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The cellist Julia Hagen, born in Salzburg in 1995, began her first lesson at the age of 5 with Detlef Mielke at the Musikum Salzburg. From 2007-2011 she studied at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Enrico Bronzi, then at the University of Vienna with Reinhard Latzko and continued there from 2013 to 2015 her studies in the class of Heinrich Schiff.
Since autumn 2015 she is a student of Prof. Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
Julia Hagen was selected to participate as one of six young cellists at Gautier Capucon's "Classe d'Excellence de Violoncell" between 2014-2016, which was made possible by the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pamela Frank, Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Torleif Thedéen, Laurence Lesser and Claudio Bohorquez complete their training.
At the age of 14, she appeared for the first time at the Brucknerhaus Linz as a soloist with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra, followed by concerts in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Norway.
She has also performed with the Valle d'Aosta Orchestra, the Quarta4 Orchestra, the Youth National Orchestra of Romania, the Sinfonica Abruzzese Orchestra, the Orchester Royal de Chambre de Wallonie and the RAI-OrchestraTorino, and has performed at major festivals such as the Beethovenfest Bonn the Allegro Vivo Festival, the Diabelli Summer, the Piatti Festival, the Festival d'Aix en Provence, the Rencontres musicales d'Evian and the Musiktage Mondsee, as well as the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Società dei concerti Trieste.
The 2017-2018 season will be followed by her debuts with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra under Paul McCreesh and at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Furthermore, she will play an extensive tour through Austria together with the pianist Annika Treutler and at the Sommets Musicaux Festival in Gstaad. She will also perform further chamber music projects together with Stefan Vladar and Daniel Ottensamer.
Julia Hagen was the first multiple national and special prize winner of "Prima La Musica" (solo and chamber music) and winner of the International Cello Competition 2010 in Liezen. In the summer of 2014 she was awarded the ESTA Special Prize at the International Brahms Competition and in October 2016 she won the international cello competition Mazzacurati in Turin and also received the Audience Award.
In the summer of 2017, she was awarded the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Culture Prize.
The young cellist was a participant in the Ozawa Academy, as well as the Verbier Festival Academy, where in 2016 she was awarded the Nicolas Firmenich Prize for Best Young Female Cellist.
She was invited to attend the chamber music project "MMM" of the Kronberg Academy as well as the chamber music project of the Vienna Philharmonic in Salzburg.
She plays a violoncello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1684), which is privately made available to her.