Cellist Julia Hagen Wins the 2024 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award

The Austrian cellist will receive CHF 75,000 and a solo appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Lucerne Festival

The 2024 Credit Suisse Young Artist Award auditions took place at the Vienna Musikverein, and the jury was headed by Michael Haefliger, Executive and Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival.

The Austrian cellist Julia Hagen has been named the recipient of the 2024 cash prize of CHF 75,000, and will also gain the opportunity to appear as a soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Christian Thielemann at the Lucerne Festival.

Born in Salzburg in 1995, Hagen began her cello studies with Enrico Bronzi in Salzburg and with Reinhard Latzko and Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. In recent years, she continued her studies with Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Kronberg Academy.

In the present season, Hagen will appear with the Dresden Philharmonic, the Orquestra Nacional de España, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

For the 2024 award, the selection committee comprised Professor Alexander Steinberger, Vice President of the Vienna Philharmonic; Stefan Pauly, Director of the Society for the Friends of Music in Vienna; the music critic Dr. Peter Hagmann; and Pamela Rosenberg, Director Emeritus of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Previous winners of the award include Kian Soltani, Sergey Khachatryan, Vilde Frang, Nicolas Altstaedt, and Sol Gabetta.