Moritz Huemer becomes Berliner Philharmoniker
The Austrian cellist Moritz Huemer, a graduate of Rafael Rosenfeld's class at the Basel Music Academy, has won an audition for a permanent position in the tutti section of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
According to information from the Liechtestein Symphony Orchestra, Moritz Huemer was born in Feldkirch (Austria) in 1999 and grew up in Liechtenstein. He received his first cello lessons at the age of five from Josef Hofer at the Liechtenstein Music School. From 2015 to 2018, he was a junior student in Rafael Rosenfeld's class at the Basel Music Academy and at the same time attended grammar school in Feldkirch, where he graduated in 2018.
After four years studying with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Franz Liszt School of Music in Weimar, he completed his bachelor's degree there in 2022. Since fall 2022, he has been studying with Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University of the Arts. Moritz Huemer has taken part in various masterclasses, including with David Geringas and Thomas Grossenbacher. He is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and regularly takes part in the intensive weeks there.
