When and where was your first concert with the MCO? In 2002, CD-recording of “French Arias“ with Magdalena Kožená in Paris.
What do you need to feel at home whilst on tour? A big and quiet hotel room with an open view into the green. Free WiFi.
Can you tell us something about your instrument? You have to really love the horn to enjoy playing it. And know that this love has its very own price.
If you could play another instrument what would it be? Organ. Sight-reading level...
What would you do if you weren't a musician? I would like to do something meaningful.
BIOGRAPHY Sebastian Posch was born in 1978 in Berlin and began his musical education at the age of five. He started to learn the violin, before he received his first horn lessons from Siegfried Schergaut at the age of eleven.
From 1993 to 1997, Sebastian was an undergraduate student at the Julius Stern Institute of the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, with Professor Sebastian Weigle. He began his university studies in 1998 with Prof. Weigle, and continued his studies with the help of a fellowship with Prof. Froydis Ree Wekre in Oslo. The year after, he joined the studio of Prof. Christian-Friedrich Dallmann at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. Sebastian Posch was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin from 2001 to 2002, and in 2002 won a job at the Staatskapelle Berlin.
Alongside his orchestral and teaching career Sebastian is a dedicated chamber musician and performs regularly in various chamber music groups with his colleagues from the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of which he has been a member since 2008.
Sebastian Posch served as a mentor in the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin and has held a lecturer position at the University of Arts, Berlin, since 2007. He has won two first prizes at the German national competition Jugend musiziert for his solo performances, and in 1999 won third place at the International Horn Competition in Starns, Austria. He has also been soloist with the former Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder, the orchestra of the University of Arts, Berlin, the Landesjugendsinfonieorchester Brandenburg, the Academic Orchestra Berlin, the Philharmonic Theatre Orchestra of Altenburg-Gera, the Junge Sinfonie Berlin and the Kammerakademie Berlin.
In the 2008/09 season, he performed Joseph Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 1 and György Ligeti’s Horn Trio with the Ensemble Preussens Hofmusik in the Apollo-Saal of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.
