Felix Leuschner is a composer, sound designer, instrument inventor, and theorist whose work explores a contemporary philosophy of time through music, performance, and media.
At the core of his practice is an inquiry into how creativity, entertainment, and artistic authorship can be redefined today. Within this research, Leuschner is developing a unique evolution of the operatic genre, one that expands opera into a hybrid framework of sound, performance, technology, and conceptual media.
Opera, for Leuschner, is a powerful experimental vehicle: a space in which philosophy, performance, sound design, and speculative thinking can be exercised simultaneously. His work consistently bridges the analog and the digital, treating both as equal and intertwined components of musical expression.
He collaborates closely with composers, sound engineers, philosophers, dramaturgs, opera houses, AI developers, and music software designers to translate theoretical concepts into performative experiences on stage.
Electronics play a central role in his music. Acoustic instruments are subjected to live electronic transformation, extending their sonic identity beyond traditional limits. In pursuit of artistic and technological independence from the commercialized music industry, Leuschner programs his own electronic instruments, synthesizers, and effect systems.
His operatic works have been presented at major institutions including the Munich State Opera, Kassel State Opera, the Munich Biennale, and the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen. He has received commissions from the Siemens Arts Program, the Darmstadt State Theater, and the Braunschweig State Theater. In addition to operatic works, he composes chamber music for a wide range of soloists and ensembles, produces radio broadcasts for Hessischer Rundfunk, and performs at international festivals worldwide.
Concert and research travels take him across Asia, Africa, America, and Europe, where he actively seeks collaboration with local artists and musicians, often engaging in spontaneous and unconventional performance formats.
Felix Leuschner studied composition at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg and the University of Music and Theatre Munich, and studied drums at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.