Achim Holub
| Achim Holub | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 51) Graz |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Education | Akademisches Gymnasium Graz |
| Alma mater | Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Mozarteum Salzburg, Accademia Chigiana Siena |
| Occupation | Conductor |
| Website | http://www.achimholub.com |
Achim Holub (born 1966 in Graz) is an Austrian conductor.
Born in the Styrian capital of Graz, his first musical experiences came at a very early age through his mother's, Sofia Holub's, Jazz band. His father Ignaz Eduard Holub was a highly successful, internationally active architect who had close family relations to the famous American writer Arthur Miller (Achim Holub's half-sister Doris stayed for one year with the Miller's at their home in New York State during the 1960s.)
He received his first piano tuition at the age of six, and decided, after initially being extremely attached to Jazz, to become a professional conductor at the age of twelve. With fourteen he became a student of Alois. J. Hochstrasser, the then music director of the Graz Symphony Orchestra, at the Johann-Joseph-Fux-Konservatorium des Landes Steiermark.
In 1984 he became, as one of the youngest full-time conducting students in history, a student of Milan Horvat at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Among his other teachers were Andrzej Dobrowolski and Georg Friedrich Haas (Music Theory), as well as Wolfgang Bozic (Opera).
He then continued his education with Michael Gielen at Mozarteum University Salzburg, Ferdinand Leitner at Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena and Hiroyuki Iwaki and Edo de Waart at the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra International Conducting Masterclass in Hilversum and Amsterdam.
In 1991 Sir John Eliot Gardiner offered him, after a selection process which involved 60 conductors conducting the English Baroque Soloists at auditions in Stuttgart and Berlin, active participation at his conducting masterclass featuring operas by Mozart at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart. Among the other selected participants were Ilan Volkov and Bernard Labadie.
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