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Achim Holub | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 57) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Education | Akademisches Gymnasium Graz |
| Alma mater | Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Mozarteum Salzburg Summer Academy, Accademia Chigiana Siena |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Website | http://www.achimholub.com |
Achim Holub (born 1966 in Graz) is an Austrian conductor.
Born in the Styrian capital of Graz, his first musical experiences came at an early age through his mother's, Sofia Holub's, Jazz band. His father Ignaz Eduard Holub was a highly successful, internationally active architect who had close family relations to the famous American writer Arthur Miller (Achim Holub's half-sister Doris stayed for one year with the Miller's at their home in New York State during the 1960s.)
He received his first piano tuition at the age of six, and decided, after initially being extremely attached to Jazz, to become a professional conductor at the age of twelve. At fourteen he became a student of Alois. J. Hochstrasser, the then music director of the Graz Symphony Orchestra, at the Johann-Joseph-Fux-Konservatorium des Landes Steiermark.
In 1984 he became a student of Milan Horvat at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Among his other teachers were Andrzej Dobrowolski and Georg Friedrich Haas (Music Theory), as well as Wolfgang Bozic (Opera).
He then continued his education with Michael Gielen at Mozarteum University Salzburg Summer Academy, Ferdinand Leitner at Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena and Hiroyuki Iwaki and Edo de Waart at the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Masterclass in Hilversum and Amsterdam.
In 1991 Sir John Eliot Gardiner offered him, after a selection process which involved 60 conductors conducting the English Baroque Soloists at auditions in Stuttgart and Berlin, active participation at his conducting masterclass featuring operas by Mozart at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart.[ citation needed ] Among the other selected participants were Ilan Volkov and Bernard Labadie. [ citation needed ]
In 1993 Sir Georg Solti invited him to a study visit at the Salzburg Festival.[ citation needed ]
In February 1993 he became Assistant Conductor with the NDR-Sinfonie Orchester in Hamburg for over two years.[ citation needed ] His first assignment was rehearsing Olivier Messiaen's "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum" for the opening concert of the 1993 Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.[ citation needed ]
From then on he worked as assistant conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic.[ citation needed ] Additionally, he was John Eliot Gardiner's assistant at numerous projects in Berlin, Hamburg, Lisbon, London and Vienna, mainly at recordings for Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, but also on tours, at concerts and opera performances.[ citation needed ]
During the following years, he has been conducting performances with orchestras in Europe, such as the English Baroque Soloists [ citation needed ], the now defunct Graz Symphony Orchestra [ citation needed ], the Danish National Symphony Orchestra [ citation needed ], the NDR-Sinfonieorchester [ citation needed ], the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra [ citation needed ], the Philharmonia Orchestra (at the Royal Festival Hall London)[ citation needed ], the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra Ljubljana[ citation needed ] and the Thuringian Philharmonic on a tour through Eastern Germany.[ citation needed ]
In 2002 he became artistic director of Graz Chamber Philharmonic with which he has been giving many concerts with works by Vivaldi, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn in Burgenland, Carinthia and Styria.
In 2005 he moved to London and in 2008 started collaborating with the Orpheus Sinfonia and Firebird, two orchestra projects under the patronage of Dame Judi Dench, performing with them at the most important venues in London and on a tour to Austria.
From 2010 onwards, he has been principal conductor of the London Classical Soloists, which has been performing many of the major classical and early romantic symphonic works, including the complete Beethoven symphonies, within the last years and is currently embarking on the complete Schumann and Brahms symphony cycles. [1]
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