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Rising Star: Eric Huebner

- Bachelor and Master of Music, The Juilliard School
Eric Huebner, pianist
"a firm sense of melody and shape...a startling decisiveness"
- Paul Griffiths, The New York Times

  • Member of the award-winning ensemble Antares
  • Winner, the Robert Beaser Piano Concert Competition at The Juilliard School
  • Frequent solo appearances with the Riverside Symphony, the Redlands Symphony and the Inland Empire Symphony
  • Featured on major TV and radio stations including PBS, the BBC (UK) and KMZT (Los Angeles)
 
 

Pianist Eric Huebner, a native of Los Angeles, has drawn world-wide acclaim for his performances of new and traditional music. Recently hailed as "...an up-\ and-comer on the New York new-music scene," by New Yorker magazine, Mr. Huebner has twice been awarded the Stipendpreis from the "International Summer Cours\ es for New Music" in Darmstadt, Germany and is a member of the award winning ensemble, Antares.

Since his professional debut with The Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 17 he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and South Ameri\ ca. In February 1998, he performed the Robert Beaser piano concerto with The Juilliard Symphony under the direction of David Loebel at Lincoln Center's Alic\ e Tully Hall and has also appeared as soloist with The Juilliard Orchestra and The New Juilliard Ensemble.

An active member of many New York based new music ensembles, Eric has appeared with Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso, ISCM Chamber Players, Washington Squ\ are Chamber Players, Continuum, New York New Music Ensemble and the New Juilliard Ensemble. Eric has appeared numerous times on the Museum of Modern Art's S\ ummergarden Festival in addition to performances at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt in 1996 and 1998, Carnegie Hall's Meet the C\ omposer, at June in Buffalo and on Sunday's Live at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Bing Theater.

He has collaborated with the Parson's Dance Company and the dancer/ choreographer Maureen Fleming. His performances have been nationally televised on PBS an\ d heard on radio station KMZT in Los Angeles and the BBC. He can be heard on the recent Col Legno records release entitled Darmstadt '98. Recent performance\ s include two appearances at the Rock Hotel Pianofest in New York City and performances in North Carolina, California and New York with Antares.

Eric holds a Bachelors and Masters of Music degree from The Juilliard School in New York where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. He is currently on the facu\ lty at Wesleyan University and at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey.


  - Eric at the recording session -

 
(Photos by James M. Steeber)