TENOR
Julian Prégardien
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Julian Prégardien was born in Frankfurt and received his earliest musical training as a chorister in the Limburg Cathedral choirs. Following his studies in Freiburg and his time with the Académie du Festival Aix-en-Provence, he became a member of the Frankfurt Opera ensemble from 2009 to 2013, alongside which he began to develop an international concert career.
Today Julian Prégardien is a leading figure among the next generation of classical vocal artists. His vocal clarity, together with his deep connection to the text and its expression make him a sought-after Lied interpreter. Recitals and chamber music projects hold a particular significance in Julian Prégardien’s artistic work. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the creation of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, he performed the masterpiece across 10 diverse venues in Vienna in autumn 2023, inspiring the artist to found and lead the "Liedstadt" Festival, which debuts in Hamburg in October 2024. The festival will present artists in a variety of formats around the concept of "Lied".
As an opera soloist, he has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas and the Opéra Comique in Paris. In 2018 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Narraboth in Richard Strauss’ Salome (directed by Romeo Castellucci) with the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst. In 2019 came his debut as Tamino in a new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Berlin State Opera under the baton of Alondra de la Parra. At the Mozartwoche 2023 he received critical acclaim for his debut as Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni conducted by András Schiff, while at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples he performed in a stage version of Romeo Castellucci's Mozart Requiem under Raphaël Pichon. In May 2024 came his success as Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute in Cleveland, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst and directed by Nikolaus Habjan. The close collaboration with Franz Welser-Möst continues in January 2025 with a new production of the same work at the Vienna State Opera.
Julian Prégardien was named "Artiste Ètoile" of the Mozartfest Würzburg in 2019, where he performed with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, among others. Recent highlights have included a tour with Concentus Musicus under Stefan Gottfried, his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, and his Carnegie Hall debut with Orchestra of St. Luke's under Bernard Labadie. In addition, Julian Prégardien has performed with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, with the Tonhalle Orchester and Alondra de la Parra, with the Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon and with La Cetra under Andrea Marcon. A notable highlight was the performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst, Bach's St John Passion with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the Thomaskantor Andreas Reize, and the St Matthew Passion with the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe.
In summer 2024 Julian returns to the Salzburg Festival as Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni and as the Evangelist in Bach's St Matthew Passion, both under the direction of Teodor Currentzis. Further highlights of the 2024-25 season include Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the DSO in Berlin, Haydn's Creation and a tour of Beethoven's Missa solemnis together with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and Thomas Hengelbrock. With Monteverdi's L'Orfeo he performs with Les Èpopées and Stéphane Fuget in Dortmund and Versailles, takes Bach's St John Passion on tour with the Ensemble Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, and sings Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings with the Munich Chamber Orchestra.
In addition to recitals throughout Europe, he will perform Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin with Sir András Schiff at the Salzburg Festival, the Klosters Music festival, London's Wigmore Hall and in Vicenza. Together with Kristian Bezuidenhout, he will give recitals at the Schwetzingen Festival, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.
Julian Prégardien has released Schubert's Winterreise, his Schwanengesang and Schumann's Dichterliebe with Alpha Classics. He is an exclusive artist with Harmonia Mundi, under which his recording of Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin, with Kristian Bezuidenhout on the fortepiano, was released in August 2024. Off stage, he has been a professor at the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre’s vocal department since 2017, a member of the Schumann Network and until December 2024 the artistic director of the Brentano Academy in Aschaffenburg.
2024 | 2025
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DISCOGRAPHY
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin
Julian Prégardien
Piano: Kristian Bezuidenhout
Label: Harmonia Mundi | August 2024
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Julian Prégardien, Gwendoline Blondeel, Marie Perbost, Eva Zaicik, Cyril Auvity, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Luigi de Donato, Vlad Crosman, Paul Figuier
Les Épopées
Conductor: Stéphane Fuget
Label: Château de Versailles | June 2024
Schubert/Mendelssohn: Schwanengesang | String Quintet
Julian Prégardien
Piano: Martin Helmche
Violin: Christian Tetzlaff & Florian Donderer
Viola: Rachel Roberts
Cello: Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
Label: Alpha Classics | 2021
Schumann: Dichterliebe
Julian Prégardien, Sandrine Piau
Piano: Eric Le Sage
Label: Alpha Classics | 2018
VIDEOS
CALENDAR
Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion BWV 245
Julian Prégardien, Evangelist
Huw Montague Rendall, Jesus
Christian Immler, Pilate
Ying Fang, Soprano
Lucile Richardot, Alto
Laurence Kilsby, Tenor
Choir & Orchestra Pygmalion
Raphaël Pichon, Conductor
Bertrand Couderc, lighting
Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, D 795
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Sir András Schiff, Piano
Julian Prégardien, Artistic Co-Director Liedstadt
Kian Jazdi, Artistic Co-Director Liedstadt
As part of the "Dortbunt" city festival, tenor Julian Prégardien is embarking on a musical tour through the city. He is bringing projects from "Liedstadt" to Dortmund, which he founded as a travelling festival with new perspectives on song. With their stories of love, myths, pain, nature - in fact of everything that moves us in life - songs want to be shared. Prégardien is passionate about their impact on our everyday lives and society. In the "Urban Lied" format, which he tailors to Dortmund like the programme for the entire day, the singer travels through the city with a mobile piano and gives short concerts in publicly accessible locations.
Schubert and other masters of song will also be heard anew on the stage in front of the Konzerthaus: Prégardien & Friends build a bridge between the genre of acoustic singer-songwriters and the great song composers of the past. Their songs are rediscovered through the lens of a modern musical vocabulary and lovingly brought back to life. A whole city full of songs.
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETSRequested songs by Franz Schubert
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Anna Gebhardt, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fällt, BWV 18
Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht, BWV 55
Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, du süße Todesstunde, BWV 161
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Aleksandra Lewandowska, soprano
William Shelton, altus
Stephan MacLeod, bass
Gli Angeli Genève - Stephan MacLeod
CONTACT
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
