Kontrabass

Thomas Hille

Thomas Hille was born in Deggendorf and received his first piano lessons at the age of five. At 16, he discovered his love for the double bass. In 2009, he began studying with Dorin Marc at the Nuremberg University of Music. In 2013, he was accepted into the Academy of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Thomas Hille has won prizes including the 2012 Johann Matthias Sperger International Competition, where he was awarded the Audience Prize as well as the prize for the best interpretation of a classical sonata. In 2014, he received the Cultural Promotion Prize of the city of Deggendorf. He has performed as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of the Nuremberg University of Music, the New Lusatian Philharmonic Orchestra and the State Orchestra of the Rhineland Philharmonic Orchestra Koblenz. Masterclasses with Božo Paradžik, Catalin Rotaru and Yasunori Kawahara rounded off his training. He was awarded his diploma with honours.

Thomas Hille has been principal double bass of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz orchestra since 2016. He also performs regularly with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Württemberg State Orchestra Stuttgart and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, among others. He is also a lecturer in the Swabian Youth Symphony Orchestra and has been teaching the double bass class at the Leopold Mozart Centre at the University of Augsburg since 2023.