Elias Samuel Rodehorst was born in 1997 in Hannover, Germany, and started to play the Tuba at the age of twelve. He had already studied the piano for some time and prior to Tuba played the Euphonium for two years in his music class in school.

After his Abitur in 2016 he went on a gap-year of Work & Travel where he worked with Aboriginal Kids at the Kormilda College in Darwin, Australia, and later on an apple farm in Napier, New Zealand. During his time abroad he realised how important music is for him and how he searched for ways to express himself through every instrument he could get his hands on.

He returned back to Germany in 2017 and started to study mechanical engineering at the Hochschule Hannover, but quickly decided to move forward with preparing for the auditions at multiple musical Colleges for the following year, which he all passed in 2018 and decided to stay in Hannover with Prof. Björn-Larsen to start his studies in the teaching degree with Tuba as his main Instrument. He also had lessons in singing and piano for the following two years.

However his progress on the tuba was so promising and rapid that in 2020 he chose to change into the artistic bachelor degree to fully concentrate on the Tuba. It didnt take long for him to win his first audition in November of 2021 for a spot in the academy of the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Vikentios Gionanidis as his mentor, which he started in January of 2022.

In February of the following year 2023 he was able to win the audition for the Karajan-Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, where he started his studies under Alexander von Puttkamer in April of 2023.

Then in August of 2024 he returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin to start his trial as a full member of the orchestra.

Since his start in Berlin he was able to play with great conductors like Kirill Petrenko, Simone Young, Zubin Mehta and Andris Nelsons and with great orchestras like the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the HR-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, the Staatsorchester Hannover and the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin.