Christine Hu

born in Vienna | studied with Prof. Heinrich Schiff in Vienna, Prof. Thomas Demenga in Basel and Prof. Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich | chamber music studies with Prof. Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), baroque cello with M. Zeller | scholarships Villa Musica, Karajan Centrum Vienna and Thyll-Dürr Foundation | extra-player Basel chamber orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich | 01-06/2013 principal cellist Mozarteum-Orchestra Salzburg, Austria | 2013/14 member of Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Switzerland | since 2016 member of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg | played the "Kermadec-Bläss" 1698 by A. Stradivarius, a generous loan of the Stradivari foundation Habsireutinger and currently a cello by an anonymus master | influenced by two cultures, (Taiwanese roots) and bilingual c