On tour with Mozart | Felix Klieser and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Felix Klieser has played the horn for 27 years – without arms. At the tender age of nine, he dreamed of playing Mozart’s horn concertos. Today, he performs these pieces in concert halls large and small in the south of England together with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He is the first German horn player to be appointed the orchestra’s artist in residence.

While the four Mozart horn concertos are in every bugler’s repertoire, Klieser has waited a long time to record the cherished works. In September 2018, after three successful albums that garnered him an ECHO Klassik and Leonard Bernstein award, he headed to Salzburg to finally record all four of Mozart’s horn concertos with the famous Camerata Salzburg ensemble. Klieser’s rehearsals for the Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495, began in 2022 in Poole. The town is the headquarters of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, a touring orchestra that plays in concert halls across the south and southwest of England. The next stop on the tour for Felix Klieser is Plymouth.