Piano trio
Plus lucis · Op. 35
Violin, cello and piano. Four movements exploring energy, sound and musical development.
Alfred Huber
Composer
Biography
Born in Linz in 1962, Alfred Huber brings together music, medicine and social questions in his creative work. He studied composition with Gunter Waldek and Herbert Willi and trained as a neurosurgeon. His output spans chamber music, orchestral works and music theatre.
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Born in Linz in 1962, Alfred Huber brings together music, medicine and social questions in his creative work. He studied composition with Gunter Waldek and Herbert Willi and trained as a neurosurgeon. His output spans chamber music, orchestral works and music theatre.
He has lived in the Allgäu region of Germany since 1996 and received the Richard Wagner Prize in Vorarlberg in 1999. His compositions range from works for solo instruments to symphonic music.
His music has been performed at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Enoarmonie in Cividale, Slowind in Ljubljana, Suoni riflessi in Florence, the Europäische Wochen Passau and the Vienna Musikverein.
Collaborators include Andrea Rucli, Dan Zhu, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Othmar Müller, Katharina Gross, Niek de Groot, Catherine Dubosc, the Artis Quartet Vienna, the Enesco Quartet Paris, Slowind, Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto, Capella Istropolitana and the Wiener Concert-Verein, with conductors including James Judd, Alicja Mounk, Philippe Entremont, Lorenzo Viotti and Christoph Campestrini. His works have been broadcast by ORF, RAI, Bayern 4 Klassik, WDR and SWR 2.
A founding member of the Internationaler Konzertverein Bodensee, Huber also founded Zeitklänge e.V. in Kempten and served as its first chairman. Since 2002 he has organised a chamber music series in Wengen, Allgäu. The Zeitklänge festival “Emotion and Meaning in Music” received support from the Bavarian Cultural Fund in 2009.
He was composer in residence at the Europäische Wochen Passau in 2012, at the Wörthersee Classics in 2014 and with the Wiener Concert-Verein in 2014–2015. The album “Duos for Violin & Double Bass” was nominated for the 2019 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).
He has served on the jury of the Stefanie Hohl Competition at mdw Vienna (2024) and the Heinrich Schiff Competition at mdw.
Listen
Sonata
Impossibile · Op. 20
Cello, piano and percussion. Three movements in which music and poetry meet.
Duo
(Re)actio · Op. 18
Violin and double bass. Two string instruments, two perspectives and a shared musical space.
Concerto
Enigma · Op. 23
Violin and chamber orchestra. Excerpts from the second and third movements.
PI, Op. 32 – Sonata for violin and piano · Listen at Audite ↗
Works
From the dialogue of two instruments to large-scale orchestral music.
Catalogue by instrumentation
Chamber music
- 4 Stücke · Op. 1 — Four pieces for solo violin after texts by Ingeborg Bachmann
- Notte e giorno faticar · Op. 2 — String quartet movement
- 2 Chorstücke · Op. 3 — Two pieces for four-part choir on texts by Ingeborg Bachmann and Salvatore Quasimodo
- Op. 4 — Brass quintet
- Hommage a Bartók · Op. 5 — Two piano pieces
- Op. 6 — Wind quintet
- Eine Nachtmusik · Op. 10 — String quintet with soprano
- 4 Lieder · Op. 12 — Four songs for soprano and piano on texts by François Villon, adapted by Paul Zech
- Intermède · Op. 13 — Sonata for viola and piano
- Op. 14 — String Quartet No. 2
- (Re)actio · Op. 18 — Duo for violin and double bass
- Cognition II · Op. 19 — Wind quintet and piano
- Impossibile · Op. 20 — Sonata for cello, piano and percussion
- Enigma II · Op. 24 — Study for organ, violin and percussion
- Contrattempo · Op. 25 — Violin and organ
- Dioscouroi I · Op. 26a — Piano sextet version of Op. 26
- PHI · Op. 27 — Sonata for double bass and piano
- Angekommen · Op. 28 — Thirteen pieces for guitar, double bass and narrator on texts by Reiner Kunze
- As time · Op. 29 — Fantasy for piano, marimba and percussion
- Ver sacrum · Op. 30 — String Quartet No. 3
- PI · Op. 32 — Sonata for violin and piano
- Plus lucis · Op. 35 — Piano trio
- Incubus · Op. 36 — Fantasy for violin, piano and electronics
- Haffner · Op. 37 — Suite for solo violin and percussion ensemble
- Ich grolle nicht · Op. 38 — Trio for violin, double bass and percussion
- Op. 41 — Sonatina for solo violin
- Passatempo · Op. 42 — Recorder quartet
Orchestral works
- Miserere · Op. 7 — Trumpet and chamber orchestra
- Der Schlaf der Vernunft gebiert Ungeheuer · Op. 8 — Concerto for orchestra
- Primus inter pares · Op. 15 — Viola and chamber orchestra
- Vychod · Op. 21 — Symphony orchestra, choir and soloists
- Forelle surprise · Op. 22 — Chamber orchestra and horn
- Enigma I · Op. 23 — Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra
- Dioskouroi · Op. 26 — Concerto for piano and string orchestra
- -Ktur · Op. 31 — Solo violin and string orchestra
- Faustus · Op. 33 — Concerto for string orchestra, organ and timpani
- iDu · Op. 34 — Concerto for two double basses and chamber orchestra
- Resistenza · Op. 39 — Symphony No. 1 for large orchestra
- A.E.I.O.U. · Op. 40 — Rondo for chamber orchestra, percussion and organ
Dance theatre
- Empfänger verzogen · Op. 16 — Suite for clarinet, marimba and percussion
Symphony No. 1 · Op. 39
Resistenza – Music and Film
A three-movement symphony for large orchestra meets an animated film. Conceived as a projection behind the orchestra, the images offer another way into the work.
Work details in German → · Trailer and film project ↗
Current composition
Artes liberales, Op. 43 – a septet for strings, clarinet, horn and bassoon.
Recordings
Recordings of chamber and orchestral music.
Gramola · 2022
A New Night Music
Featuring Incubus, Op. 36, with Elena Denisova and Alexej Kornienko.
CD and details ↗
Audite · 2018
Duos for Violin & Double Bass
Featuring (Re)actio, Op. 18, with Elina Vähälä and Niek de Groot.
CD and details ↗Concerts
Upcoming performance
Bank Austria Salon, Vienna
Plus lucis, Op. 35 – piano trio. Performed by the Lyatoschinsky Trio.
Selected past performances
4 May 2025
Brucknerhaus Linz
World premiere of A.E.I.O.U., Op. 40, a rondo for chamber orchestra, percussion and organ. Festival Sinfonietta conducted by Christoph Campestrini.
26 November 2022
Landesmuseum Vorarlberg, Bregenz
“Ich grolle nicht”, Op. 38, and “Ver sacrum”, String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30. Eszter Haffner, Benedikt Huber, Kristof Hrastnik and the Artis Quartet Vienna.
1 May 2022
Kleiner Sendesaal des NDR
(Re)actio, Op. 18. Laura Hildebradt and Agnieszka Detko, in a concert of the Josef Joachim Academy.
23 July 2021
Landesmuseum Vorarlberg, Bregenz
Cognition II, Op. 19, performed by the Wiener Concert-Verein.
