Felix Renggli - Flutist - Switzerland/Germany
Felix Renggli was born in Basel/Switzerland and studied flute with Gerhard Hildenbrand, Peter-Lukas Graf and Aurèle Nicolet. He gave up his chair as a solo flautist with the Symphony Orchestra of St. Gallen, to start a freelance career in the same position with several orchestras in Europe (Tonhalle Zürich, Festival Orchestra Lucerne, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe) and perform as soloist at several international festivals as in Paris, Bourges, Lucerne, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, and Lockenhaus. Working and playing regularly together with oboist, composer and conductor Heinz Holliger has deeply marked his musical career. He tours as a soloist and a member of different chamber music groups, such as the "Ensemble Contrechamps"/Geneva (music of the 20th century), the "Holliger-woodwind-quintet", "Nova Stravaganza/Köln" (on baroque instruments, in Europe, Japan, China, Korea, South America and USA, playing in prestigious halls such as Merkin Hall/New York (Solorecital), Opera Bastille/Paris, Beethoven Hall/Tokyo and Alte Oper/Frankfurt. Felix Renggli has won prizes at various international music competitions, has recorded for radio and appears on a growing number of compact discs, with the Ensemble Contrechamps, Heinz Holliger, the Arditti-quartett, the pianist Jan Schultzs and others. (Philips, Koch International, Accord, Stradivarius, Discover) Renggli teaches a professional flute class at the Music Academy of Basel, for which he was nominated as successor to Peter-Lukas Graf. He regularly gives master-classes in Europe, Japan, Australia and South America. His repertoire ranges from the 18th century, played on historical instruments (Nova Stravaganza/Köln), up to the avant-garde of our time, having played first performances from many solo-and chamber-music works, (also with Ensemble Contrechamps/Geneva). In 1999, he became artistic director of the new released concert series in Switzerland, "Swiss Chamber Concerts". In 2004, he was nominated Professor at the "Music University of Freiburg i. Br.", Germany. http://www.felixrenggli.com
