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„Everyone decides intuitively on the instrument whose pitch and sound colour makes one’s inner string vibrate…“
As an acclaimed double bass soloist and chamber musician, Christine Hoock inspires audiences around the world with her concert performances and masterclasses. The fascinating possibilities of making music with the double bass, also as a soloist, are carried into concert halls by this native of Mainz with her typical ease and virtuosity.
The international prize-winner has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Aurora Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musicale di Portogruaro, Euro Music Festival and Academy, Schlossacademy Germany and at the Berlin and Salzburg Festivals, among others.
Her artistic partners include Benjamin Schmid, Enrico Bronzi, Winfried Rademacher, Martin Stegner, Ib Hausmann and DJ Umberto Echo.
Christine Hoock completed her studies in Frankfurt and Geneva, with Günter Klaus and Franco Petracchi respectively, with distinction.
A versatile virtuoso, Christine Hoock can also be heard in a wide variety of innovative constellations of jazz, electronic and world music. This is also reflected in her varied discography.
In 2021, Christine was honoured with a Special Recognition Award for Solo Performance by the International Society of Bassists.
Christine inspires many composers around the globe, who dedicate pieces to her. For example, she has composed solo works and concertos by Rabbih Abou-Khalil, Ralph Towner, Paul Chihara, Toshio Hosokawa and Arni Egilsson.
She regularly also arranges pieces for double bass ensemble herself, for example by Philip Glass, Georg Philipp Telemann, Johannes Sperger and Michel Corrette.
During her solo engagements with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and other top German orchestras, the artist has performed with conductors such as André Previn, Gary Bertini, Pinchas Zukerman, Sir Neville Marriner, Semyon Bychkov and Rudolf Barschai.
Christine Hoock holds a professorship for double bass at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
In addition to concert tours, masterclasses and jury work, Christine Hoock is active as a mentor in the international music scene. She is the president of the International J.M. Sperger- Society for Double Bass, as well as founder and artistic director of the International Rhodius Academy for Double Bass at Burg Namedy Castle.
Christine Hoock plays an English instrument by William Tarr from 1848.