Swiss Baritone Felix Gygli was recently announced as the Winner of the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and is the winner of the Lied Prize of the Queen Sonja Competition 2023.
In the 23/24 season, he will join the International Opera Studio at Opera Zurich and partake in the Académie Lyrique at Verbier Festival, where he looks forward to performing the role of the 2nd Handwerksbursch in Wozzeck and later in the season as Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opernhaus Zurich. On the concert stage he will appear with Chloé Dufresne and the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie in the opening concert of the Opéra de Montpellier and together with Pianist Tomast Domanski in his first performance of Schubert’s Winterreise. In March 24, he will appear as the Baritone Soloist in Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of Theater Biel-Solothurn.
Felix has won several awards, including first prizes in the Concours international de la mélodie de Gordes and the English Song prize of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and second prizes in the Elvirissima Competition in Switzerland and the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards in London. During the Verbier Festival he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer of the Académie Lyrique. Together with pianist JongSun Woo, he was also awarded the Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute UK Prize.
Felix is a keen recitalist and appears regularly with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski in recitals across the UK, France, and Switzerland. He is also a regular performer of oratorio repertoire, having performed Fauré’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, and multiple Bach cantatas around Europe.
He has received scholarships from the Rahn Kulturfonds and Help Musicians UK and is a Laureate of the Fondation Royaumont. Felix was a Leeds Lieder Young Artist with JongSun Woo in 2022 and a LIEDBasel Academy singer with Tomasz Domanski in 2021. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he studied under the tutelage of Prof. Rudolf Piernay. In the 22/23 season he was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London.
Upcoming events with The Mozartists:
The A-Z of Mozart Opera
1 August 2024 – Hofburg Rittersaal
Swiss Baritone Felix Gygli was recently announced as the Winner of the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and is the winner of the Lied Prize of the Queen Sonja Competition 2023.
In the 23/24 season, he will join the International Opera Studio at Opera Zurich and partake in the Académie Lyrique at Verbier Festival, where he looks forward to performing the role of the 2nd Handwerksbursch in Wozzeck and later in the season as Starveling in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opernhaus Zurich. On the concert stage he will appear with Chloé Dufresne and the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie in the opening concert of the Opéra de Montpellier and together with Pianist Tomast Domanski in his first performance of Schubert’s Winterreise. In March 24, he will appear as the Baritone Soloist in Brahms’ Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of Theater Biel-Solothurn.
Felix has won several awards, including first prizes in the Concours international de la mélodie de Gordes and the English Song prize of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and second prizes in the Elvirissima Competition in Switzerland and the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards in London. During the Verbier Festival he was awarded the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer of the Académie Lyrique. Together with pianist JongSun Woo, he was also awarded the Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute UK Prize.
Felix is a keen recitalist and appears regularly with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski in recitals across the UK, France, and Switzerland. He is also a regular performer of oratorio repertoire, having performed Fauré’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion, and multiple Bach cantatas around Europe.
He has received scholarships from the Rahn Kulturfonds and Help Musicians UK and is a Laureate of the Fondation Royaumont. Felix was a Leeds Lieder Young Artist with JongSun Woo in 2022 and a LIEDBasel Academy singer with Tomasz Domanski in 2021. He is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he studied under the tutelage of Prof. Rudolf Piernay. In the 22/23 season he was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London.
Upcoming events with The Mozartists:
The A-Z of Mozart Opera
1 August 2024 – Hofburg Rittersaal