Felix Klieser is a problem solver who focuses on the art of the possible. Born without arms to a non-musical family, he determined at the age of four that he would learn to play the French horn. At five years old, he took his first lessons, and at thirteen, he enrolled as a junior student at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media. In 2014, he received the ECHO Klassik Award as Young Artist of the Year, as well as the Music Prize of the Association of German Concert Directors. His second book, “Imagine It’s Not Possible – Yet Someone Does It Anyway,” was published by Ullstein in the summer of 2024. He received the Leonard Bernstein Award at the 2016 Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In the summer of 2022, he made his debut at the Ravenna Festival at the invitation of Maestro Riccardo Muti. In the following year, he made his highly acclaimed debut at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, marking the conclusion of his two-year residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The concert was broadcast live on radio and television. Highlights of the 2026/2027 season include his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a tour with the Residentie Orkest, featuring concerts in The Hague and Utrecht, among other cities. In addition, he will perform with the early music ensemble L’arte del mondo, and he will play several concerts with the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. Klieser will embark on an octet tour once again, accompanied by renowned colleagues Sebastian Manz (clarinet), Theo Plath (bassoon), Franziska Hölscher (violin), Stephen Waarts (violin), Wen Xiao Zheng (viola), Andrei Ioniță (cello), and Dominik Wagner (double bass). During last season's tour with the ensemble I Solisti di Pavia—including a performance at the Prinzregententheater in Munich—Felix Klieser presented his new programme, Senza parole, featuring Italian opera arias transcribed for horn and orchestra. The eponymous album was released in spring 2026 on the Berlin Classics/Edel label. Klieser once again appeared at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms, this time performing with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the direction of Benjamin Marquise Gilmore. He also returned to Glasgow and Edinburgh with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Søndergård. Additionally, he toured Switzerland as part of a trio alongside Maria Loudenich (violin) and Oliver Schnyder (piano). For Felix, a personal highlight of the past season was a concert tour of Ukraine. Despite the ongoing war, he performed in Kyiv and Lviv with the Liatoshynskyi Capella and the Lviv Academic Symphony Orchestra. These emotionally intense events created a profound sense of connection, leaving an indelible impression on both Felix and Ukrainian audiences. Orchestras with whom he has performed include the Camerata Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Orchestra Sinfonica Milano Giuseppe Verdi (Milan), the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Slovenska Filharmonija (Bratislava), the Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and the chamber orchestra O/Modernt (Stockholm). As a chamber musician, he has played in the Berlin Philharmonie, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Philharmonie in Essen, the Glocke in Bremen, the Beethoven House in Bonn, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Felix Klieser won an ECHO Klassik award for his debut album, “Reveries,” recorded by Berlin Classics. In 2019, he released another Berlin Classics recording of the complete Mozart horn concertos with the Camerata Salzburg. The album subsequently spent three months in German classical music charts’ top 10. In 2022, he performed and recorded the world premiere of “Soundscape”, a horn concerto dedicated to him by Swedish composer Rolf Martinsson. “A Golden Christmas,” also widely popular with audiences, was recorded with the Wiener Concert-Verein in December 2023 under the same label. His horn, which he named “Alex”, is a model 103 from the manufacturer Gebr.