Moritz Tunn

Moritz Tunn was born in Berlin in 1999. At the age of four, he began taking cello lessons, later learning to play the piano. At the age of eleven, he switched to the double bass and was initially taught by Alexander Adelmann. He studied double bass in the class of Prof. Frithjof-Martin Grabner at the University of Music and Theater Leipzig and from 2018-2024 at the University of Music Nuremberg, where he was taught by Prof. Dorin Marc and Prof. Michail-Pavlos Semsis. He received further inspiration in master classes from Stanislav Anischenko, Günter Klaus, Janne Saksala, and others.

He gained his first orchestral experience with the German String Philharmonic, the State and Federal Youth Orchestras, the Young German Philharmonic, and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

During his studies, he was an academician at the Giuseppe Sinopoli Academy and the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, where Matthew Mc Donald was his mentor.

Today, he is a welcome guest with numerous top orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin, and the symphony orchestras of WDR and Bayerischer Rundfunk. 

Moritz is a prize winner of the International Johann Matthias Sperger Competition and the International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen.

He received support from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation.

Since 2024, he has been playing as deputy principal double bassist in the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden.