Biography

Born in Salzburg, she began to learn music at the age of six with her father, who was at that time concertmaster

Concertmaster

The concertmaster/mistress is the spalla or leader, of the first violin section of an orchestra. In the UK, the term commonly used is leader...

 of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg

Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg

The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra is the symphony orchestra of the town and state of Salzburg, Austria. It was founded in 1841 and acquired its current name in 1908. It is a major participant at the Salzburg Festival....

. She then continued her studies at the Musik Hochschule of Salzburg with Professor Helmut Zehetmair and at the Musik Hochschule of Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 with Professor Hatto Beyerle. During her studies she won several prizes, including the Budapest

Budapest

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 International Viola Competition in 1984.

Hagen is a founding member of the Hagen Quartet

Hagen Quartet

The Hagen Quartet was founded in 1981 by four siblings, Lukas, Angelika , Veronika and Clemens, in Salzburg, Austria.Its current members are:* Lukas Hagen, violin...

, along with her siblings Lukas, Angelika (later replaced by Rainer Schmidt) and Clemens. The quartet has performed across the world.

She has made a number of recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical record label which was the foundation of the future corporation to be known as PolyGram. It is now part of Universal Music Group since its acquisition and absorption of PolyGram in 1999, and it is also UMG's oldest active label...

 label, including the Brahms

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

 Sonata

Sonata

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s with the pianist Paul Gulda in 1997 and Mozart's Concertante with the violinist Augustin Dumay and the Salzburg Camerata. As well as her activity as a soloist, she has performed with other leading musicians, including Elena Bashkirova

Elena Bashkirova

Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova is a Russian-born pianist and musical director.She was born in Moscow, the daughter of pianist and teacher Dimitri Bashkirov...

, Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell

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, Gérard Caussé

Gérard Caussé

Gérard Caussé is a violist.He gave the first performance of the celebrated Ainsi la nuit quartet by Henri Dutilleux. The first movement of Gérard Grisey's celebrated work, Les Espaces Acoustiques , is inscribed "à Gérard Caussé." His discography amounts to thirty recordings...

, Ivry Gitlis

Ivry Gitlis

Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He has performed with the world's top orchestras , and many of his recordings are considered classics.-Life:Born in Haifa, Mandate Palestine to Jewish immigrants from Russia,...

, Paul Gulda, Tatjana Grindenko, Steven Isserlis

Steven Isserlis

Steven Isserlis CBE is a British cellist. He is distinguished for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound and total command of phrasing. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and was much influenced by the great iconoclast of Russian cello playing, Daniil Shafran...

, Gidon Kremer

Gidon Kremer

Gidon Kremer is a Latvian violinist and conductor. In 1980 he left the USSR and settled in Germany.-Biography:Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German-Jewish and Latvian-Swedish origins. He began playing the violin at the age of four, receiving instruction from his father and his grandfather,...

, Alexander Lonquich

Alexander Lonquich

Alexander Lonquich is a German classical pianist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Trier.Studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrzej Jasínski, and Ilonka Deckers-Küszler....

 and Heinrich Schiff

Heinrich Schiff

Heinrich Schiff is an Austrian cellist and conductor. He studied cello with Tobias Kühne and André Navarra and made his solo debut in Vienna and London in 1971...

. She has also played at many international music festivals, and has performed with orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

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 and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

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Hagen plays a Giovanni Paolo Magini (Brescia) Viola from the collection of the National Bank of Austria

Oesterreichische Nationalbank

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