Felix Schauren, Conductor
The young conductor Felix Schauren’s musical roots are diverse. At the early age of five, he began his musical training, starting with percussion lessons, followed by trumpet and piano. He maintained this diversified approach during his training at the academy, studying trumpet, conducting and music pedagogy in Saarbrücken and Munich. Apart from Toshiyuki Kamioka and Manuel Nawri, his most important conducting teachers, he also took lessons from Sian Edwards and Christopher Ward. Since the beginning of his bachelor studies, he has conducted the Junge Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie regularly, including symphonies by Beethoven, Bruckner and Schubert, led concerts of the youth orchestras of Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland, and conducted the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie in Terry Riley’s ›In C‹. During his studies he also had the opportunity to pursue his fascination with new music as well as classical repertoire. Thus, he conducted the world premiere of Frank Zabel’s ›Der Hüpfstern‹, performed by musicians of the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern as well as several world premieres performed by the orchestra of the Saar Academy of Music. In cooperation with the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, he conducted the Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie in further world premieres by composition students. Most recently, he led musicians of the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin in Rebecca Saunders’ work ›Disclosure‹ and performed Unsuk Chin’s ›fantaisie mécanique‹ at the Mozartfest in Würzburg. As a trumpet player, he has performed with his ensemble LJO-Brass, with which he has recorded CDs for BR/SWR and SR and also performed regularly at major music festivals such as the Mosel Music Festival and the Rheingau Music Festival. He is a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and has been a guest soloist with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. In addition, he regularly coaches the Youth Orchestra of Rheinland-Pfalz and worked at the Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen as a répétiteur.