Naturalness and warmth, vitality and the courage to take risks: these are qualities that are mentioned when Julia Hagen’s playing is being discussed. The young cellist from Salzburg, offspring of a musical family, is just as convincing as a soloist with orchestra as she is in recital with piano or in numerous chamber music constellations alongside prominent partners. The 27-year-old, who now lives in Vienna, combines technical mastery with high artistic standards and a directly communicative approach to music-making.
Highlights of the 2022/23 season include Julia Hagen’s return to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mirga GražinytÄ—-Tyla with Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, performances of the DvoÅ™ák Cello Concerto with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana and Prague Symphony Orchestra as well as appearances with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Bruckner Orchestra Linz or Sofia Philharmonic. Moreover, she will make her North American debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As part of the Ouverture spirituelle, she will also perform Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Canticle of the Sun” at the 2023 Salzburg Festival.
Among her many chamber music activities are trio concerts with Igor Levit and Johan Dalene at London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Heidelberger Frühling, performances with the Quatuor Arod and the Hagen Quartet, and a tour of Japan in cello duo with Clemens Hagen. The young cellist makes longer stays at the Festspielfrühling Rügen, the chamber music festival of Aix-en-Provence, the Risør Festival as well as at Leif Ove Andsnes’s Rosendal Festival in Norway. Julia Hagen also has a regular collaboration with the Capuçon brothers. Renaud Capuçon is conductor and violin soloist of the Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine on a tour of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto; she meets Gautier in concerts with his “Capucelli” ensemble in Dortmund and Geneva.
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.
Music
Julia Hagen – Portrait
Moments Musicaux #25 | Clemens Hagen & Julia Hagen
Julia Hagen & Igor Levit: Beethoven Sonate Nr. 3 A-Dur op. 69, Allegro ma non tanto (Auszug)
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685 – 1750)
Cello-Suite Nr. 1 G-Dur BWV 1007
Cello-Suite Nr. 2 d-Moll BWV 1008
Cello-Suite Nr. 3 C-Dur BWV 1009
Cello-Suite Nr. 4 Es-Dur BWV 1010
​
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770 – 1827)
Cello-Sonate Nr. 2 g-Moll op. 5 Nr. 2
Cello-Sonate Nr. 3 A-Dur op. 69
Cello-Sonate Nr. 4 C-Dur op. 102 Nr. 1
​
Sieben Variationen über „Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen“ aus Mozarts
„Die Zauberflöte“ für Violoncello und Klavier Es-Dur
​
Zwölf Variationen über „Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen“ aus Mozarts
„Die Zauberflöte“ für Violoncello und Klavier F-Dur op. 66
​
Luigi Boccherini
(1743 – 1805)
Sonate Nr. 2 c-Moll für Violoncello und B.C.
Sonate Nr. 4 A-Dur für Violoncello und B.C.
Cellokonzert Nr. 9 B-Dur
​
Johannes Brahms
(1833 – 1897)
Cello-Sonate Nr. 1 e-Moll op. 38
Cello-Sonate Nr. 2 F-Dur op. 99
​
Benjamin Britten
(1913 – 1976)
Cello-Sonate C-Dur op. 65
​
Max Bruch
(1838 – 1920)
Kol Nidrei op. 47
​
Gaspar Cassado
(1897 – 1966)
Cello-Suite
​
Carl Davidoff
(1838 – 1889)
Allegro de concerto op. 11​
​
Antonín Dvorák
(1841 – 1904)
Cellokonzert Nr. 2 h-Moll op. 104
​
Edward Elgar
(1857 – 1934)
Cellokonzert e-Moll op. 85
Gabriel Fauré
(1845 – 1924)
Élégie für Violoncello und Orchester op. 24
Après un reve op. 7 Nr. 1
​
Sofia Gubaidulina
(*1931)
10 pieces for cello solo
Joseph Haydn
(1732 – 1809)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 C-Dur Hob VIIb:1
​
Dmitri Kabalewsky
(1904 – 1987)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 g-Moll op. 49
​
Édouard Lalo
(1823 – 1892)
Cellokonzert c-Moll
​
Witold Lutoslawski
(1913 – 1994)
Sacher-Variationen für Violoncello solo
​
Bohuslav Martinu
(1890 – 1959)
Variationen über ein slowakisches Thema
für Violoncello und Klavier H378
​
Davi Popper
(1843 – 1913)
Ungarische Rhapsodie op. 68 für Violoncello und Orchester
​
Papillon für Violoncello und Klavier op. 3 Nr. 4
​
Elfentanz für Violoncello und Klavier op. 39
​
Krzysztof Pendrecki
(*1933)
Violakonzert (Fassung B. Pergamenschikow)
​
Ottorino Respighi
(1879 – 1936)
Adagio con Variazioni P 133 für Violoncello und Orchester
​
Gioacchino Rossini
(1792 – 1868)
Une larme
​
Robert Schumann
(1810 – 1856)
Cellokonzert a-Moll op. 129
​
Fantasiestücke a-Moll op. 73 für Violoncello und Klavier
​
Adagio und Allegro As-Dur op. 70 für Violoncello und Klavier
​
Fünf Stücke im Volkstona-Moll op. 102 für Violoncello und Klavier
​
Dmitri Schostakovitch
(1906 – 1975)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 Es-Dur op. 107
Cellokonzert Nr. 2 g-Moll op. 126
Cello-Sonate d-Moll op. 40
​
Camille Saint-Saëns
(1835 – 1921)
Cellokonzert Nr. 1 a-Moll op. 33
​
Peter Tschaikowsky
(1840 – 1893)
Variationen über ein Rokoko Thema für Violoncello und Orchester op. 33
Pezzo capriccioso h-Moll op. 62 für Violoncello und Orchester
​
Henri Wieniawski
(1835 – 1880)
Scherzo-tarantelle op. 16
27.01.
03.02.
–
05.02.
08.02.
23.02.
28.02.
02.03.
10.03
11.03
17.03.
&
19.03.
21.03.
22.03.
–
26.03.
01.04.
02.04.
05.04.
14.04.
&
16.04.
21.04.
22.04.
29.04.
06.05.
&
08.05.
11.05.
23.05.
02.06.
–
04.06.
05.06.
06.06.
09.06.
&
11.06.
18.06.
27.06.
–
02.07.
04.07.
20.07.
&
21.07.
Generalmanagement
Künstleragentur
Dr.Raab & Dr.Böhm
Christopher Dingstad
Senior Artist Manager
Presse-und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit:
for artists
Maren Borchers
​