Felix Mildenberger has been the principal guest conductor of the Filarmonica Teatro Regio di Torino since the 2021/2022 season. After winning the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in 2018, he worked as assistant conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra for two years in close collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle, François-Xavier Roth and Gianandrea Noseda, among others. During the 2019-20 season, he was assistant conductor to Paavo Järvi in the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and 2017-19 at the Orchestre National de France for principal conductor Emmanuel Krivine. In addition, he was contracted repeatedly by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as a "cover conductor" for conductors such as Bernard Haitink and Mariss Jansons.
He assisted Jane Glover at the Aspen Opera Center and Jukka-Pekka Saraste at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in opera productions.
Praised for his “refined technique and clear ideas”, Felix Mildenberger already works with notable orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the DSO Berlin, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the hr-Symphony Orchestra, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Bremer Philharmoniker, the Camerata Salzburg, the Ensemble Modern, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Bremer Philharmoniker, the Camerata Salzburg, the Ensemble Modern, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lille, and with soloists such as Julia Fischer, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Daniel Lozakovich, James Ehnes and Alexej Gerassimez.
During the 2023-24 season, he debuted with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at Christmas concerts and conducted a performance of "Written on Skin" by George Benjamin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. During the following season, he will conduct "The Damnation of Faust" at the Slovene National Opera and will return to Tenerife, Belgrade and Zurich.
His musical education began with violin, viola and piano. He studied conducting in Freiburg and Vienna and was a conducting fellow with the Aspen Music Festival. His mentors include Lutz Köhler, Gerhard Markson, Mark Stringer and Scott Sandmeier. He also attended lectures of David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Bernard Haitink y Markus Stenz and others.
Between 2015 and 2017, he taught conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and gave lectures for young conductors at the University Mozarteum Salzburg during Mozart Week 2020.
A continued scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum, in 2021 he was added by the Deutscher Musikrat organisation to the list "Maestros of Tomorrow", which recognises artists with long-standing artistic quality.