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 debuted in Hamburg in October 2024. Following its resounding success, the festival moves on to Weimar, Berlin, Leipzig and Salzburg.
On the operatic stage 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. Further highlights were a new production of Mozart's Magic Flute at the Berlin State Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) at the Mozartwoche Salzburg and at the Salzburg Festival, a staged version of Romeo Castellucci's Mozart Requiem under Raphaël Pichon in Naples, Tamino in Mozart's Magic Flute in Cleveland under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, followed by a new production of Mozart's Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera in January 2025. In the new season, Julian Prégardien can be heard as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and as Oronte in a new production of Handel's Alcina at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, as well as in a new production of Monteverdi's l'Orfeo at the Schwetzingen Festival. Summer 2025 sees his return to the Salzburg Festival with a semi-staged production entitled ‘Zaide oder der Weg des Lichts’ under the direction of Raphaël Pichon.
Julian Prégardien has become a firm favourite on the international concert scene. Recent highlights include a tour with Concentus Musicus under Stefan Gottfried, concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, his debut at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra St. Luke's under Bernard Labadie, as well as concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Riccardo Muti, the Tonhalle Orchestra and Alondra de la Parra, the Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, and La Cetra under Andrea Marcon. Notable highlights were Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, Bach's St John Passion with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the Thomaskantor Andreas Reize and with the Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon.
Julian Prégardien was ‘Artiste Ètoile’ of the Mozartfest Würzburg in 2019. In the 2025-2026 season, he takes up the position of Artist in Residence at the Wiener Konzerthaus, where he can be heard in recitals with Sir András Schiff and in concerts with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and as part of his own series of concerts entitled ‘Schubert for everyone’. Other highlights of the 2025-2026 season include Bach's Mass in B minor with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Thomas Reize, concerts with the Camerata Salzburg, Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk, concerts with Christoph Prégardien and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Haydn's The Seasons with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, orchestrated Schubert Lieder with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst, Bach's St Matthew Passion under Raphaël Pichon, Zender's Winterreise with the Ensemble Modern, and Mahler's Rückert Lieder with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Cornelius Meister.
In addition to recitals throughout Europe, he will perform Schubert in recital with Sir András Schiff at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Kronberg Academy and perform Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin together with Kristian Bezuidenhout at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the International Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart.
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 was until December 2024 the artistic director of the Brentano Academy in Aschaffenburg.
2025 | 2026
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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
Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise, D 911, op 89
Julian Prégardien (Tenor)
Els Biesemans (Piano)
Franz Schubert: Die Winterreise, D 911, op 89
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Daniel Heide, Klavier
Ilker Arcayürek, Tenor
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Konstantin Krimmel, Baritone
Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Bass
Daniel Heide, Piano
Franz Schubert: Quartets for four male voices
Beitrag zur fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier des Herrn von Salieri, Naturgenuß, La pastorella al prato, Gesang der Geister über den Wassern (D 538), Lied im Freien, Das Dörfchen, Im Gegenwärtigen Vergangenes, Die Nachtigall, Frühlingsgesang, Geist der Liebe, Die Nacht, Gondelfahrer, Wehmut, Trinklied aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, Nachtmusik, Wein und Liebe
Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin op. 25, D 795
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Daniel Heide, Piano
Manuela Linshalm, Puppeteer, Narration
Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin D795
Poetry by Wilhelm Müller and Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus "Sichtweisen der Müllerin"
Julian Pregardien, Tenor
Daniel Heide, Piano
Manuela Linshalm, Puppeteer
CONTACT
Representation: World
- Helga Machreich-Unterzaucher
- +43 (0)5 06 80-012
- machreich@machreich-artists.com
