Lucas Fels, Professor of interpretation of new music, chamber music and music communication at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt am Main and cellist in the Arditti Quartet will be Erasmus Visiting Faculty at the Grieg Academy from 17- 19 April.

Lucas Fels (*1962) is a German cellist and teacher who specialises in the performance and interpretation of music of the 20th century and contemporary music. He studied cello with Christoph Henkel in Freiburg, Anner Bijlsma in Amsterdam und Amadeo Baldovino in Fiesole. In 1985 he co-founded ensemble recherche, which focuses on the performance of chamber music from the 20th and 21st centuries, and participated as cellist until 2005. In 2006 he joined the Arditti Quartet in London and continued his wide-ranging concert activities across the globe, performing hundreds of contemporary works and collaborating closely with composers.

He has been professor of Interpretational Performance Practice of New Music, Chamber music and the Communication of Music at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main since 2013. He is active as a soloist with a broad solo repertoire from the last century and the present day and has performed, taught and lectured internationally.

Prof. Fels has been actively involved as a tutor with the Darmstadt Summer School since 1998. He is the chairman of the Friends and Supporters of the IMD Darmstadt. His skills as a musician, teacher and communicator have been called upon by the Goethe Institute, the Musikfonds of the German Ministry of Culture and Media, The Deutsche Musikrat, The Zender Foundation and the Hepner Foundation. Fels’ research interests also include a keen focus on notation. An example of this is his work on the new notation and edition of Lachenmann’s “Pression”, in collaboration with the composer.

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