Born: Munich, Germany

The German conductor and former boy soprano, Markus Huber, first learned music and piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. He further studied conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. He was soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor from 1975 to 1982, working with conductors as Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Seiji Ozawa. He sings a beautiful duet with Kurt Equiluz in Bach's Cantata BWV 112 (der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt) conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

In 2003 Markus Huber was appointed as Director of the Westsächsischer Symphonieorchester.

Source: WioWorld Website, English translation by Marc Parisot
Contributed by Marc Parisot (April 2007)

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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BWV 111, BWV 112, BWV 115, BWV 116, BWV 119, BWV 120, BWV 121, BWV 122

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