Julia Hagen

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Julia Hagen
Born1995 (age 29–30)
Salzburg, Austria
Education
OccupationClassical cellist
Awards Beethoven Ring

Julia Hagen (born 1995) is an Austrian cellist who made an international career as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She has performed at festivals such as the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Salzburg Festival and the Rheingau Musik Festival. She plays a cello on loan made in 1684 by Francesco Rugeri.

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Life and career

Hagen was born in Salzburg in 1995; [1] her father is the cellist Clemens Hagen  [ de ], the cellist of the Hagen Quartet, and her mother is also a musician. [2] She was trained in cello at the Musikum Salzburg from age four. She studied at the Mozarteum from 2007 to 2011 with Enrico Bronzi  [ de ], and studied further with Reinhard Latzko  [ de ] and Heinrich Schiff at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna until 2015, [1] and with Jens Peter Maintz  [ de ] at the Berlin University of the Arts [1] [2] until 2019. She then studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt  [ de ] at the Kronberg Academy on a scholarship. [1] [3] She took master classes with Laurence Lesser  [ de ] and Claudio Bohórquez  [ de ], among others, [1] [4] and participated in the Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle of Gautier Capuçon [1] [4] from 2014 to 2016 as one of only six cellists admitted. [3]

Hagen made her debut as a soloist at age 14 at the Brucknerhaus in Linz with the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester. She toured to European countries and Tokyo, playing at the Konzerthaus and the Musikverein in Vienna, the Barbican Centre and the Suntory Hall. [1] She was a soloist with orchestras such as the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Mozarteum Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, [3] Wiener Kammerorchester, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester  [ de ], RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo. [1]

Hagen and Capucon entering for the Brahms Double Concerto RMF Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Brahms Double Concerto, soloists entering.jpg
Hagen and Capuçon entering for the Brahms Double Concerto

At the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, she appeared in 2020 with pianist Aaron Pilsan in a livestreamed concert that included Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 1, Debussy's Cello Sonata and César Franck's Sonata. [5] She performed at the 2021 Salzburg Festival in Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in an arrangement for chamber ensemble by Hanns Eisler, with violinist Renaud Capuçon and others. [6] Other international festivals included the Beethovenfest in Bonn, Heidelberger Frühling, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, [1] Musiktage Mondsee  [ de ], Allegro Vivo  [ de ], and Internationales Alfredo Piatti Festival. [1] [4] Her concert at the 2025 Rheingau Musik Festival, playing the Double Concerto by Brahms with Renaud Capuçon and the Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jakub Hrůša at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, was recorded by Arte. [7] [8]

Hagen has played chamber music also with pianists Annika Treutler  [ de ], Stefan Vladar, Khatia Buniatishvili, Marc-André Hamelin and Igor Levit and with clarinetist Daniel Ottensamer. [1] She published her first CD with Treutler in 2019, playing works by Johannes Brahms. [9]

Hagen plays a cello on loan, which was made by Francesco Ruggeri in 1684. [1] [3] [4]

Awards

Recordings

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Julia Hagen". Kronberg Academy . 2025. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  2. 1 2 Deparade, Katharina (23 July 2018). "Als hätte das Instrument eine eigene Persönlichkeit". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Threasher, David (15 July 2025). "Cellist Julia Hagen receives 2022 Beethoven Ring Award". The Strad . Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sammern, Philipp (26 July 2015). "Julia Hagen, Violoncello". Musiktage Mondsee (in German). Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  5. ↑ "Julia Hagen". Gstaad Digital Festival (in German). 22 August 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  6. ↑ "Kammerkonzert R. Capuçon & Friends / Salzburger Festspiele". Salzburg Festival. 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  7. ↑ "Renaud Capuçon, Violine / Julia Hagen, Violoncello / Bamberger Symphoniker / Jakub Hrůša, Leitung". Rheingau Musik Festival (in German). 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  8. ↑ "Renaud Capuçon und Julia Hagen mit den Bamberger Symphonikern". Arte (in German). 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
  9. 1 2 OCLC   1101101036
  10. ↑ "Prizewinners 2014 – International Johannes Brahms Competition". International Johannes Brahms Competition. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  11. ↑ "Die Cellistin Julia Hagen erhält den Beethoven-Ring 2022". Bürger für Beethoven (in German). 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
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