Walter Hilgers

Walter Hilgers (born 1959 in Stolberg, Germany) is a German tuba player. He performs worldwide as orchestral musician, soloist, academic music teacher, arranger and conductor.

Contents

• Interview with walter hilgers part 1
• Interview with walter hilgers part 2
• Studies
• Musical career
• Teaching
• Conducting
• References

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

1979 – 2007 brass ensemble German Brass

1991 – 1995 NDR Symphony Orchestra

2005 – 2007 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Vienna State Opera

Teaching

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

Conducting

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, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic State Orchestra Montevideo, Europe festival orchestra