Julia Sophie Wagner

After her debut in 2002 with Carl Orff’s »Carmina Burana« in the Herkulessaal in Munich Julia Sophie Wagner quickly became a sought after concert singer, specializing in the vocal works of J.?S.?Bach. Recently also praised for her interpretations of the major classic and romantic oratorios, her debut of Beethovens »Missa Solemnis«, which she performed at the Kennedy Center under the baton of Julian Wachner, was voted »#1 Kennedy Center Event of 2014« by Washington Life Magazine.
Ms. Wagner has worked with renowned orchestras including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, RTVE Madrid, RAI Torino and Washington National Symphony Orchestra, Bachkollegium Stuttgart and Munich, as well as with baroque ensembles such as Ensemble Moderntimes_1800, Bachstiftung St. Gallen, Pratum Integrum Moscow and Tafelmusik Toronto. Many of these concerts were recorded for radio and tele-vision, as well as for CD and DVD.
Concert tours and guest appearances have brought her all over Europe as well as to the United States, to South America and Japan, where she performed in venues like Berlin Philharmonie, the Palau de la Musica Barcelona, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, to name a few. Ms. Wagner is frequently invited to international festivals, such as the Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Mendelssohn Festtage and the Bachfest Leipzig, Tage alter Musik Herne, the Oregon Bach Festival, and the European Music Festival Stuttgart, the Rheingau and Festival de la Chaise-Dieu.
Julia Sophie Wagner enjoys a fruitful musical friendship with Helmuth Rilling. After a successful tour of Germany with Bach’s b-minor Mass with concerts in the Liederhalle Stuttgart and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, she was invited to sing a series of concerts with Bach solo cantatas in Italy, followed by a tour throughout South America with the ensembles of the Bach Academy Stuttgart.
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach being one main focus of her work, Julia Sophie Wagner also follows her passion for chamber music. She gave various recitals and chamber concerts at the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Chamber Music Festival Hohenstaufen, the Tonhalle Zurich as well as in Japan. Paul Rivinius, Goetz Payer and Eric Schneider are amongst her musical partners.
With Eric Schneider she recently recorded a CD in co-production with the German national radio station DeutschlandradioKultur combining songs by Clara and Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Edvard Grieg. The CD will be presented at the Leipzig Bachfest in June 2015.
Julia Sophie Wagner studied at the Hochschule für Musik »Franz Liszt« in Weimar with V. Hruba-Freiberger, at McGill University in Montreal, Canada with Dr. Robert and Lucile Evans and at the HMT »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« in Leipzig with Prof. Hans-Joachim Beyer. She attended master classes of Peter Schreier, Graham Johnson and Ingrid Figur and has repeatedly worked with Edith Wiens. She has won several national and international competitions, including the International Mozart Competition in Prague, the Paula Salomon-Lindberg Competition  for contemporary song in Berlin and the Lortzing Competition Leipzig and has been awarded scholarships from the DAAD (German Government) and the Leipzig Opera, where she sang in several productions, including Le Feu and Rossignol in Ravel’s »L’enfant et les Sortileges« and Anna Reich in Otto Nicolai’s »Merry Wives of Windsor«