Nabil Shehata / Double Bass

Nabil Shehata won several international competitions including the Julio Cardona Competition in Portugal and the Valentino Bucchi Competition in Rome. At the ARD Competition, Shehata received the first prize and the coveted audience award. In 2006, he was awarded the Praetorius Prize of the German State of Lower Saxony. In 2003, Daniel Barenboim brought Shehata to the Staatsoper Berlin as the first double bass soloist. One year later, he began his tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the same position. He has performed with distinguished musicians such as Daniel Barenboim and Thomas Quasthoff. Since fall 2007 Nabil Shehata has a professorship at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich. In the last four years, Shehata has turned to conducting. In May 2008 he conducted at the invitation of Gustavo Dudamel, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra in Caracas, with such success that he was invited again.