Jan-Niklas Siebert

Jan-Niklas Siebert was born in Neuss in 1988 and grew up in a musical family. He began his music education at the age of six, first learning to play the trumpet and piano. Two years later he moved from trumpet to horn. His father, a horn player with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, became his first horn teacher. From 2001 to 2007 he gathered orchestral experience as a member of the symphony orchestra of his music school, the State Youth Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. In 2005 he enrolled as a junior student at the Cologne Music Academy, where Paul van Zelm was his teacher; he also became a full-time student there later. In August 2009 he joined the academy of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. Since March 2011 Jan-Niklas Siebert has been a member of the horn section of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. In 2013 he received the Eduard Söring Prize of the Foundation for the Support of the Hamburg State Opera.