Gareth Lubbe, viola, vocals

Solo violist of the Gewandhaus Leipzig, Gareth has performed regularly with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra working with conductors such as Claudio Abaddo. As a soloist, he has performed with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra in Germany as well as various orchestras of South Africa, where he was born in 1976 and already appeared as violinist at the age of nine. and as a pianist at the age of sixteen with the South African Radio Orchestra.

As conductor he has worked with the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra.

As one of the most prominent overtone singers in the western world Gareth has appeared worldwide and in 2004 was invited with Hayden Chisholm  to perform at a renowned festival  in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia.

His solo overtone recordings in the Charterhouse Monastery in Plettere, Slovenia, were choosen by BBC as pick of the week. Together with Hayden Chisholm, he has been featured in numerous site-specific installations of Rebeccca Horn including the massive "Spiriti di Madreperla" in the main square of Naples in 2002.

Gareth is a passionate mountaineer and lover of open spaces.