Christine Hu
Christine Hu combines her Viennese roots with her Taiwanese heritage, making cultural balance her artistic strength. The cellist performs internationally as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician; she has played a Stradivarius cello and has been a key member of the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra since 2016.
About the artist
Cellist with roots in Taiwan
Christine Hu, born in 1985 in Vienna, studied with Tobias Kühne and Heinrich Schiff, with Thomas Demenga and Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet), and with Thomas Grossenbacher. She was a scholarship holder of the Karajan Foundation and the Thyll-Dürr Foundation. In 2013 she served as principal cellist of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, has performed regularly with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since 2014, and was a member of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.
Since winning the International Competition for String Trio in Munich in 2012, she has maintained an active concert career with the Trio Oreade. From 2017 to 2021, the trio performed on instruments by Antonio Stradivari, generously loaned by the Stradivari Foundation, and documented their work on several recordings.
Shaped by two cultures and raised bilingually—her parents are from Taiwan—Christine Hu regards the search for balance and communication as an essential part of her artistic identity. Since 2016 she has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
