Simon Höfele

Brief profile

Simon Höfele captivates his audience with his skill, charisma and approachability. He has already appeared as a soloist with some of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Shanghai Philharmonic and the Bern Symphony Orchestra.

Simon Höfele regularly ventures into realms that demand a spirit of musical exploration, coupled with virtuoso technical mastery and a willingness to push emotional boundaries – as, for example, on his album “Nobody knows” – a combination of three masterpieces from the modern repertoire by Christian Jost, Toshio Hosokawa and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In collaboration with his friend, the video artist Carlo Oppermann, he created a music video that showcases an innovative blend of AI-generated imagery and original footage. For the album “No clouds in Haraz”, he teamed up once again with Kaan Bulak, who incorporates and blends influences from the Middle East, elements of contemporary music and Berlin’s electronic soundscape into his compositions. Together with singer-songwriter Morea, he explored soul and pop sounds (released digitally).

In the 2025/26 season, he will make his debut with PhilZuid and the Tyrolean Symphony Orchestra Innsbruck. He will return to the Bochum Symphony Orchestra and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra, as well as to the Heidelberg Spring and Kissinger Summer festivals.

In 2023 and 2024, he hosted the podcast “KLASSIK CRUSH” on WDR 3, in which he spoke with young, inspiring musicians such as Philo Tsoungui, Louis Philippson and Diana Tishchenko.

Alongside his musical projects, Höfele is also involved in cultural policy and founded the association “Kunstverlust”, for which he photographed people who are actively committed to the preservation of art and culture.

He teaches as a visiting artist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and gives various masterclasses.

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