Felix Koch is Professor of Early Music and Music Education at the Mainz University of Music and Director of the Collegium musicum at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. He studied violoncello and music education in Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt/M, has won numerous competitions and received scholarships from well-known funding institutions. As a soloist, chamber musician and conductor of his baroque orchestra Neumeyer Consort, in addition to radio and CD productions, he has performed at important European festivals and music centers (including Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Resonanzen Vienna, Lucerne Festival, Bach Festival Leipzig, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Berlin Philharmonic ), as well as to Yaroslavl (Russia), Brussels, Turin, Milan, Cape Town, Stellenbosch and New York.

In addition to his extensive artistic work, he has also devoted himself to the field of music education since 2000: in 2004 he took on a teaching assignment for music education/concert pedagogy at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, from 2008 he was the project manager of the Frankfurt singing project "Primacanta - Every child's voice “ and has been the artistic director of the musical children’s university in Mainz since 2012.

In 2012 he took over as conductor of the UniChor and the UniOrchester Mainz, the Gutenberg Chamber Choir, is also the artistic director of the "Forum Alte Musik Frankfurt" and the "Internationale Musiktage Wörrstädter Land". In 2018, Felix Koch was awarded the title of "Mainz Town Musician" for his services to the musical life of the state capital Mainz. In 2020, with the international Telemann-project in cooperation with the SWR, he initiated the world's first complete recording of a large cantatas by G.P.Telemann with 72 church cantatas of the "French year" (1714/15).