Felix Wurman (October 27, 1958December 26, 2009) was an American cellist and composer. Early years Wurman was the son of Hans Wurman, a Jewish composer and pianist who had escaped from Austria during the Anschluss period of Nazi rule. His brother is composer Alex Wurman. Wurman began playing the cello at age seven and gave his first public performance, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at age 12. He was invited to attend the Juilliard School, but chose to study in Europe under the British cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Du Pré, who was no longer able to play due to multiple sclerosis, taught Wurman for two years. Domus While in England, Wurman focused on chamber music and performed with Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England. Wurman performed with musicians including Hungarian violinist Sándor Végh and Johannes Goritski. In the early 1980s, Wurman was one of the founders of Domus, a chamber music group that performed in its own portable geodesic dome tent built by Wurman. The group, originally consisting of Wurman and Richard Lester on cello, Krysia Osostowicz on violin, Robin Ireland on viola, Michael Faust on flute, and Susan Tomes on piano, began at the International Musicians' Seminars at Prussia Cove. By using a portable concert hall that could be erected by musicians themselves with seating for an audience of 200, Domus sought to build a broader audience for chamber music and performed in unconventional locations. Domus participated in the European festival circuit and later won two German Record Critics' Prizes and a Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Music Recording for its recording of Fauré: Piano Quartets 1 & 2. Tomes, who went on to become a noted concert pianist and writer, described Wurman as an "animateur of genius" whose love of music, fun and adventure "made people want to be in his gang." Tomes recalled that Wurman came up with the idea to build a portable concert hall using the form of a geodesic dome. Return to the United States Wurman later returned to Chicago, joined the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and became a freelance cellist in Chicago. Wurman returned to Europe frequently and studied in Amsterdam under Anner Bylsma. Bylsma encouraged Wurman to build a five-string cello so that he could perform a broad repertoire of transcriptions, consisting mostly of works for violin. Wurman performed concerts of the Sonatas and partitas for solo violin