Sebastian Posch

Sebastian Posch was born in Berlin and began his musical education at the age of five, initially on the violin. He received his first horn lessons at the age of eleven. He began his studies with Prof. Sebastian Weigle at the Berlin University of the Arts, continued on a scholarship with Prof. Froydis Ree Wekre in Oslo and finally switched to Prof. Christian-Friedrich Dallmann at the Berlin Academy of Music Hanns Eisler.

In 2001 he studied on a scholarship at the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin, and the following year he was hired as a horn player at the Staatskapelle Berlin, a position he holds until today.

Sebastian Posch was a multiple first prize winner at the national competition "Jugend musiziert" and in 1999 won third prize at the international horn competition in Stams/Austria. He has given concerts as a soloist with the former Frankfurt/Oder State Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Altenburg-Gera Theater, the Young Symphony Berlin, the Berlin Chamber Academy and, in 2018, with the Göttinger Symphoniker. In the Apollo Hall of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden he performed, accompanied by the Ensemble Preussens Hofmusik of the Staatskapelle Berlin, as a soloist with Joseph Haydn's Horn Concerto No. 1 and as a chamber musician with György Ligeti's Horn Trio, among others. In 2014 he was accompanied with Radovan Vlatkovich in the solo quartet of Robert Schumann's Concert Piece for 4 horns by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, of which he was also a member from 2008 to 2015.

As a mentor, he taught several times at the Orchestra Academy of the Staatskapelle Berlin and the MCO Academy. Since 2007 he has been a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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