Felix Matus-Echaiz
Born in Santiago de Chili in 1954, Felix Matus-Echaiz was early attracted by classical music, a grand-mother was a pianist and his father both violonist and pianist as an amateur. He discovered with him the great composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Wagner...
At 12 he started studying cello shortly before musical analysis, harmony and composition.
In 1974 he moves to France so study cello at the Ecole Normale de Musique. He will work there three years with Dimitry Markevitch. Conducting, a discipline for which he has always been attracted, will allow him to go deeper in his knowledge of masterpieces of the repertoire. In these circumstances he conducted works by Bach, Haendel, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart, Weber, etc.
Philippe Leduc introduit la conférence. Felix Matus-Echaiz analyse Don Giovanni par Furtwängler, février 2006
When he was 15 he made a double and decisive discovery : Bruckner, through its 9th Symphony, by Furtwängler. He heard about the Furtwängler Society (SWF) in 1979 from a radio broadcast about the conductor, which he joined immediately.
With the support of Sami Habra he started giving conferences at the Furtwängler Society as a speaker.
Appart from the Furtwängler Society, Felix Matus-Echaiz has been a speaker in other conferences about Die Tetralogie, Schoenberg, Aïda, Nabucco, etc.
He founded in 2004 and since conducts an orchestra in Carrières-sous-Poissy, in the west part of the region of Paris.
(c) 2002, maj 2005
The composer | The man | The conductor
