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Mozarteumorchester Salzburg

07.06.24 - 09.06.24

about the tour.

The cellist Julia Hagen was born into a family of musicians in Salzburg. After studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, she continued her education in Vienna at the age of 16 at the Musikhochschule with Heinrich Schiff. Numerous prizes and international performances drew attention to the young artist. She not only has a longstanding collaboration with the Mozarteum Orchestra, but also a family connection: her grandfather was already the orchestra’s concertmaster.


Programm 1:
Werk: tbc

Peter I. Tschaikowsky: Variationen op. 33 über ein Rokoko-Thema für Violoncello und Orchester

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Franz Schubert: Sinfonie Nr. 8 C-Dur D 944 ("Große C-Dur Sinfonie" - alte Nr. 9) (1825)


Programm 2:
Werk: tbc

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Klavierkonzert Nr. 22 Es-Dur KV 482

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Franz Schubert: Sinfonie Nr. 8 C-Dur D 944 ("Große C-Dur Sinfonie" - alte Nr. 9) (1825)

 

 

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An Orchestra full of experience.

Biography – about the orchestra.

Wherever it performs, the Mozarteum Orchestra delights audiences and concert critics with its lively and refreshing performances. The orchestra of the province and city of Salzburg, whose roots go back to the "Dommusikverein und Mozarteum" (Cathedral Music Society and Mozarteum), which was founded in 1841 with the support of Mozart's widow Constanze and his sons, now numbers around 90 musicians and has become one of Austria's top orchestras with its distinctive sound culture. With its interpretations of Viennese classical music, above all the works of Mozart, it celebrates extraordinary successes worldwide. In 2016, it became the first orchestra after the Vienna Philharmonic to be awarded the Golden Mozart Medal for this achievement.

Renowned principal conductors such as Leopold Hager, Hans Graf, Hubert Soudant, Ivor Bolton and most recently Riccardo Minasi have decisively shaped the Mozarteum Orchestra in recent decades. Constantinos Carydis, Andrew Manze, Reinhard Goebel, Jörg Widmann and Honorary Conductor Ivor Bolton are particularly closely associated with the renowned orchestra as permanent guest conductors. In May 2023, Roberto González-Monjas was introduced as the designated principal conductor, who will take office for the 2024/25 season.


The orchestra enriches Salzburg's cultural landscape with its own concert series at the Mozarteum Foundation, the Großes Festspielhaus and, since 2020, its own Orchesterhaus.

At the Salzburg Festival, the Mozarteum Orchestra has played an important role every year for more than 90 years, especially with its Mozart Matinees. It also performs concerts as part of the Salzburg Mozart Week and as a partner of the Salzburg Cultural Association. At the Salzburg Landestheater, the Mozarteum Orchestra can be experienced in musical theater performances throughout the year. In addition, there are regular guest performances in Europe, Asia, North and South America. The orchestra's diverse range of works spanning almost all musical epochs is documented in an impressive discography that has won several awards.

The long-standing cooperation with Leica as main sponsor will fortunately be continued in the 2023/24 season.

A KD SCHMID touring orchestra

SEASON 2023/2024

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Jonathan Bloxham

Jonathan Bloxham © Kaupo Kikkas

Jonathan Bloxham begins his tenure as Music Director of the Luzerner Theater this season, conducting “La bohème”, “Dido and Aeneas” and “I Montecchi e I Capuleti”, after having debuted in 2022 with Bluebeard’s Castle. He made his Glyndebourne Festival debut in 2021 with Luisa Miller, also conducting “Don Pasquale” for Glyndebourne Touring Opera.

This is his second season as Resident Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the London Mozart Players.

Guest highlights of 2023/24 include NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra and a return tour with The Philharmonic Brass, consisting of musicians from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, culminating in a televised concert from the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg. Last season he made his Japan debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.


After taking up conducting in his mid-20’s, Bloxham became Assistant Conductor at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 2016 – 18 under Mirga Gražynite-Tyla, assisted Paavo Järvi, and was invited to conduct the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen on several occasions. He has since conducted orchestras across Europe.

He has recorded albums with the London Symphony Orchestra (2022) and Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (2021, Strauss and Cesar Franck), described as “irresistible” by Musicweb International.

Artistic Director of the Northern Chords Festival, he has commissioned young composers such as Vlad Maistorovici, Jack Sheen and Freya Waley Cohen. Jonathan studied conducting with Sian Edwards, Michael Seal, Nicolas Pasquet and Paavo Järvi, after having learnt the cello at the Menuhin School and at Guildhall. A former cellist, he made his concerto debut at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2012.

2023/2024 THIS BIOGRAPHY IS AVAILABLE BY COURTESY OF DR. RAAB & DR. BÖHM

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Julia Hagen, Viola

Julia Hagen © Julia Wesely

Naturalness and warmth, vitality, and the courage to take risks: These qualities are often used to describe Julia Hagen’s playing. The young cellist from Salzburg, offspring of a musical family, is just as convincing as a soloist with orchestra as she is in recital or in numerous chamber music constellations alongside prominent partners. The 28-year-old, who now lives in Vienna, combines technical mastery with high artistic standards and a direct, communicative approach to musicmaking.

Highlights of the 2023/24 season include concerts with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Krzysztof Urbański with a subsequent European tour, as well as Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (Enrico Onofri), Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia (Jonathan Bloxham), Orquesta Nacional de España (Giovanni Antonini), Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra (Julian Rachlin) and Kammerakademie Potsdam (Paul McCreesh). She 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 with concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris and Wiener Musikverein. Additional debuts take her on tour to Switzerland with the Wiener Symphoniker under their designated Principal Conductor, Petr Popelka, and to the Grafenegg Festival with the Brno Philharmonic under Dennis Russell Davies.


Amongst her many chamber music activities, her trio concerts with Igor Levit and Renaud Capuçon at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein and her performances of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Canticle of the Sun with the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Salzburger Festspiele are particularly worth mentioning. Other chamber music partners include Anneleen Lenaerts, Mao Fujita, Lukas Sternath, Nikolai Lugansky and Sir András Schiff.

Julia Hagen began playing the cello at the age of five. Her training with Enrico Bronzi in Salzburg and Reinhard Latzko in Vienna was followed by formative years in Heinrich Schiff’s Viennese class from 2013 to 2015, and finally by studies with Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts in Berlin. As a Kronberg Academy scholarship holder, Hagen also studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt until 2022. She was a prize winner of the Liezen International Cello Competition and the Mazzacurati Cello Competition and was awarded the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Culture Prize and the Nicolas Firmenich Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy as the best young cellist, among other prizes.

In 2019, she released her first album together with Annika Treutler with the two cello sonatas by Johannes Brahms on Hänssler Classic. Further recordings are in preparation. Julia Hagen plays an instrument by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1684), which is privately on loan to her.

SEASON 2023/2024 - THIS BIOGRAPHY IS AVAILABLE BY COURTESY OF DR. RAAB & DR. BÖHM KÜNSTLERARGENTUR.

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