About
Musician, composer, arranger
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Felix Do is a composer and arranger from North London, with a passion for storytelling, community and collaboration. He has had works performed around Manchester, London, Cambridge and Berkshire. Recent collaborations include: Hetta Falzon; Clod Ensemble; The Emerz Collective with dancers from the Northern Ballet School; RNCM Community Chorus and The Sunday Boys. He frequently arranges for London Trans Pride Marching Band, and has been a co-composer in several works for stage, including three original RNCM operas, with composer Kate Pearson, and, Timey Wimey - A Doctor Who Musical with the University of Manchester Musical Theatre Society.
Additionally, he likes to play violin in ensembles Taraneh, Hive Sinfonia and The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra in addition to playing in folk sessions around Manchester. He really likes cooking yummy veggie dishes and is learning how to play cello and ride a bike (not at the same time though.)
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Felix grew up above his family’s restaurant in Crouch End and learnt piano from the age of 6. He later also picked up the violin and oboe respectively. (His Russian A level and oboe diploma were both on the same day but he was really brave about it). From 11-18 he studied at the Latymer School Edmonton, which he left with a love for choral singing and ensemble playing. It was there that he had his first orchestral premiere ‘Prayer’, which reflects on nostalgia, and different people’s responses to grief. He also spent a year at the Junior Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Grace Evangeline Mason; worked on ‘The Wanderer’ – a tripartite fairytale for oboe and piano; and won the JRAM Chamber Ensemble Composition Prize 2023 for his wind quintet ‘A Confrontation Between Friends’.
In 2023 he began his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music where he met Joe Steel, Emily O’Dell and Lola Garcia Marquez, who would later become the core members of the Emerz Collective, a group of creatives with a core string quartet with whom Felix would work closely with. Recent projects with the Emerz Collective include ‘The Pagoda Remembers’, written for a collaboration with Matthew Ross choreographer and dancers from the Northern Ballet School and ‘Fairytales’: a cosy and interactive story-telling project featuring open scored improvised responses to the narrative and electronic sampling. Felix has also made Session Orchestra arrangements for pop artists She’s Mine and Hetta Falzon, as well as collaborating with Clod Ensemble, The Sunday Boys, Kate Pearson and workshops with the BBC Singers all through RNCM, under the guidance of Emily Howard and Larry Goves.
