Swiss Baritone Felix Gygli is the Winner of the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Lied Prize at the Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo. Felix was a Young Artist at the National Opera Studio for the 22/23 season and was also part of the Académie Lyrique at the Verbier Festival 2023, where he appeared as 2nd Handwerksbursch Wozzeck and received the Prix Thierry Mermod for the most promising singer.
Felix is currently part of the International Opera Studio at Opera Zurich, where upcoming appearances include Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other opera and oratorio engagements in 2024 include concerts with Orchestre National Montpellier, his US debut at the Boston Text and Tone Festival and Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Orchestra of Theater Biel-Solothurn.
As a recitalist, Felix appears regularly with pianists JongSun Woo and Tomasz Domanski across the UK, France and Switzerland and participated in Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio, mentored by Renée Fleming. A regular performer of oratorio repertoire, he has performed Fauré’s Requiem, Mendelssohn Elijah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and multiple Bach cantatas around Europe. In 2022, he made his operatic debut singing Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Ouverture Opéra Sion.
Felix studied with Gerd Türk at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and subsequently with Rudolf Piernay at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
