#FLVfromhome: Concert of the Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle

Solo cello at the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra since September 2014

Instrument by Giovanni Grancino from 1698, kindly loaned by the Pohjola Bank Art Foundation

Winner of the first Fernand-Lindsay Career Award and of the Choquette-Symcox Prize in 2013

First prize at the Standard Life-OSM 2007 Montreal Symphonic Orchestra Competition and Radio-Canada “Revelation” for 2011-2012 for classical music.

First soloist in residence at the Orchestre Métropolitain since 2014.

Awarded travel bursaries from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres, Quebec and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well as a Career Award from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Foundation in 2015.

As a student, Charles was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, and has since then kept a profound love for orchestral playing. Over the last years, he has had the opportunity to play in world known venues such as Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Salzburg Grosses Festspielhaus and Felsenreitschule, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, London Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Barbican, or New York Avery Fisher Hall, and to work with great conductors and soloists like Herbert Blomstedt, Daniele Gatti, Christoph von Dohnányi, Emmanuel Krivine, Sir Antonio Pappano, Hans Graf, Sir Mark Elder, Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Jordan, Marin Alsop, Maurizio Benini, John Adams, Nikolaj Znaider, Guy Braunstein, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Polenzani, Leif Ove Andsnes, Emmanuel Pahud, Nicholas Angelich, or Imogen Cooper.

Over the course of his studies, Charles Hervet trained on a regular basis with Gautier Capuçon, Colin Carr, or Mario Brunello, and took part in masterclasses with Truls Mørk, Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, Wolfgang Boettcher, Christian Poltera, Reinhard Latzko, Konstantin Pfiz, David Watkin and Christophe Coin. In chamber music he got advices from Christopher Richter, Thomas Brandis, Ian Brown, the Škampa, Wihan, Artis, or Allegri Quartets in masterclasses in London or Manchester sponsored by the Wigmore Hall Trust.

Charles Hervet graduated with a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts from the Royal Academy of Music and is a laureate of Gautier Capuçon’s Classe d’Excellence at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.

Student at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid in the class of Natalia Shakhovskaya and Ivan Monighetti, with a distinction from Queen Sofia of Spain

Awarded a grant from the Mécénat Musical Société Générale in 2009, second prize at the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition (Morelia, Mexico) “Révélation Classique” ADAMI 2009

Grant holder from the Adami and the Mécénat Musical Société Générale for 2012-2013

Award winner at the Fondation Safran (2015) and Fondation de France (2014) for a recording project centring on the French sonata around 1915

Third prize at the International Music Competition Belgrade in 2010

Julia Hagen made her debut at the Brucknerhaus Linz at the age of 14, playing as soloist with the Vienna Jeunesse Orchestra. Since then she has played extensively throughout Europe and Japan, including in venues like the Wiener Konzerthaus (where she was a Great Talent in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons), Wiener Musikverein, Tonhalle Zürich, Barbican Hall and Suntory Hall. She has performed with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Tonhalle- Orchester Zürich, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, City of Birmingham Orchestra, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, I Pommerigi Musicali and the Kremerata Baltica, and has worked with conductors such as Ivor Bolton, Sir Andrew Davis, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Ingo Metzmacher, Markus Poschner, James Feddeck, Kristiina Poska and Giedrė Šlekytė. As a chamber musician, she has performed regularly with Igor Levit, Alexander Lonquich, Aaron Pilsan, Annika Treutler, Florian Boesch, Renaud Capuçon, Tobias Feldmann, Thomas Reif, Gérard Caussé, Clemens Hagen, Dominik Wagner as well as the Armida and Artemis Quartets.

In season 2022/23, she continues her close artistic partnership with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz with concerts in Linz and Montreux. Other highlights include concerts with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 2), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under Joshua Weilerstein (Haydn Cello Concerto in C major), Orchestra della Svizzera italiana under Krzysztof Urbański (Dvorak Cello Concerto), Sofia Philharmonic under Nayden Todorov (Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1), Göttingen Symphony Orchestra under Nicholas Milton (Elgar Cello Concerto) and a tour in France with the Orchestre de Chambre de Nouvelle Aquitaine together with Renaud Capuçon (Beethoven Triple Concerto). In chamber music, she will perform with Clemens Hagen on a Japan tour, Igor Levit and Johan Dalene (Heidelberger Frühling), Alexander Ullman as well as the Quatuor Arod, the Hagen Quartet and Gautier Capuçon's cello ensemble, Capucelli, among others. Since the 2021/22 season, she is also part of the debut programme of the Nikolaisaal Potsdam.

Between 2014 and 2016, Julia Hagen was one of six carefully selected young cellists who took part in the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle taught by Gautier Capuçon and supported by the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pamela Frank, Lawrence Power, Nobuko Imai, Torleif Thedéen, Laurence Lesser and Claudio Bohorquez round off her training. She is a prize winner of the international cello competition in Liezen and the Mazzacurati cello competition. She received the Hajek-Boss-Wagner Culture Prize, as well as the Nicolas-Firmenich Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy.

In 2019 Julia Hagen and her long-time chamber music partner, pianist Annika Treutler, released their first album with the two cello sonatas and transcribed songs by Johannes Brahms on Hänssler Classic. Julia Hagen plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (Cremona, 1684), which is provided to her privately.