Moritz Tunn

Moritz Magnus Tunn was born in Berlin in 1999. At the age of four he received lessons on the violoncello, later he learned to play the piano. At the age of eleven he switched to the double bass and was initially taught by Alexander Adelmann. During this time, Moritz Tunn won prizes at the national competition Jugend musiziert, the Michelangelo Music Competition and gained his first orchestral experience with the Georg-Friedrich-Händel Gymnasium Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as the German String Philharmonic Orchestra and in the state and national youth orchestras.
After graduating from high school in 2017, he began artistic studies in the autumn of the same year in the class of Prof. Frithjof-Martin Grabner at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre. Since the winter semester 2018/19, he has been enrolled as a student at the Nuremberg University of Music, where he is taught by Prof. Dorin Marc and Prof. Michail-Pavlos Semsis.

He is currently a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester. Many concert tours have taken him throughout Germany as well as to Brazil, Taiwan, Russia, Denmark, Austria, France and Italy.
Moritz Tunn also appeared as a soloist with the Haydn Chamber Orchestra at the Gewandhaus Leipzig, where he played the Concerto in B minor by G. Bottesini.

He gained orchestral experience with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, among others. Since April 2022 Moritz Tunn is an academist in the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and is taught by Matthew McDonald. He is a prize-winner of the International Johann Matthias Sperger Competition for Double Bass 2022.
Moritz Tunn is sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation.