Rupert Huber

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Rupert Huber was born in 1967 and lives in Vienna. He’s a freelance composer.

He integrates space and the electronic and/or psychological projection of musical or tonal content into his compositions. Such dimensional music that Rupert Huber has developed as a musical format is the basis of all his work. Music in this format has been commissioned by, among others, Wiener Festwochen(Private Exile, 2004), Centre Pompidou (Sonic Process, 2002) and Ars Electronica(Radiotopia, 2002).

Rupert Huber has not only implemented his ideas artistically; he has also applied them to music composed for film (Food Design, Berggasse 19), TV (C.S.I. Miami, Sex and the City) and radio (Signations for the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s Ö1 Kunstradio).

Tosca, the duo formed in 1994 by Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber, has released 4 CDs and 6 remix albums over the last 14 years, with total sales topping one million. In recent years, Tosca has performed in live shows in the USA, South America and Europe, including such prominent festivals as Coachella in Palm Springs and the Ars Electronica Festival. Tosca’s new double CD “No Hassle” was released worldwide in April 2009 by !k7 Records. In 2001, Tosca was honored with Austria’s Amadeus Music Award as best Pop/Rock group.

Piano music and sound installations in public spaces (www.ruperthuber.com/turmgesang; European Soundscapes, Salzburg, 2006) are among Rupert Huber’s main areas of interest. Radio music (Deutschlandradio, Kunstradio), music for media projects (Horizontal Radio, Ars Electronica 1995) and film music (Swimmers in the Desert, 2000) are the fields in which he does most of his creative work.

Rupert Huber studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He plays piano, synthesizer, guitar and bass. Since 1989, he has been producing his music in his own sound studio.