Naturalness and warmth, vitality and the courage to take risks – such qualities are regularly mentioned when Julia Hagen’s playing is mentioned. The 28-year-old cellist, who comes from Salzburg and now lives in Vienna, combines technical mastery with a high artistic standard and an immediately communicative approach to music-making. Julia Hagen impresses as a soloist with orchestra as well as in recital with piano or in numerous chamber music constellations, including in trio concerts with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, in London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Vienna Musikverein as well as in her performances of Sofia Gubaidulina’s »Sonnengesang« with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Salzburg Festival.

Concert highlights of the 2023/24 season include concerts with the Dresden Philharmonic under Krzysztof Urbański, followed by a European tour, and with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia under Jonathan Bloxham. The cellist also returns to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Andrés Orozco-Estrada and makes her debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, including concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris. Further debuts will take the musician on a tour of Switzerland with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under the designated chief conductor Petr Popelka and to the Grafenegg Festival with the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies. The cellist will also appear with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for the first time, making her debut in Bremen.