Tobias Grove
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Tobias Grove grew up in Heidelberg. After receiving his first lessons from Peter Laue and Michael Tkacz, he studied with Gerhard Dzwiza in Hamburg and Alois Posch in Vienna. He also joined master classes with Ludwig Streicher and Heiner Braun. Since 2003 Tobias Grove has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra; in 2011 he was appointed associate principal double bass. He is also a frequent guest of other orchestras, for example the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and as Principal Double Bass Player at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. Solo and chamber music performances regularly take him to almost all European countries. He is co-founder of the Ensemble Arabesques. Among others he works with Kolja Blacher, Brett Dean, Baiba Skride and, most recently, with the Philharmonic String Quartet of the Berlin Philharmonic. In his free time, he dedicates himself primarily to his family, outdoor sports and cooking.