Rupert Huber (conductor)
Rupert Huber (born May 28, 1953 in Braunau am Inn ) is an Austrian choir director , conductor , composer and performance artist .
Rupert Huber was born in 1953 in the Upper Austrian Innviertel in Braunau am Inn and completed his conducting and composition diploma at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with distinction in the subject "Composition", for which he received the Lilli Lehmann Medal in 1984 . With the ensembles Spinario and seconda prattica, which he later founded, he realized numerous performance-like performances and musical installations.
Since 1983 Rupert Huber has been working increasingly with German radio choirs, above all with the choirs of NDR , WDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk , but also the radio orchestras of WDR , SWR and ORF as well as ensembles such as musikFabrik NRW and KlangForum Wien. As a conductor, he is highly valued for his high conceptual quality of musical programming. From 1989 to 2000 Rupert Huber was chief conductor of the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and from 2002 to 2005 he directed the Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Choir and was the choir director of the Salzburg Festival . From 2004 to 2011 he was chief conductor of the WDR radio choir . Rupert Huber conducted numerous world premieres by Luigi Nono ( Da un diario italiano ), Klaus Huber ( Quod est pax? ), Jani Christou ( Project 21 ), Karlheinz Stockhausen ( World Parliament , Michaelion , Litany 97 , Hoch-Zeiten ), Nikolaus Brass ( The Structures of Echo - Lindauer Beweinung ), Beat Furrer , Toshio Hosokawa and Klaus Lang and has received prizes from the German record critics for CD productions, including recordings of works by Robert Schumann and Luigi Nono.
As a composer, he is particularly interested in the effect of music, its ability to change perception (e.g. contact singing). He pays special attention to the development of music and its direct effect on the audience and singers. Rupert Huber taught various theoretical subjects on the subject of "musical impact research" at various universities and was professor for choral conducting at the Graz University of Music from 1996–98 . His range of work also includes intensive research work with the shamans in Nepal.
Huber was a member of the Netzwerk Neue Musik eV From 2008 to 2011 he headed the ChorWerkRuhr in Gelsenkirchen and, in addition to classical concerts, focused on musical installations and new forms of vocal ensemble work.
In October 2010 Huber's choral composition Al Ganvy was premiered at the Festival Zukunftsmusik in Stuttgart, the text of which is based on the 112th sura of the Koran .
literature
- Andrea Harrandt, Georg Demcisin: Huber, Rupert. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Official website for Rupert Huber
- Entry in the lexicon of the music information center austria association
- Rupert Huber's biography from ( Memento from March 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) WDR Rundfunkchor Köln
- Rupert Huber in the ChorWerkRuhr
- Works by and about Rupert Huber in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huber, Rupert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huber, Rupert A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian choir director, conductor, composer and performance artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunau am Inn |