biography

Paul Hübner, born in 1985 in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany, has played the trumpet since he was seven years old. He won several first prizes at the national youth competition of “Jugend Musiziert” and was a member of different youth orchestras, among them the Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Saxony and the European Orchestra Academy. Tours lead him to the European neighbour states and to China.

Since 2005, Paul has been studying trumpet at the Music Department of the University of Mainz with Prof. Malte Burba. In 2009/10, he is stipendiary of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

As an interpreter he is notably devoted to new and experimental music and gives concerts in Germany and abroad, as a soloist and in different chamber music formations. He was invited at the Kunstfest Weimar, at the Festival Rümlingen, at the Tage für Neue Musik Darmstadt and the Musica Viva Festival in Munich.

In 2007 he participated in the Ensemble Academy of Klangforum Wien and was a guest at the Festival Klangspuren Schwaz in the context of the International Ensemble Modern Academy under the guidance of Michael Gielen.
He is a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy 2008, conducted by Pierre Boulez.
The intensive cooperation with composers to contribute to new works for the instrument is also part of his activity, among them Adriana Hölszky, Carlos Sandoval or Moritz Eggert. He also explores new possibilities of soundings and techniques in own compositions

In 2007 Paul won a special award of the Music Department in Mainz for the interpretation of his own composition “säumte” for double-bell trumpet.
During the 11th International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow he was awarded a second prize as well as the Marek-Stachowski-Award for the best interpretation of a piece written by a Polish composer for his interpretation of Hanna Kulenty’s “Brass No. I for Double Bell Trumpet”.
In 2008 Paul is stipendiary of the ZIRP