General Music Director of the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt

Principal Guest Conductor of the Filarmonica TRT

“Young, dynamic, energetic, determined, and full of expressive body language” – this is
how the press describes Felix Mildenberger. Since winning the Donatella Flick
LSO Conducting Competition in 2018, his career has risen steeply. For two years
he served as Assistant Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, working
closely with Sir Simon Rattle. Further assistantships took him to the
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich (Paavo Järvi), the Orchestre National de France
(Emmanuel Krivine), and as Cover Conductor to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
(including for Bernard Haitink and Mariss Jansons).

He also gained valuable operatic experience at the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Marc
Albrecht), the Aspen Opera Center (Jane Glover), and the Bavarian State Opera
(Jukka-Pekka Saraste). In 2024, he made a highly acclaimed debut at the
Deutsche Oper Berlin with George Benjamin’s Written on Skin.

Felix Mildenberger has led many prestigious orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, DSO Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, hrSinfonieorchester, Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Camerata Salzburg, Dortmund Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Bremen Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, Ensemble Modern, Orchestre National de Lille, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, and Kansai Philharmonic in Osaka.  Among the soloists he has worked with are Julia Fischer, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Martin James Bartlett, Daniel Lozakovich, and James Ehnes.  

In the 2026/27 season, Mildenberger will take up his post as General Music Director of
the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt. Furthermore, he will conduct
concerts with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra and the
Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino.

Felix Mildenberger began his musical training in violin, viola, and piano before studying
conducting in Freiburg, Vienna, and at the Aspen Music Festival. His teachers
included Lutz Köhler, Gerhard Markson, Scott Sandmeier, Massimiliano Matesic,
Mark Stringer, and Alexander Burda; further inspiration came from masterclasses
with David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Bernard Haitink, and Markus Stenz. From 2015 to
2017 he himself taught conducting at the Freiburg University of Music and, in
2020, led a masterclass for young conductors during the Mozartwoche.

As a scholarship holder of the Conductors’ Forum, he was selected in 2021 for the
“Maestros of Tomorrow” list of the German Music Council. Already in 2020, he
became the first conductor to be awarded the Prix Young Artist of the Year at
the Festival der Nationen.

july 2026