Austrian cellist wins £80,000 bank award
OrchestrasThis year’s Credit Suisse Young Artist Award of the Lucerne Festival has gone to the pedigree Salzburg cellist Julia Hagen. Her father, uncle and aunt founded the celebrated Hagen Quartet.
Julia, 28, will receive 75,000 Swiss francs (around £80,000) and a Lucerne Festival concert next summer with the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Christian Thielemann.
„Daughter of…”: once again, politics and personal interests take over the musical world. With all due respect, who is even this woman, where is she performing? Never heard of her
Actually she performs just about everywhere and is one of the finest cellists of her generation.
With “everywhere” do you mean everywhere in Austria?
No, no she is not.
friends in high places
Not familiar much with the cello scene? I have heard good things about her for years. It is not uncommon for musicians to come from musician families. Who else do you want to discredit because of their parents? Alisa Weilerstein and Johannes Moser for starters?
It is not about discrediting someone because of their parents but rather about reflecting on whether there would have been another person with an international career (but maybe without connections) deserving of this award
@Charlotte, sure, anytime! Weilerstein can’t even hold the bow and does some weird 1/4 tone trill with two fingers in the place of a real vibrato.
Nice to see that you are not so interested in more pecuniary things, like currency exchange rates… But the pound has never been less worth than the Swiss franc on my memory, and 75,000 Swiss francs are actually worth just £68,300 today, quite far from £80,000… Good for her anyway.
75,000 CHF is closer to £68,000 or $86,000.