Biography
Felix Brunnenkant was born in Überlingen at Lake Constance. He received his first cello lessons at the age of six from Reinhard Bartsch, later he was taught by Eva Kuhn and Izumi Fujii. Since 2018 he has been studying cello in the artistic base course at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory with Mathias Johansen.
He is a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive music weeks that take place there. He attended master classes with Hans-Christian Schweiker, Daniel Robert Graf, Mario de Secondi, Maximilian Hornung and Francis Gouton.
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Felix Brunnenkann won several 1st prizes at "Jugend musiziert" at the state level and in 2019 a 1st prize with the highest number of points in the solo cello category at the federal level, combined with a special prize from the German Music Life Foundation. In the same year he was the 1st prize winner in the soloist competition of the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in 2019.
With the U16 orchestra Tonhalle Düsseldorf he was heard as a soloist with Camille Saint-Saens' cello concerto in 2016 and with Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch in 2017. He has been a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra since 2018. Among other things, he played there under the direction of Kirill Petrenko. As part of a clarinet trio with Paul Moosbrugger (clarinet) and Gabriel Meloni (piano) he has already performed in the Graf-Zeppelin-Haus Friedrichshafen and the Musikverein Wien.
Felix Brunnenkant plays a cello made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1830, which he got from the Baden-Württemberg State Collection of String Instruments.