Julia Hagen honored with Young Artist Award
Cellist Julia Hagen is the winner of the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2024, which comes with prize money of 75,000 francs.
Julia Hagen was born in Salzburg in 1995 and initially studied with Enrico Bronzi in Salzburg, Reinhard Latzko and Heinrich Schiff in Vienna and finally with Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at Kronberg Academy.
The jury, chaired by Lucerne Festival Director Michael Haefliger, announced that the Austrian musician would receive the award after the final at the Vienna Musikverein. The prize is being awarded for the twelfth time and includes prize money and a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lucerne Summer Festival. Previous winners of the award include Patricia Kopatchinskaja (2002), Sol Gabetta (2004) and Vilde Frang (2012).
The prize is an initiative of the Lucerne Festival, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde Wien and the Credit Suisse Foundation. It is awarded every two years (alternating with the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes).
