Kathrin ten Hagen

Kathrin ten Hagen (born December 25, 1982 in Steinfurt , Germany ) is a German violinist and professor . Kathrin ten Hagen made her debut as a 14-year-old with the Nürnberger Symphoniker under Marc Andreae. Since then she has appeared internationally as a sought-after soloist and chamber musician. Together with her siblings Leonie, Borge and Malte ten Hagen, she forms the TenHagen Quartet.

Life

Kathrin ten Hagen has been professor for violin at the Liszt University of Music Weimar since 2018 , and she also teaches at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig . Since 2015 she has been a regular lecturer for violin and chamber music at the Euro Music Festival & Academy Halle. She gave further masterclasses at the International Music Academy Chernihiv 2012, the Festival Amici della Musica di Lucera / Italy 2017, the Stuttgart International Music Week 2019 and the Talent Music Summer Courses & Festival Brescia / Italy 2019. She was also assistant to Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory and as a lecturer in the Young Artist program of the Yellow Barn Festival USA. She was a jury member in 2015 in Catania / Italy at the AMIGDALA International Music Competition and in 2019 at the International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists in Weimar. In May 2019 their festival "Classic Festival! MPRESS! ONS" celebrated its premiere in Jülich / Germany. Since October 2018 she has been concertmaster of the Free Orchestra Leipzig.

She performed as a soloist a. a. with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , the State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus, the KlassikPhilharmonie Hamburg, the Chamber Orchestra Arcata Stuttgart, the Chamber Symphony Leipzig, the Baroque Ensemble Boston and the USC Symphony Orchestra. She tours to Russia, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, the USA and China, among others. With her TenHagen Quartet she made her debut in January 2014 in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. She has made guest appearances at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival , the Zermatt Festival and the Yellow Barn Festival in the USA and played in concert halls such as the Eurogress Aachen , the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg and the Liederhalle in Stuttgart , Jordan Hall in Boston, WeillRecital Hall / Carnegie Hall, and the California Center for the Arts. She was invited as a guest concert master by the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and the Chamber Orchestra Arcata Stuttgart. Their concerts were broadcast by Deutschland Radio , WDR 3 and Bayern 4 Klassik .

As a passionate chamber musician, she has given concerts with Wen-Sinn Yang , Gregor Horsch, Peter Frankl, Gerald Fauth, Stefan Palm , Katharina Deserno, Riccardo Bovino and Mirjam Tschopp . As part of the Chamber Music Foundation Villa Musica , she performed a. a. with Silke Avenhaus, Quirine Viersen , Jens Peter Maintz and Gustav Rivinius and took part in a concert tour to China in 2009. In 2006 she was a prizewinner at the International Max Reger Competition for Chamber Music. In recent years she has been involved in outreach and talk concerts in both the USA and Germany in order to win a wider audience for classical music. She plays regularly for the “Rhapsody in School” project founded by Lars Vogt . She is particularly interested in contemporary music. Her repertoire includes, on the one hand, a large number of works of classical modernism, on the other hand, numerous works composed after 1970 by composers such as Henze, Eberhardt, Lutoslawski, Marschner, Balassa, Suslin, Taglietti, Widmann, Yun and Zimmermann. At the Ruggiero Ricci Violin Competition in 2007 she received a special prize for interpreting the contemporary work "Etude IV" by Jörg Widmann. Kathrin ten Hagen studied with Antje Weithaas in Berlin and with Igor Ozim in Salzburg, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts with distinction. As a DAAD scholarship holder, she continued her master's degree with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 2007 , where she received her “Master of Music with Honors” in 2009 and her “Graduate Diploma” in 2010. International master classes with Thomas Brandis , Zakhar Bron , Robert Mann, Wolfgang Marschner and Christian Tetzlaff gave her further artistic impulses .

Awards

1997 Second prize at the 4th Jakob Stainer Violin Competition
1997 Second prize at the 6th Yfrah Neaman International Violin Competition and special prize for the best Mozart interpretation
1998 first prize in the national competition Jugend Musiziert in the violin solo category
2001–2013 laureate of the competitions of the German Musical Instrument Fund in the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben
2002 sponsorship award at the International Max Rostal Competition
2002 first prize at the 12th Ibolyka Gyarfas violin competition of the Berlin conservatoires
2005 First prize at the 4th International Marschner Competition
2007 First prize and gold medal at the California International Young Artists Competition in Escondido / San Diego
In 2008 third place in the sound and explanation competition at Rundfunk Berlin
2009 First prize at the Donald Portnoy International Violin Competition in Augusta / Georgia

Discography

2013 Musique Romantique , works for violin, viola and two cellos by Arensky, Sauter and Tschaikowsky; TenHagen Quartet and Matthias Bartolomey , Label: ARS Produktion , ARS 38 142
2013 Eastern Impressions , works by Prokofiev, Janácek, Bartók and Vladigerov; Kathrin ten Hagen, violin, Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano, label: ARS Produktion, ARS 38 147
2014 Northern Lights , works by Bull, Vasks, Atterberg, Eliasson, Sibelius; Kathrin ten Hagen, violin, Itamar Ringel, viola, Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen under the direction of Johannes Klumpp, label: ARS Produktion, ARS 38 157

Publications

2018 Article The Violin Channel - ASK THE PROS | Violinist Kathrin ten Hagen - “What Do Conservatories Look For in Potential New Students?” [ADVICE]

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personal data
SURNAME	Hagen, Kathrin ten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German violinist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steinfurt , Germany