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Julia Hagen

Violoncello

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Andreas Neudauer
Senior Artist Manager
+43 660 300 2908
neudauer@rbartists.at

Mag. Sarah Niebergall 
Artist Manager
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Biography

Naturalness and warmth, vitality, and the courage to take risks: These qualities are often used to describe Julia Hagen’s playing. The young cellist from Salzburg is just as convincing as a soloist with orchestra as she is in recital or in numerous chamber music constellations alongside prominent partners. The 28-year-old, who now lives in Vienna, combines technical mastery with high artistic standards and a direct, communicative approach to musicmaking.

Julia Hagen is the winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2024, which includes a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Christian Thielemann at the Lucerne Summer Festival.

Further highlights of the 2023/24 season include concerts with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Krzysztof Urbański with a subsequent European tour, as well as Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia (Jonathan Bloxham), Orquesta Nacional de España (Giovanni Antonini), Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (Julian Rachlin) and Kammerakademie Potsdam (Paul McCreesh). She also returns to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Andrés Orozco-Estrada and makes her debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla with concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris and Wiener Musikverein. Additional debuts take her on tour to Switzerland with the Wiener Symphoniker under their designated Principal Conductor, Petr Popelka, and to the Grafenegg Festival with the Brno Philharmonic under Dennis Russell Davies.

Amongst her many chamber music activities,…

Naturalness and warmth, vitality, and the courage to take risks: These qualities are often used to describe Julia Hagen’s playing. The young cellist from Salzburg is just as convincing as a soloist with orchestra as she is in recital or in numerous chamber music constellations alongside prominent partners. The 28-year-old, who now lives in Vienna, combines technical mastery with high artistic standards and a direct, communicative approach to musicmaking.

Julia Hagen is the winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2024, which includes a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Christian Thielemann at the Lucerne Summer Festival.

Further highlights of the 2023/24 season include concerts with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Krzysztof Urbański with a subsequent European tour, as well as Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia (Jonathan Bloxham), Orquesta Nacional de España (Giovanni Antonini), Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (Julian Rachlin) and Kammerakademie Potsdam (Paul McCreesh). She also returns to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Andrés Orozco-Estrada and makes her debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla with concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris and Wiener Musikverein. Additional debuts take her on tour to Switzerland with the Wiener Symphoniker under their designated Principal Conductor, Petr Popelka, and to the Grafenegg Festival with the Brno Philharmonic under Dennis Russell Davies.

Amongst her many chamber music activities, her trio concerts with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein and her performances of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Salzburger Festspiele are particularly worth mentioning. Other chamber music partners include Anneleen Lenaerts, Mao Fujita, Lukas Sternath, Nikolai Lugansky and Sir András Schiff.

Julia Hagen began playing the cello at the age of five. Her training with Enrico Bronzi in Salzburg and Reinhard Latzko in Vienna was followed by formative years in Heinrich Schiff’s Viennese class from 2013 to 2015, and finally by studies with Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts in Berlin. As a Kronberg Academy scholarship holder, Hagen also studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt until 2022. She was a prize winner of the Liezen International Cello Competition and the Mazzacurati Cello Competition and was awarded the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Culture Prize and the Nicolas Firmenich Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy as the best young cellist, among other prizes.

In 2019, she released her first album together with Annika Treutler with the two cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms on Hänssler Classic. Further recordings are in preparation. Julia Hagen plays an instrument by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1684), which is privately on loan to her.

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Julia Hagen and Igor Levit played Beethoven, Debussy and Shostakovich with much tempo and even more feeling in the Großer Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus.

14.01.2024

Julia Hagen joins Andrés Orozco-Estrada at the RSB
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13.12.2023

Julia Hagen receives the 2024 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award
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22.09.2023

Julia Hagen with the Dresdner Philharmonie in Salzburg
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12.09.2023

Julia Hagen and Alexander Ullman with duo recital at Elbphilharmonie
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02.09.2023

Julia Hagen with Renaud Capuçon and Igor Levit at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg
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18.07.2023

Julia Hagen returns to the Salzburg Festival
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18.05.2023

Julia Hagen returns to Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
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18.03.2023

Julia Hagen and Kirill Gerstein on tour with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
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23.02.2023

Julian Rachlin and Julia Hagen perform with Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
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02.11.2022

Julia Hagen receives the Beethoven Ring 2022
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Repertoire

Bach

Cello Suite No. 1 in G major BWV 1007

Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor BWV 1008

Cello Suite No. 3 in C major BWV 1009

Cello Suite No. 4 E flat major BWV 1010

Beethoven

Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor op. 5 No. 2

Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major op. 69

Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major op. 102 No. 1

Seven Variations on „Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen“ from Mozart‘s

„The Magic Flute“ for violoncello and piano E flat major

Twelve Variations on „Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen“ from Mozart's

"The Magic Flute" for violoncello and piano in F major op. 66

Boccherini

Sonata No. 2 in C minor for violoncello and b.c.

Sonata No. 4 in A major for violoncello and B.C.

Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat majo

Brahms

Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor op. 38

Cello Sonata No. 2 F major op. 99

Britten

Cello Sonata C major op. 65

Bruch

Kol Nidrei op. 47

Cassado

Cello-Suite

Davidoff

Allegro de concerto op. 11

Dvorák

Cello Concerto No. 2 in B minor op. 104

Elgar

Cello Concerto in E minor op. 85

Fauré

Élégie for cello and orchestra op. 24

Après un reve op. 7 No. 1

Gubaidulina

10 pieces for cello solo

Haydn

Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major Hob VIIb: 1

Kabalewsky

Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor op. 49

Lalo

Cello Concerto in C minor

Lutoslawski

Sacher Variations for Violoncello solo

Martinu

Variations on a Slovak Theme for Violoncello and Piano H378

Popper

Hungarian Rhapsody op. 68 for violoncello and orchestra

Papillon for violoncello and piano op. 3 No. 4

Elfentanz for violoncello and piano op. 39

Pendrecki

Viola Concerto (version B. Pergamenschikow)

Respighi

Adagio con Variazioni P 133 for violoncello and orchestra

Rossini

Une larme

Schumann

Cello Concerto in A minor op. 129

Fantasiestücke in A minor op. 73 for violoncello and piano

Adagio and Allegro in A flat major op. 70 for violoncello and piano

Five Pieces in Volkstona minor op. 102 for violoncello and piano

Schostakovitch

Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major op. 107

Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor op. 126

Cello Sonata in D minor op. 40

Saint-Saëns

Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor op. 33

Tschaikowsky

Variations on a Rococo Theme for Violoncello and Orchestra op. 33

 Pezzo capriccioso in B minor op. 62 for violoncello and orchestra

Wieniawski

Scherzo-Tarantelle op. 16