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Felix Koch

Felix Koch is active as a conductor, ensemble leader, cellist, festival director, and educator. Since 2007, he has been the director of the Neumeyer Consort, which he co-founded. Koch was born in 1969 in Saarbrücken, West Germany. He studied both conducting and cello from the beginning, taking classes from Wolfgang Heinzel in Saarbrücken and from Christoph Siebert at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. He developed an interest in early music and had conducting lessons from historical performance specialists Michael Hofstetter, Konrad Junghänel, and Ton Koopman. As a cellist, Koch studied with Michael Flaksman in Mannheim, Martin Ostertag in Karlsruhe, and with Rainer Zipperling in Frankfurt, where he began to specialize in Baroque cello. He also found time to earn a music education degree at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He went on to teach at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt and the University of Mainz, where he founded the Gutenberg Kammerchor in 2013 and served as vice-rector from 2015 to 2017. Koch played for some years with the Ensemble Concertino Saarbrücken and recorded with that group as early as 1997. In 1999, Koch co-founded the Ensemble Mediolanum with keyboardist Wiebke Weidanz and recorder player Sabine Ambos. He co-founded the Neumeyer Concert with violinist Barbara Mauch-Heinke and keyboardist Markus Stein in 2007, and as of the early 2020s, he remained the group's director. Meanwhile, Koch's career as a cellist was flourishing. He has played under conductors Junghänel, Koopman, and Masaaki Suzuki, among others, and he has appeared as a soloist or with ensembles around Europe and the U.S. and as far afield as Russia and South Africa. Koch led the Neumeyer Consort in recordings of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and St. Mark Passion, BWV 244 (the latter in its rare 1744 version) for the Christophorus label in 2016 and 2018, respectively. Later in 2018, he moved to the Rondeau label with the Neumeyer Consort and the Gutenberg Kammerchor for a recording of Bach's Himmelfahrtsoratorium, BWV 11. In 2022 and 2023, the Neumeyer Consort and the newly created Gutenberg Soloists issued a complete recording in two volumes of Telemann's complete cantatas from his so-called Französischer Jahrgang ("French Year").
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