Michael Hauber

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Michael Hauber (* 1958 in Stuttgart ) is a German pianist.

Hauber studied at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and continued his education from 1984 to 1988 as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. He was then a finalist at the Robert Casadesus Piano Competition in Cleveland and in 1989 a prize winner at the International Beethoven Competition in Vienna. With the piano trio Trio Opus 8, which he founded in 1986 (which also includes Eckhard Fischer and Mario de Secondi ), he won the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and the International Chamber Music Competition ›Sergio Lorenzi‹ in Trieste. He has appeared as a soloist with various symphony orchestras and as a chamber musician with Eduard Brunner , Radovan Vlatković , Rainer Moog and Ingeborg Danz, among others . His discography includes all the piano trios by Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Johannes Brahms , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Joachim Raff . Hauber has been professor for piano and chamber music at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Mannheim since 2000 .

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