heart - Salon Music Gertrud Huber” , which was released by Silva Screen Records in London. , submitted. As part of her solo activity, she worked several times with the actresses Christiane Hörbiger , Marianne Sägebrecht and Senta Berger . She played the farmer 's harp with the Toni Goth Ensemble for over ten years.

Discography (excerpt)

  • 1990: “Folk Music from Munich” - folk music ensemble of the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, Cultural Department of the City of Munich
  • 1993: "Castle Concert in Hohenkammer " - Toni-Goth-Ensemble, EGO music production
  • 1994: "Castle Concert in Jetzendorf " - Toni-Goth-Ensemble, EGO music production
  • 1996: "Saitenblicke II" - Sappradi, Global Records
  • 1996: “A way to the heart” - Salonmusik Gertrud Huber, GH 960702
  • 1998: "Jamei" - Sappradi, Meilton
  • 1999: "Schlosskonzert in Amerang " - Toni-Goth-Ensemble, Sixn-Dirndl, EGO music production
  • 2003: "The Third Man" - Anton Karas, Silva Screen Records Ltd.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gertrud Huber, zither player. PhD in Ethnomusicology. br.de from November 26, 2014 ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Gertrud Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zither player and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Altötting