Felix Hell

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Felix Hell (born September 14, 1985 in Frankenthal / Pfalz ) is a German organist . He lives in the USA .

education

Felix Hell grew up in Laumersheim . He received his first piano and organ lessons at the age of seven. After just a few months, on Easter Sunday 1994, he organized his first service, a Catholic Easter high mass, on the Voit organ of the Laurentius Church in the neighboring village of Dirmstein . In 1995 he passed the D examination as a church musician, in 1997 he was accepted as a twelve-year-old student at the University of Church Music in Heidelberg . He was first prize winner eight times in the Jugend musiziert competition .

Even during his school education, Hell took part in numerous master courses at home and abroad. In 1999 he received a full scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York and moved to the United States . Two years later he was awarded a full scholarship at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia , where he took the concert exam in 2004 and obtained a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree.

In 2004 Hell took up additional studies at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (Maryland). His previous degrees there were the Graduate Artist Diploma in 2007 and the Master of Musical Arts in 2008 .

job

Hell's international concert career as an organist has already shown more than 700 concerts and has taken him to numerous countries in Europe and overseas. He also recorded eight CDs.

Hell is a member of the Society of Organ Friends , the American Guild of Organists , the Organ Historical Society, and the Organ Music Society of Sydney . He is Organ Artist Associate at Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan , New York, Distinguished Organist-in-Residence with a teaching position at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg , Pennsylvania, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Artistic Organ at Sunderman Conservatory , which belongs to the University of Gettysburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography. felixhell.com, accessed December 19, 2013 .
  2. ↑ CDs. felixhell.com, accessed December 19, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Felix Hell. The Sunderman Conservatory of Music, accessed December 19, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German organist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)