Benedikt Huber
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Benedikt Huber was born in 1999 in Bregenz, Austria, and began his training on the double bass at the age of seven at the Music School in Wangen im Allgäu with Song Choi. At the age of 12, he entered the young students' program at the Folkwang University of the Arts. He commenced his bachelor studies at the same institution beginning in 2017, receiving instruction from such well-known teachers as Olivier Thierry, Pierre-Emmanuel de Maistre, Ömer Faruk Dede and Matthew McDonald. He is currently working on his master's degree at the Private University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (MUK) with Prof. Jan Georg Leser.
In 2010, Benedikt won the first prize at the International Double Bass Convention in Berlin, as well as the first prize at the Austrian national competition Jugend musiziert in 2013 and 2016. These led to a scholarship from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, which included an instrument on loan.
Benedikt Huber is also an aficionado of contemporary music, making his debut as a soloist in 2019 with the premiere performance of the Concerto for Two Contrabasses and Orchestra, "iDu", op. 34, by Alfred Huber with the Vienna Concert Association in the Brahms-Saal of the Vienna Musikverein. He has also performed Fury II by Rebecca Saunders, accompanied by the MUK-Ensemble, in the Musikverein,
Benedikt has also gathered orchestral experience in the Vorarlberg Symphony Orchestra and the Young German Philharmonic. He has been a member of the academy of the Essen Philharmonic and had a fixed-term appointment as a tutti player with the Graz Philharmonic. Since 2023, he has substituted regularly with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.