Nicolaus A. Huber

*1939, Passau

"Huber's concentration on the periphery of what generally seems normal or natural, and thus harmless, in the treatment of musical material lets him accede to music alongside which a space for utopias and speculative thought has been cleared: a stance that makes him one of the few guarantors for progress in music."

Ulrich Müller, Hessischer Rundfunk
Awards
1969 · Cultural Prize for Music of the City of Munich
1970 · Composition Prize of Darmstadt
1988 · Berlin Advancement Prize for Music
2007 · Gerda und Günter Bialas Prize of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
Memberships
Since 1992/93 · Akademien der Künste in Berlin and Leipzig
Since 2019 · Honorary member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
Performances at selected festivals
Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival d'Automne, Paris Biennale di Venezia Warsaw Autumn Holland Festival, Amsterdam Musica, Strasbourg Wien Modern Witten – Tage für neue Kammermusik Musikbiennale Berlin
Biography
1939
Born in Passau on 15 December
1956
First public appearance as composer and organist
1958–1962
Studies at the Munich Musikhochschule: piano (with Oscar Koebel) and music education
1962/63
Studies composition in Munich with Franz Xaver Lehner
1962–1964
Junior teacher
1964–1967
Further composition studies with Günter Bialas
1965/66
Works at Munich's electronic studio with Josef Anton Riedl
1967
Composition course with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt ("Ensemble")
1967/68
Composition studies with Luigi Nono in Venice
1969
Cultural Prize for Music of the City of Munich; lectureship in music theory and analysis at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen
1969–1971
Member of Josef Anton Riedl's ensemble
1970
Composition Prize of Darmstadt
1971
Fellowship for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1971–1974
Vice President of the GNM (German section of the International Society of Contemporary Music)
1974–2004
Professor of composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen
1975–1980
Collaboration with Peter Maiwald and a free theater group: tours with political revues through West Germany, appearances at mass rallies, in pubs and tents
1976
Development of the conceptual "rhythm composition"
1988
Lecturer at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik; Berlin Advancement Prize for Music; introduction of "shrugs" into music (in the orchestral work Go ahead)
since 1992/93
Member of the Akademien der Künste in Berlin and Leipzig
2007
Gerda und Günter Bialas Prize of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
since 2019
Honorary member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste