conductor and composer
Biography:
Rupert Huber was born in the Upper Austrian Innviertel and completed his studies in conducting and composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
His musical activities are extremely diverse: he has worked as a conductor with various radio choirs and orchestras since 1983, and from 1990 to 2000 he was musical director of the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart. He has conducted numerous world premieres and is the founder of the Jani Christou Institute in Athens.
In addition to this activity, Rupert Huber, whose own works have been performed in Germany, Austria and England, developed a composition technique based on the digitization of the measurement of the degree of sonority. In addition, he is intensively involved with the music of the shamans in Nepal, where he also lives.
From 1980 to 1998 Rupert Huber was a lecturer at the Salzburg Mozarteum and from 1996 to 1998 held a professorship for choral conducting at the Music Academy in Graz. He led workshops on the subject of "musical impact research". Since 2002 he has been responsible for preparing the choirs for opera productions and concerts at the Salzburg Festival. In autumn 2004 he took over the direction of the WDR radio choir.
Albums:
Aftertaste – Rose Wormwood The Sick Man:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2012:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2010:
Christmas Matins – Christmas Matins:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2007 Vol. 1:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2007 Vol. 3:
Donaueschingen Music Days 2006 Vol. 2:
