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Clemens Hagen

Born into a family of musicians in Salzburg, Clemens Hagen received his first lessons at the age of six. Two years later he began his studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum Conservatory, before moving to the Basel Hochschule für Musik in Switzerland. Studied under Wilfried Takezi and Heinrich Schiff.

In addition to numerous first prizes, in 1983 he received the special prize of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Karl Böhm Prize.

As a soloist, he has performed with internationally renowned orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Chamber music is an important part of his solo career, and the Hagen Quartet has been performing all over the world for 40 years, with over 45 CDs released by Deutsche Grammophon.

Gidon Kremer, Renaud Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Christian Tetzlaff, Yuja Wang, Evgeny Kissin, Mitsuko Uchida, Martha Argerich, Hélène Grimaud, Kirill Gerstein, Stephan Vlader , Leif Ove Andsnes, and Sabine Meyer.

In 2003, he was invited by the late Claudio Abbado to join the newly founded Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He is still active as a member of the orchestra.

Since the 2018/19 season, he has been the cellist of the Vienna Piano Trio.

Since 1988, he has been teaching cello and chamber music at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, and since 2003 he has been teaching the younger generation as a professor at the same university.

The instrument used is a Stradivarius made in 1698 (produced by Antonio Stradivari).

Julia Hagen

Born in Salzburg in 1995, cellist Julia Hagen is one of the most promising instrumentalists of her generation. At the age of five, he took his first lessons with Detlef Mirke at the Salzburg Conservatory. After that, he studied at the Mozarteum Conservatory with Enrico Bronzi, at the University of Vienna with Reinhard Ratsko, and from 2013-2015 with Heinrich Schiff. In 2015, he moved to Berlin University of the Arts and studied under Jens-Peter Mainz. Since 2019, he has been working under Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt as a scholarship student at the Kronberg Academy.

At the age of 14, he made his debut as a soloist with the Vienna Youth Orchestra at the Brucknerhaus. Since then, he has performed in various places in Europe and Japan, including the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Vienna Musikverein, the Tonhalle, the Barbican Hall, and the Suntory Hall.

He has performed with orchestras such as the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, and the Kremerata Baltica.

From 2014 to 2016, he was selected as one of six students in the “La Cras de Excellence de Violoncello” by Gautier Capuçon of the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

He has taken masterclasses with Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Pamela Frank, Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Torleif Teden, Lawrence Lesser and Claudio Bohorquez.

He won prizes at the Liezen International Cello Competition and the Benedetto Mazzaclarti International Cello Competition, and has won various awards as the best young cellist, including the Hajek Boss Wagner Cultural Award (a cultural award given to young innovative musicians). there is

In 2019, together with her longtime chamber music partner, pianist Annika Trautler, she released her first album on Hänssler Classic, which includes two cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms and several pieces written for the cello.

The instrument used is Francesco Ruggelli (made in 1684) loaned from an individual.