Felix Vogelsang

Felix Vogelsang (*1975) worked as an assistant to Tilmann Wick at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media from 2001 to 2004. After gaining orchestral experience in the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Detmold Chamber Orchestra, and the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, among other ensembles, he was encouraged by artists such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Arto Noras, and Sir Colin Davis to initially devote himself to freelance performing.

His concert career has taken him through Europe, Chile, and South Africa to the USA, where he gave his New York debut in April 2002 with pianist Christopher Cooley. Since 2004 he has been assistant principal cellist of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. In the spring of 2005 he performed as a soloist with the German Chamber Orchestra of Berlin under the direction of Markus Poschner in the Berlin Philharmonie. Since then, he has given frequent solo performances with a number of European orchestras, but above all Vogelsang has devoted himself to chamber music.

During his time as a member of the Quartetto Energie Nove (2009–2019), he performed throughout Europe and released four CDs which were highly praised by the international press. For example, Andrew Mellor wrote in The Strad (2018): “The emotional layers in the Largo run deep, right from the opening cello solo, played with sadness yet fortitude by Felix Vogelsang.”

Felix Vogelsang has won awards at several international competitions, including at the International Dmitri Shostakovich Concours, the Liezen International Cello Competition, and the International Piestany Festival. Thanks to the support of PE-Förderungen, Vogelsang plays a cello by Don Nicolò Amati from 1730.

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