Julia Hagen - Cello

Cellist Julia Hagen, born in Salzburg in 1995, is one of the most promising instrumentalists of her generation. At the age of 5 she received her first lessons from Detlef Mielke at the Musikum Salzburg. She went on to study at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Enrico Bronzi, at the University of Vienna with Reinhard Latzko and from 2013 to 2015 with legendary cellist Heinrich Schiff. In 2015 the young musician moved to Berlin to continue her studies under Prof. Jens Peter Maintz at the UdK. Julia Hagen has been a scholarship holder of the Kronberg Academy where she’s working with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt since 2019.

The young cellist made her debut at the Brucknerhaus Linz at the age of 14, playing as soloist with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra. Concerts in Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium and Norway followed. After appearances in the Suntory Hall Tokyo, Konzerthaus Berlin, Festspielhaus Salzburg and Musikverein Wien, Julia Hagen celebrated her debuts in the 2019/2020 season at Salzburg Pfingsfestspiele, Wiener Konzerthaus, Tonhalle Zürich, Festival Heidelberger Frühling and the Barbican Center in London. She played with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim and with prestigious chamber music partners such as Khatia Buniatishvili, Renaud Capuçon, Yevgeny Chepovetsky and Marc-André Hamelin.

In the 2020/2021 season, Julia Hagen will once again be appearing as a soloist and chamber musician as part of the “Great Talent Cycle” at the Wiener Konzerthaus. This also includes a recital with renowned pianist Igor Levit. In summer 2020 she will be a guest at the Salzburg Festival and the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. In December 2020 Julia Hagen will make her debut with Dvořák's Cello Concerto in the Palace of Arts “Müpa” in Budapest with the Kodály Philharmonic Orchestra. She also plays several concerts with the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, Bruckner Orchestra Linz and Bergische Symphoniker and will be touring Japan with the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra. Chamber music highlights include appearances with the young pianists Chiara Opalio and Aaron Pilsan in Münster, Bielefeld and at the International Bruckner Festival in Linz. Following the invitation of artistic director Maximilian Hornung, she is also going to be a guest at the “VivaCello” festival in Liestal.

Between 2014 and 2016, Julia Hagen was one of six carefully selected young cellists who took part in the “Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle” by Gautier Capuçon, brought to life by the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pamela Frank, Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Torleif Thedéen, Laurence Lesser and Claudio Bohorquez round off her previous training. She is a prizewinner of the international cello competition in Liezen and the Mazzacurati cello competition. She received the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Culture Prize, as well as the Nicolas-Firmenich Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy as the best young cellist.