biography

Paul Hübner has studied trumpet with Malte Burba and Mike Svoboda in Mainz and Basel. 2009/10 he was a stipendiary of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt.

As an interpreter and performer he is notably devoted to new and experimental music and gives concerts in Germany and abroad, as a soloist and in different smaller or bigger formations, amongst them the Ensemble Modern, BR Symphony Orchestra, oh-Ton-Ensemble, l'art pour l'art, ensemble phoenix as well as his own formations windenergie and MAM.manufaktur fuer aktuelle musik. He was invited at the Kunstfest Weimar, at the Festival Rümlingen, at the Tage für Neue Musik Darmstadt, at the Warsaw Autumn, sounds new and the Musica Viva Festival in Munich.
He participated several times 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. Paul was a participant of the Lucerne Festival Academy 2008 and 2011 under the artistic direction of Pierre Boulez.
The intensive cooperation with composers to contribute to new works for the instrument is also part of his activity, as well as the exploration of new sounds and formal concepts in own compositions and improvisations.

Paul is prize winner in different national and international competitions, amongst them the International Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music in Cracow, and prize winner of the Stockhausen Courses in 2010. He also is a stipendiary of the ZIRP (cultural initiative of Rhineland-Palatinate).