PROGRAMME
(amended)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude and Fugue D Major, BWV 532

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)
Sonate Nr. 1, f minor, op. 65

Enjott Schneider (b. 1950)
Toccata “Schlafes Bruder” (translation: “brother of sleep”)

INTERVAL

Seth Bingham (1882-1972)
Roulade, op. 9, No. 3

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Fantasy and Fugue on
“Ad nos ad salutarem undam”

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Felix Hell was born on September 14, 1985, in Frankenthal/Pfalz, Germany. He took his first piano lesson at the age of seven, after having heard the C-Major Prelude, WTK-I, of J.S.Bach. He played it from memory after a few days listening to it and observing the piano player. Only eight months later, September 1993, he took his first organ lesson. Already in spring 1994, just 7 months after his first organ lesson, he participated in the Federal German competition for young musicians "Jugend musiziert", and received two First Prizes in organ playing.
On Easter 1994, still eight years old, he was on duty in his first service as a liturgical organist, playing the organ at a Roman Catholic High Mass.

The following years Felix Hell continued to take First Prizes in the German competition "Jugend musiziert": 1996 two First Prizes in piano playing, 1997 two First Prizes in organ playing and in 1999 again two First Prizes in piano playing.

From the very beginning Felix Hell maintained a very busy recital schedule. His first solo appearance dates back to march 1994, and his first solo concert abroad the soon to be nine-year old Felix gave in August 1994 in the Great Hall of the Saratov Conservatory, Russia. Meanwhile Felix Hell has performed almost 350 recitals in Germany and abroad: Canada, Australia, Russia, Korea, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, Iceland, Norway, Jamaica, and the USA, where he had given more than 200 concerts in 35 states.

He was privileged to perform in such prestigious places including:
Passau Cathedral (Hoher Dom zu Passau), Germany
Ulm Cathedral (Ulmer Muenster), Germany
Cathedral of Hildesheim (Hoher Dom zu Hildesheim), Germany
Cathedral of St Mauritius and St. Katharina, Magdeburg, Germany
Cathedral of St. Peter, Worms, Germany
University of Bochum, Auditorium Maximum, Germany
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York
Spreckels Organ at Balboa Park, San Diego
Tschaikovskiy Concert Hall, St. Petersburg
Great Philharmonic Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dome Cathedral, Riga, Latvia
Melbourne Town Hall, Australia
Sydney Opera House, Australia
Sydney Townhall, Australia
Adelaide Town Hall, Australia
Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway
Bergen Cathedral, Norway Orchestra performances comprise concerts with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, USA, and the National Academy Orchestra of Canada under Boris Brott.

Felix Hell is member of the American Guild of Organists, the Organ Historical Society and the German Gesellschaft der Orgelfreunde. He is Organ Artist Associate at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan, New York City.
Felix Hell has recorded five CDs, critically acclaimed by the public as well as by experts. His music has been broadcast several times, including a 90 minute solo show, by PIPEDREAMS of Minnesota Public Radio (host: Michael Barone), as well as by radio stations of Germany, The Netherlands, Australia, and by the BBC in Great Britain.
He was featured on TV at ABC and NBC, and the German TV stations ARD, ZDF, SWR, RTL, DW, SAT1, and 3SAT.

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