Gregor Huebner | Gregor Hübner the person

Born in Stuttgart in 1967, Gregor Huebner began studying piano and violin at the age of six. In 1994 he moved to New York to earn his MA degree in jazz piano/composition from Manhattan School of Music and was bestowed with a "President’s Award".Gregor Hübner

As a member of "Tango Five", a group founded in 1985, he performed at the World Exhibitions in Sevilla 1992 and Hannover 2000, the Olympic Games in Athens 2004,as well as Tango Festivals in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in 1998.From 1995 - 1999 he was a member of "Philharmonia Virtuosi", the Chamber Orchestra of the Metropolitan Museum.

Since 1996 he collaborates with Richie Beirach. His latest recording with Beirach/Huebner/Mraz, "Round about Monteverdi" was released in March 2003. Their previous recordings "Round About Frederik Mompou"(nominated for the Latin Grammy 2002), released in September 2001, and "Round About Bartok", released in March 2000 by the ACT company, were enthusiastically acclaimed by the critics. The latest CD of the Duo Beirach/Huebner, “Duality” was released in 2007 on the label Niveau records.

In the last years Gregor Huebner has appeared on Jazz festivals in Kork (Ireland), Tiblisi (Georgia), Montreux, New York (JVC, Bell Atlantic),Hollywood Bowl LA (Tango Festival) Stuttgart (Jazz Open) and Porto (Portugal). He performed at Carnegie Hall, the Apollo Theater, the Berlin Philharmonie. Frauenkirche in Dresden, Gewandhaus Leipzig and traveled to Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia, Columbia, Mexico, Hawaii, Georgia and Spain.

Since 1997 he has worked with Johnny Almendra’s “Los Jovenes del Barrio”, “Eye Contact” and “Son Radical” and played with Randy Brecker, John Patitucci, Billy Hart, Mark Feldman and the Absolut Ensemble. He recorded with Joe Zawinul and Diane Reeves and is with the Sirius String Quartet and his own NY-NRG Quartet a important part of the New York music scene.

In September 1997 he recorded two of his compositions (“New York Stories and In Memoriam Bela”) with Richie Beirach and the chamber orchestra “Philharmonia Virtuosi”, released by Mediaphon. “New York Stories” was premiered in April 2004 by the “Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra” and “In Memoriam Bela” is also featured on a CD of the “Deutschen Musikrat”: New Music in Jazz in the collection Music in Germany from 1950-2000 with Sony/BMG. His latest works are “Bach21”, commissioned by the Intentional Bachakademie in Stuttgart, the cello concerto op31 commissioned by the Landesakademie Ochsenhausen, Mayim Mayim a dance production of the theater in Fürth and his string quartet “NYC” premiered at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. In 2009 he scored the movie “Bergwehen” for the German movie channel ZDF together with Gerd Baumann. New Commissions are “Drums and Dance - Rituale” for the Grand Theatre Luxemburg and a mess for Schumann for the  Musikfest Stuttgart 2010.

After “Panonien” and "Januschke's time" he produced in 2007 the CD “NY-NRG Quartet” (Niveau Records) and “In Between” with the Sirius String Quartet.
In 2009 he released "Exercises, Etudes and Concert Pieces" with Advanced Music und Eric Carle's "Ich habe die Geige klingen sehen" at the Gerstenberg Verlag. In the same year he published his orchestra compositions at Norsk Musikvorlag.                           
In 1998 he received the Jazz award of the State Baden-Württemberg.

  

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