Felix Krieger
*29 April 1973
Works by Felix Krieger
Biography
The conductor and composer Felix Krieger was born in Freiburg i. Br. and received his musical education at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and as a master student of Carlo Maria Giulini at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole/Italy.
He began his career as assistant to Claudio Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonic, and assisted Daniele Gatti at the Bayreuth Festival and Michael Gielen with the SWR Symphony Orchestra.
Since then, he has conducted numerous major orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the London Sinfonietta, the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Paris Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and has conducted productions at opera houses such as the Berlin State Opera, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Semperoper Dresden and the Opéra National de Paris.
He has been artistic director of the Berliner Operngruppe since 2010 and has since than conducted the ensemble in highly acclaimed opera discoveries at Berlin’s Konzerthaus, including the Berlin premieres of Verdi's Stiffelio, Puccini‘s Edgar and Mascagni‘s Iris and most recently in May 2023 the worldpremiere of Donizetti's Dalinda.
His complete recording of Mascagni‘s Iris (2021, Oehms Classics) received several nominations for the Opus Klassik award (including „Conductor of the Year“), for the prestigious Deutsche Schallplattenkritik award and the International Classical Music Awards 2022. In 2018 Sony Classical released his album The Art of Ensemble with London Sinfonietta and works by Spanish composer Benet Casablancas (*1956).
Felix Krieger first appeared publicly as a composer in 2015. His works were performed at the Festival Musica Nova "Gilberto Mendes" in Brazil and by the Ensemble UnitedBerlin at the Konzerthaus Berlin, among others.