Walter Hilgers
Walter Hilgers (* 1959 in Stolberg / Rhineland ) is a German conductor and tuba player .
Life
Walter Hilgers received his instrumental training in the subjects tuba, double bass and piano at the University of Music and Dance Cologne in Aachen. Engagements as a tuba player have taken him to the Düsseldorf Symphony , the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra , the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra , the Bayreuth Festival orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic . He played a. a. under Herbert von Karajan , Lorin Maazel , Claudio Abbado , Daniel Barenboim , Zubin Mehta , Andre Previn , Pierre Boulez , Georg Solti , James Levine , Seiji Ozawa , Riccardo Muti , Bernard Haitink and Günter Wand .
From 1984 to 2007 he was a founding member of the German Brass ensemble.
Hilgers began teaching in 1978 and has since taught at the music academies in Düsseldorf, Aachen and Lübeck, and from 1989 to 1995 as professor for tuba and brass chamber music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater . In 1995 he was appointed to the Liszt School of Music in Weimar, where he is a professor for chamber wind music .
From 2007 to 2014 Walter Hilgers was Principal Guest Conductor of the Banat Philharmonic in Timișoara , Romania, and from 2017 to 2020 he was Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Santa Fe in Argentina. Since 2016, Walter Hilgers has been permanent guest conductor and honorary artistic director of the “Paul Constantinescu” Philharmonic in Ploieşti, Romania . He was guest conductor of the Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra , Uruguay, the Montevideo SODRE Symphony Orchestra, the Buenos Aires National Orchestra, Argentina, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Teatro Argentino in La Plata, the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra , Colombia, the Bucharest Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Bucharest Radio Symphony Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic Bucharest, the Košice State Philharmonic , the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Academic Chapel, the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt, the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Mannheim National Theater Orchestra .
He has also conducted chamber concerts by the Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich, the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Mecklenburg State Orchestra Schwerin, the Philharmonic Orchestra Qatar, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Valencia.
Web links
- Works by and about Walter Hilgers in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Walter Hilgers
- Portrait on the pages of the Institute for Wind Instruments and Percussion at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music Weimar
- Walter Hilgers at the classic label Genuin
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hilgers, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and tuba player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stolberg / Rhineland |