Julia Hagen

The cellist Julia Hagen, winner of the generously endowed UBS Young Artist Award ­for 2024, introduces herself to Lucerne Festival in this evening’s concert with the Vienna Philharmonic. She was born into a family of musicians in Salzburg in 1995 and began playing 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 class in Vienna 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 at the International Cello Competition in Liezen as well as at the Concorso Internazionale “Benedetto Mazzacurati” and was awarded the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Culture Prize and the Jean-Nicolas Firmenich Prize of the Verbier Festival. Julia Hagen is now a sought-after soloist appearing with many renowned orchestras. In the 2024-25 season, she will perform with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Chamber Orchestra, among others. She will also make her US debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. At the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Julia Hagen is one of the “Junge Wilde” circle of young artists who demonstrate their versatility over three seasons. She has performed as a chamber musician with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon in the Berlin Philharmonie and has also toured in this constellation with a Schoenberg-Brahms program. She additionally performs with the harpist Anneleen Lenaerts and the pianist Lukas Sternath. Her debut album, released in 2019, features the two cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms, which she recorded with Annika Treutler. Julia Hagen plays a cello built by Francesco Ruggieri in 1684, which is privately on loan.

August 2024