Felix Krieger
Felix Krieger (born 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German conductor.
Biography
Krieger[1] began to study piano at age 6, and viola at age 11. At 15 he entered the Musikhochschule of his hometown to study piano, hapsichord and music theory. He studied conducting with Klauspeter Seibel at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and was a masterstudent of Carlo Maria Giulini at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. At the same time he worked as an assistant conductor to Claudio Abbado at the Berlin Philharmonic. In Bayreuth he was assistant conductor to Daniele Gatti for the production of Parsifal.
Krieger started his career as Kapellmeister at Theater Bielefeld in 2000. On the Shanghai Spring Music Festival in 2002 he conducted leading musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their first-ever trip to China in cooperation with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.[2]
He is a regular guest conductor at Staatsoper Berlin[3] since 2003 and at Teatro Comunale di Bologna since 2013.
Felix Krieger is founder, artistic director and principal conductor of the Berliner Operngruppe.[4]
He is the nephew of musicologist Christoph Wolff.