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 29-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 “UBS Young Artist Award” 2024, which includes a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Christian Thielemann at the Lucerne Festival.
Highlights of the 2024/25 season include concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona. Of particular note is her US debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst. In Dortmund, Julia Hagen is one of the “Junge Wilden”, young up-and-coming soloists who demonstrate their versatility over three seasons – as a soloist, chamber musician and with orchestra.
She also returns to the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla with a concert at the Vienna Musikverein.
Among her many chamber music activities, her trio concert with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon in the Berlin Philharmonie and her chamber music tour through Germany and Italy with a Schönberg-Brahms program are particularly worth mentioning. She continues to perform with Anneleen Lenaerts and Lukas Sternath.
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.
Edvard Grieg: Cow Call from 19 Norwegian Folk Tunes, op.66 no.1
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Opening speech
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no.1 in D minor, op.49
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Interval
Geirr Tveitt: Three Songs
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Knut Vaage: Bumerang
Opus13 (String Quartet)
Edvard Grieg: Songs, op.33 no.6-12
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Intermezzo for cello og piano
Julia Hagen (cello), James Baillieu (piano)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: From Seven Childen’s Songs, op.61
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Knut Christian Jansson (piano)
Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, op.113
Timothy Ridout (viola), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Interval
Geirr Tveitt: Piano Sonata No.29, "Sonata etere", op.129
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
«Grieg in Hardanger 1»
Letters from Edvard and Nina Grieg
Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Edvard Grieg: Andantino serioso, op.28 no.4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto, EG116
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Beside the Stream, op.33 no.5
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 no.2-3
Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sarabande and Rigaudon from Holberg’s Suite, op.40
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
«Grieg in Hardanger 1»
Letters from Edvard and Nina Grieg
Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Edvard Grieg: Andantino serioso, op.28 no.4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto, EG116
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Beside the Stream, op.33 no.5
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 no.2-3
Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sarabande and Rigaudon from Holberg’s Suite, op.40
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
«Grieg in Hardanger 1»
Letters from Edvard and Nina Grieg
Ragnhild Gudbrandsen
Edvard Grieg: Andantino serioso, op.28 no.4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Andante con moto, EG116
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Beside the Stream, op.33 no.5
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 no.2-3
Yulianna Avdeeva, James Baillieu (piano)
Edvard Grieg: Sarabande and Rigaudon from Holberg’s Suite, op.40
Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
«Ravel 150!»
Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Cecilie Løken (flute)
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Cecilie Løken (flute), Björn Nyman (clarinet), Opus13 (String Quartet), Ida Aubert Bang (harp)
Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)
Maurice Ravel: 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, M.64
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Edvard Erdal (violin), Albin Uusijärvi (viola), Daniel Thorell (cello), Cecilie Løken, Sigrid Holmstrand (flutes), Björn Nyman, Marita Elise Holme (clarinets), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Interval
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio
Johan Dalene (violin), Julia Hagen (cello), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Louis Vierne: Piano Quintet, op.42
Johan Dalene, Sonoko Miriam Welde (violins), Timothy Ridout (viola), Julia Hagen (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Interval
Arne Nordheim: From Three Unexpected Songs: 2. Ore, fermate il volo
Daniel Sæther (countertenor), “Ensemble C4”
Biagio Marini: Balletto secondo, op.22 no.2
«Ensemble C4»
Knut Vaage: “Opp av jorda” (Spring) (World première) text: Ruth Lillegraven
Daniel Sæther (countertenor), “Ensemble C4”
“Grand Finale in Three Parts”
Alesandro Scarlatti: Sinfonia di concerto grosso no.8 in G major
«Ensemble C4»
Edvard Grieg: From Six Romances, op.39
Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), James Baillieu (piano)
Henri Duparc: Three Songs
Eirik Grøtvedt (tenor), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano)
Geirr Tveitt: 3 Folk Tunes from Hardanger
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Knut Vaage: “kom lindereid kom” (Summer) (World première) text: Erlend O. Nødtvedt
Daniel Sæther (countertenor), “Ensemble C4”
Interval
Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-flat Major, op.20
Opus13 (String Quartet), Johan Dalene, Oda Holt Günther (violins), Timothy Ridout (viola), Julia Hagen (cello)
Interval
Antonio Vivaldi: Trio Sonata no.12 in D minor, RV 63 “Follia Variations”
«Ensemble C4»
Louis Andriessen: Workers Union
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