Jan Polle

Jan Polle was born in Limburg in 1997. He first began taking horn lessons at the Limburg Music School at the age of eight. From October 2012 to September 2015 he was a junior student of Esa Tapani at the Frankfurt am Main Academy of Music and Performing Arts. There, he also began his bachelor studies in 2015. Jan Polle was a winner of the competition “Jugend musiziert” several times, including a prize at the federal level in 2012. He took master courses with Johannes Hinterholzer, the ensemble German Brass and Ensemble Modern (“epoch f”). From 2018 to 2020 Jan Polle was a member of the Kassel State Orchestra’s academy. He also gained professional experience as a substitute principal horn player at the State Orchestra of Lower Saxony in Hanover and elsewhere. Jan Polle has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2020 and has been deputy principal horn since 2022.