Prof. Kathrin ten Hagen

Kathrin ten Hagen made her debut at the age of 14 with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under Marc Andreae. Since then she has appeared internationally as a sought-after soloist and chamber musician, performing with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, the State Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Arcata Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart, the Kammersymphonie Leipzig and the USC Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Tours have taken her to Argentina, Uruguay, China, Portugal, Latvia, the Ukraine and the USA. She made her debut with her TenHagen Quartet in January 2014 in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. She has performed 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 has played in concert halls such as the Eurogress Aachen, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Great Amber Hall, the Jordan Hall in Boston, the Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall and the California Center for the Arts.

Kathrin ten Hagen has won numerous international competitions such as the Donald Portnoy International Violin Competition Georgia and the California International Young Artists Competition. She has also won first prizes at the International Marschner Competition and the Ibolyka Gyarfas Violin Competition of the Berlin Music universities. She has also won prizes at the Corpus Christi International Competition in Texas, the Max Rostal International Violin Competition and the Ruggiero Ricci Competition. At the age of 14, she was already second prize winner and winner of the Mozart Prize at the International Yfrah Neaman Violin Competition and in the same year also second prize winner at the Jakob Stainer Violin Competition.

Kathrin ten Hagen has been Professor of Violin at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar since October 2018. She also taught at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig and worked as Donald Weilerstein's assistant at the New England Conservatory. She regularly gives masterclasses for violin and chamber music at the Schlossakademie, the Euro Music Festival, the Talent Music Summer Courses & Festival Brescia and the Stuttgart International Music Week. In May 2019, she organised her own festival IMPRESSIONS in Jülich/Germany. She was a lecturer at the Young Artist Programme of the Yellow Barn Festival USA, the International Music Academy Chernihiv and the Festival Amici della Musica di Lucera/Italy.