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After high school, Hub. Pittie (born in Geleen, 1950) studied at the conservatory in Maastricht, where he completed the studies of band conducting, school music and orchestra conducting. His teachers included Hubert Cardous, Martin Koekelkoren, Lucas Vis and Anton Kersjes. He also took courses in music pedagogy, choral conducting and music theoryin Salzburg, The Hague and Munich, where he got in contact with Sergiu Celibidache, who profoundly influenced his musical career.
He taught in primary schools, in secondary education and was a university teacher at the conservatory. Furthermore, he led an assistant conductor course at the music school in Beek (Limburg), where he was also director for several years.
As a conductor, he worked with various wind orchestras and choirs in South Limburg. He has conducted concerts in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia. From 1994, he was music director at the Collegium Musicum of RWTH Aachen University. He has performed as guest conductor at the Royal Navy Band, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, the Serenade Chamber Orchestra from Yerevan (Armenia), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Bocholtz, the Heerlen Oratoriumvereniging, the Royal Male Choir Cecilia Vaals and the Mastreechter Staar.
The highlights of his musical career include winning the national championship for concert bands in 1st division in 1985 during the World Music Competition in Kerkrade, the performances of Mahler's 2nd Symphony in 2000 and his farewell concert with an impressive performance of Tippett's “A Child of Our Time” in 2015.
For his musical projects, he often chose rarely or never heard works by Gotkovsky, Kodály, Niël, Koshaba, Abdokov and Nelhybel.
After his retirement in 2015, he devoted himself as a collaborator to the re-edition of Alice Bailey's books on New Psychology.
Hub. Pittie is married and together with his wife Elly he has 5 children and 9 grandchildren, some of whom are active in the field of music and theater.
Musical direction
| Years | Person | Ensemble |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 - 1955 | Wolfgang Drees | Orchestra |
| 1955 - 1956 | Gustav Fülleborn | Orchestra |
| 1956 - 1988 | Rudolf Bremen | Choir und Orchestra |
| 1988 - 1994 | Fritz ter Wey | Choir und Orchestra |
| 1994 - 2015 | Hub. Pittie | Choir und Orchestra |
| 2015 - 2017 | Ernst von Marschall | Choir und Orchestra |
| 2017 - 2019 | Raimund Laufen | Choir und Orchestra |
| 2019 | Judith Mohr | Chamber Choir |
| since 2019 | Tobias Haussig | Choir, Orchestra, and Chamber Choir (since 2022) |
Academic direction
| Year | Person | Ensemble |
|---|---|---|
| 1952 - 1964 | Prof. Helmuth Schepp | Orchestra |
| 1956 - 1980 | Prof. Herbert Döring | Choir |
| 1964 - 1965 | Prof. Walter Biemel | Orchestra |
| 1965 - 1981 | Prof. Friedrich Schlögl | Orchestra |
| 1980 - 1996 | Prof. Helmut Faissner | Choir |
| 1981 - 1999 | Prof. Klaus Möller | Orchestra |
| 1996 - 2014 | Prof. Edmund Haberstroh | Choir |
| 1999 - 2014 | Prof. Edmund Haberstroh | Choir and Orchestra |
| since 2014 | Prof. Thomas Gries | Choir and Orchestra |
Academic management
| Year | Person | Ensemble |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-2017 | Michael Decius | Choir and orchestra |
| 2017-2018 | Dr. Markus Beckers | Choir and orchestra |
| since 2018 | Moritz Kampmann | Choir and orchestra |
Student Management
| Year | Person | Ensemble |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 - 2017 | Moritz Kampmann | Choir |
| 2015 | Simon Koch | Orchestra |
| 2015 - 2017 | Clara Igisch | Orchestra |
| 2017 - 2020 | Younes Müller | Choir |
| 2017 - 2020 | Arne Balzer | Choir |
| 2017 - 2018 | Miriam Prume | Orchestra |
| 2017 - 2018 | Jakob Stubenrauch | Orchestra |
| 2018 - 2020 | Clara Evers | Orchestra |
| 2018 - 2020 | Lars Wollert | Orchestra |
| 2020 - 2022 | Alexandra Bach | Orchestra |
| 2020 - 2022 | Colin Klein | Orchestra |
| since 2020 | Daniel Brockmann | Choir |
| since 2020 | Annika Wolf | Choir |
| since 2022 | Irene Müller | Orchestra |
| since 2022 | Johannes Zipfel | Orchestra |
Rehearsal Assistance
| Year | Person | Ensemble and role |
|---|---|---|
| since 2009 | Maria Regina Heyne | Vocal choach, choire |
| 2018 | Maximilian Friedrich | Choir direction |
| 2018–2019 | Julio G. Vico | Orchestra conductor |
| 2015–2019 | Ahreum Jo | Répétiteur choir |
| since 2019 | Julio Domingo Escamilla | Substitute orchestra conductor |
| since 2019 | Ingeborg Stijnen | Substitute choir conductor |
| 2020–2022 | Junichiro Watahiki | Répétiteur choir |
| since 2022 | Philipp Vitkov | Répétiteur choir, Substitute orchestra conductor |