Stefan Hussong

Stefan Hussong was born in Koellerbach an der Saar in Germany. He won first prize at the 1983 International Hugo Herrmann Competition and at the 1987 International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition for Contemporary Music. In 1999 he was awarded the Echo Klassik Prize for best performer.
Stefan Hussong has given the premieres of more than 150 works dedicated to him, working closely with composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Keiko Harada, Adriana Hölszky, David Eagle, Nicolaus A. Huber, Elena Mendoza, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Toshio Hosokawa, Uroš Rojko and Klaus Huber.
He has recorded more than 40 CDs, many of which have won prizes. He has appeared in concert throughout Europe, in the USA, South America, Russia and throughout Asia, including at the Salzburg Festival, the Beethoven House in Bonn, the Suntory Festival in Tokyo, the Leipzig New Music Festival, the Munich Biennale, the Cologne Triennale, the Wien Modern Festival, the Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival.
He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, Ensemble intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, the Seoul Philharmonic, the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Harmonia Chamber Orchestra, the Tokyo Sinfonietta and the Tokyo Shin Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra.
Stefan Hussong has recorded for Denon, EMI, Wergo, Thorofon, Mode-records, col legno, Koch-Schwann and Ars Musici, with music from the Baroque to the present day.
He studied with Eugen Tschanun, Hugo Noth, Joseph Macerollo and Mayumi Miyata in Trossingen, Toronto and Tokyo and received scholarships from the D.A.A.D. Foundation, the German Scholarship Foundation, the Academy Solitude in Stuttgart and the Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg.
In 1989 he served as visiting professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Today he is professor of accordion and chamber music at the University of Music in Würzburg and since 1993 has been a professor at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.