Christine Hu

Christine Hu was born in Vienna in 1985. She studied with Tobias Kühne and Heinrich Schiff in Vienna, with Thomas Demenga and Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) in Basel as well as Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich. She attended master courses with Steven Isserlis and Miklós Perényi, among others. She received scholarships from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation and the Thyll-Dürr Foundation and was supported by Yehudi Menuhin’s foundation “Live Music Now” and Villa Musica. In 2013 she was interim section leader of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. She has performed regularly with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Camerata Bern and was a member of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne before becoming a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 2016. As the cellist of the trio oreade, Christine Hu has explored string trio literature extensively, winning the first prize at the International String Trio Competition in Munich in 2012 and making debuts at the Tonhalle Zurich in 2014 and at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad in 2016, among others. The trio’s debut CD/Blu-Ray was released in 2015 by bmn-medien. The trio oreade has been playing three instruments built by Antonio Stradivari since the autumn of 2017, generously loaned to them by the Stradivari Foundation. Having grown up bilingually and under the influence of two different cultures – her parents are originally from Taiwan – Christine Hu feels that the search for balance and intercession is an essential part of her artistic life.