Walter Hilgers

Walter Hilgers in 2013

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.

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

External links

• official website in English & German
• Guest Conductor with Romanian National Radio Orchestra of Bucharest, Romania Conducting the world premiere of the Holocaust music "Cries from Earth to Heaven"
• Young German Brass Soloists (Junge Deutsche Blechbläsersolisten)