Lennart Felix
Lennart Felix (* 1993 in Munich ) is a German pianist , musician and author .
Career
Lennart Felix received training as a beginner with Wolfgang Schiwietz and later as a guest student at the Munich Music Academy with Friedmann Berger and Christoph Adt and continued his studies with Peter Feuchtwanger and Niel Immelman in London.
The summer courses in Viktring and private studies with Paul Gulda in Vienna, Katja Cheung-Bihler (a student of Peter Feuchtwanger and Krystian Zimmerman) and with Andrzej Jasinsky in Opole and Jean-Jacques Dünki in Basel complemented his training.
The Romanian musician Horia Dinu Nicolaescu and the arranger and composer Gewaro Römer (1942–2012) aroused a particular fondness for improvisation .
Aside from music, Lennart Felix wrote for various sections of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and studied Sinology and cultural history at the Free University of Berlin for a few semesters , as well as European studies major with a focus on France and Italian at the University of Passau .
In 2010 he was 2nd prize winner at the International Hindemith Competition, later a finalist at the International Beethoven Chamber Music Competition in the Penderecki Music Center Luslawice in the duo category together with Jan Paul Kussmaul.
Working with contemporary composers such as Nimrod Borenstein is important to the artist.
He was also sponsored several times in the context of the Oxford Piano Festival, with whose director Marios Papadopoulos a joint benefit concert took place in the Charlottenburg Town Hall in Berlin to help Greece.
In 2014 he made his London debut at St. John's Church in Wimbledon, in 2016 he made his debut in Munich's Herkulessaal , and a year later he made his first solo CD on the MDG label .
First in 2017, the artist took part in the International Beethoven Courses initiated by Wilhelm Kempff under Jan Jiracek von Arnim; a longer scholarship stay followed in winter and spring 2020.
In order to ward off any misconception about his middle-class family name, the artist uses a pseudonym (the city planner Albert Speer Junior (1934-2017) and the educationalist and Green politician Hilde Schramm (born 1936) are his cousins Grandfather; the bass Yorck Felix Speer a distant cousin).
The musicologist Anthony van Hoboken is also a related by marriage on his father's side.
In addition, the composer and teacher Kurt Sydow and the singer Peter Wieland (1930–2020) are part of the maternal family.
The symbolic pseudonym is intended to draw attention to the fact that even the young generation - if they go public - is confronted with long-cherished resentments and prejudices from past, troubled times.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva-Elisabeth Fischer: One person, one character . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 21, 2016, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 14, 2018]).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Felix, Lennart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |