Tobias Hiller

Tobias Hiller (born August 23, 1966 in Waldkirch , Breisgau ; † July 4, 2010 in Ravensburg ) was a German choir director , conductor and composer . From 1999 until his death he was university music director at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

biography

Tobias Hiller studied school music in Freiburg (with a focus on singing, oboe and conducting), geography and history, as well as choir and orchestra conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Wolfgang Schäfer . As a professional choir singer (partly also as a soloist) he sang under Michael Gielen , Péter Eötvös , Roger Norrington , Eliahu Inbal , Philippe Herreweghe , Ton Koopman , Gustav Leonhardt , Thomas Hengelbrock , Ivor Bolton and others. a., as an ensemble singer in the Orlando di Lasso Ensemble, he worked from 1991 to 2001, primarily in the field of early music.

As part of his teaching activities as a solfège teacher at the Freiburg University of Music, he conducted various world premieres at the Institute for New Music. As the permanent director of various ensembles in Germany and Switzerland, he developed a wide-ranging concert repertoire. In addition to regularly teaching courses for choral conducting and ensemble singing throughout Germany, guest lectureships have taken him to Brazil (University of São Paulo, Campus Ribeirão Preto) and the USA since 2005. Since 2008 Tobias Hiller has been teaching choir conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

In 1999 Tobias Hiller was appointed to succeed Alexander Šumski as university music director in Tübingen. Since then he has followed invitations to numerous European countries, to Morocco, China, Brazil, Canada and the USA with his ensembles Camerata vocalis , Academic Choir and Academic Orchestra Tübingen. At the 40th International Choir Competition 2003 in Spittal an der Drau (Austria) in early July, he and the Camerata vocalis chamber choir won third prize in the art song category (also as the best European choir). In summer 2005 he opened the European Church Music Festival Schwäbisch Gmünd with Benjamin Britten's War Requiem . For the performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher , Hiller brought together children's and local choirs in addition to his university ensembles.

In addition to the constant collaboration with the Sinfonietta Tübingen, Tobias Hiller has given concerts as a guest conductor with professional ensembles in France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Mexico and the United States. Rehearsals led to cooperation with the Leipzig Bach Festival , the Weimar Arts Festival , Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , among others

Some choral compositions by Tobias Hiller are documented on CD recordings by the Camerata vocalis, which were created in collaboration with the SWR in recent years: Musical Mörike comments on a CD for the 200th birthday of Eduard Mörike (2004, speaker: Christian Brückner ), angel triptych on the CD Engelsgesänge (2006), notes on the CD Liebeleyen (2008). His completion of the 3rd movement of Schubert's Unfinished was published in 2004 in Schubert: Perspektiven .

On July 4, 2010 Tobias Hiller fell from a tree and died a little later in a clinic from his serious injuries.

Competitions and symposia

with the Camerata vocalis Tübingen

• 2003: 40th international choir competition Spittal an der Drau / AU beginning of July: 3rd prize in the art song category (also best European choir)
• 2007: Maas-Mechelen / B choir competition (no award)
• 2008: ACDA Conference North Western Division Vancouver / CAN
• 2009: Cork International Choral Festival third best mixed choir, Musica International Award for Tobias Hiller

Discography

as head of the Camerata vocalis Tübingen (all recordings in cooperation with the SWR)

• 2002: Help to dig the well of life for the 525th anniversary of the university
• 2004: for the 200th birthday of Eduard Mörike: poems (speaker: Christian Brückner ) and settings (Tobias Hiller).
• 2006: Angel chants (works by Bach , Brahms , Lasso , Poulenc , Tschaikowski , Hiller etc.)
• 2008: Liebeleyen (works by Mendelssohn , Brahms, Debussy , Whitacre , Morley , Hiller and others)

Compositions (selection)

Spiritual a cappella choir

• Crucifixus (2002)
• Allelluja (2002)
• We Believe in One God (2004)
• Ave maris stella (2004)
• Ave Maria (2007)
• Alleluja (2009)

Secular a cappella choir

• 6 Mörike settings (2003/04)
• Angel Triptych (2005/2006)
• Notabene (2008)

Numerous songs and chorals

• Folk songs by Friedrich Silcher

Symphonic

• On the fragment and the attempt to complete the 3rd movement of Schubert's “Unfinished” Symphony in B minor, D 759. In: Schubert: Perspektiven 4 (2004), pp. 187–219 (the score of Hiller's version is here (p. 199 –219) completely reproduced).

Others

• Organization of the concert series New Music in Discussion Tübingen
• Conversation concerts with Helmut Lachenmann (2003), Nikolaus A. Huber (2004), Adriana Hölszky (2005), Younghi Pagh-Paan (2006), Mathias Spahlinger (2007), Wolfgang Rihm (2008), Achim Bornhöft (2008), Annette Schlünz (2009)

Web links

• Works by and about Tobias Hiller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tobias Hiller on the website of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tübingen University Music Director Tobias Hiller had a fatal accident. ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the University of Tübingen from July 5, 2010, accessed: July 7, 2010. 
2. ^ The Tübingen University Music Director had an accident on Sunday in Überlingen. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt from July 5, 2010, accessed: July 5, 2010.
3. ↑ Tobias Hiller had a fatal accident. In: Reutlinger Generalanzeiger of July 5, 2010, accessed: July 5, 2010.