Felix Petereit

Born in 1995 in Halle/Saale, Felix Petereit received his first trumpet lessons at the age of 12. In 2013 he began his bachelor’s studies with Tobias Willner at the Dresden Music Academy, graduating in 2017; this was followed by master’s degree studies with Helmut Fuchs, also in Dresden. Felix Petereit gathered orchestral experience during his studies as a substitute at the Dresden State Operetta and as a member of the orchestral academy of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, where Jonathan Müller was his mentor and teacher. In March 2020 Felix Petereit was appointed principal trumpet of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.