BIO
Felix Mildenberger has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Filarmonica Teatro Regio di Torino since 2021. A continued scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum, in 2021 he was added by the Deutscher Musikrat to the so-called “Maestros of Tomorrow”– a list of artists having proven long-standing artistic quality. A year before, he was the first conductor to receive the "Prix Young Artist of the Year" at the Festival der Nationen.
Graceful, versatile, and highly musical – these are just some of the characteristics that distinguish Felix Mildenberger as a conductor. Orchestras appreciate the deep seriousness of his approach to music and his great musicality. This includes the London Symphony Orchestra, where he conducted numerous concerts since winning the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in 2018 and served as “Assistant Conductor” to Sir Simon Rattle, François-Xavier Roth and Gianandrea Noseda among others.
Felix Mildenberger works with many orchestras on a national and international level. These include the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, DSO Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Staatskapelle Weimar, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder, Bremer Philharmoniker, Ensemble Modern, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Lille, Nagoya Philharmonic and others. He has collaborated with soloists such as Julia Fischer, Lucas und Arthur Jussen, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Daniel Lozakovich, James Ehnes and Alexej Gerassimez.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season include the New Year’s Concert with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony as well as his debuts with the Camerata Salzburg, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker and the orchestra of the Dresdner Philharmonie.
I have known Felix for many years now and I’m proud to see how he has developed his talent.
I’m happy to have him as my assistant conductor in Zurich. Felix is a very good conductor with a strong musicality and skill.
He will have a bright future ahead of him!
He has served as assistant conductor for several conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Paavo Järvi, Sir Simon Rattle, Fabio Luisi, François-Xavier Roth, Gianandrea Noseda, Robin Ticciati, Cristian Macelaru, Emmanuel Krivine and others.
In 2021 he accompanied Herbert Blomstedt on his US tour with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. From 2018 until 2021, he was Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and 2019/20 Assistant Conductor to Paavo Järvi at the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, 2017-19 to Emmanuel Krivine at the Orchestre National de France in Paris and “Cover Conductor” to Bernard Haitink at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In opera productions he assisted Jane Glover at the Aspen Opera Center and Jukka-Pekka Saraste at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Furthermore, he conducted concerts as part of the Impuls Festival for New Music. Felix Mildenberger is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sinfonieorchester Crescendo in Freiburg, which he co-founded in 2014.
Born in Germany in 1990, Felix Mildenberger received his first music education in violin, viola and piano, then going on to study Conducting in Freiburg and Vienna from 2011 to 2015. Among his teachers were Prof. Lutz Koehler HonRAM, Prof. Mark Stringer, Gerhard Markson, Prof. Scott Sandmeier, Massimiliano Matesic and Alexander Burda. He additionally studied with Bernard Haitink, Paavo Järvi, David Zinman, Neeme Järvi, Prof. Johannes Schlaefli, Prof. Nicolás Pasquet, James E. Ross and others in master classes, as well as with John Carewe, Gabriel Feltz, Marko Letonja and Marc Piollet in the course of his Dirigentenforum fellowship.
In 2016 and in 2017 he was Conducting Fellow with the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with Robert Spano, Markus Stenz, Hugh Wolff, Michael Stern, Johannes Debus. He has been scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum since 2017 and of the Akademie Musiktheater heute from 2017 until 2019.
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Felix Mildenberger is a very intelligent and talented musician who shows great promise in his future career as a conductor.
SCHEDULE
Mon, 26 Jun 23
20:00
Norddeutsche Orchesterakademie
G. Mahler: “Totenfeier”
R. Strauss: “Ein Heldenleben”
Wed, 28 Jun 23
20:00
Norddeutsche Orchesterakademie
G. Mahler: “Totenfeier”
R. Strauss: “Ein Heldenleben”
Press
March, 2023
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Bachtrack – Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, March 2020
„Mildenberger shaped a performance that was full of energy and drive, stormy and turbulent where necessary as in the first movement, relaxed and good-humoured at other times as in the third. Changes in dynamics and tempo contributed to an exciting account. (…) The grand melody in the finale brought us to an exciting conclusion of a fine concert.“ [J. Brahms: Sinfonie Nr. 1, c-Moll]
Felix is a very gifted young conductor. He combines great technical skills and an excellent ear with extraordinary musicality and stunning professional attitude.
CONTACT
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Local Management (Japan)
JAPAN ARTS
Mr. Jun-ichi Nihei
nihei@japanarts.co.jp
To contact Felix directly,
please write to contact@felixmildenberger.com
Photography by
Jasper Ehrich
Doug Peters
