Walter Hilgers

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Walter Hilgers ( born 1959 in Stolberg, Germany ) is one of the world's leading tuba players. He performs worldwide as orchestral musician, soloist, academic music teacher, arranger and conductor.

Studies:

1976 - 1978 at Rheinland State Institute of Music Aachen

Musical career:

1978 - 1981 Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra
1979 Bayreuth Festival
1981 - 1991 Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra
1982 - 1986 regular guest at Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
1987 - 1991 regular guest at NDR Symphony Orchestra
since 1979 brass ensemble German Brass
since 1991 NDR Symphony Orchestra
since 2005 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna State Opera

Teacher:

1978 - 1981 Robert Schumann Institute of Music in Düsseldorf
1989 - 1995 professor for tuba and chamber music at the Hamburg Institute of Fine Arts
since 1995 professor for tuba and chamber music at Franz Liszt academy of music in Weimar

Conductor / Director:

since 1995 ensemble Tritonus Wimares, founded by W. Hilgers. Members are soloists of the Staatskapelle Weimar
since 2000 Young German Brass Soloists ( Junge Deutsche Blechbläsersolisten )
guest conductor at Philharmonic State Orchestra Košice, Philharmonic Orchestra Zagreb, Philharmonic State Orchestra Montevideo, Europe festival orchestra