The tenor Julian Prégardien is one of the most outstanding vocal representatives of the younger generation. He was an ensemble member of the Frankfurt Opera from 2009 to 2013. During this time, he developed his international concert career. Song recitals and chamber music projects are especially important focuses of his artistic activity.
As an opera singer, he has appeared at the State Operas of Vienna, Hamburg and Munich, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Opéra Comique and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Since 2018 he has been a regular performer at the Salzburg Festival, where he has appeared in roles including Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and Gomatz (Zaide).
He has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Concentus Musicus Wien and Pygmalion, and has worked with conductors including Alondra de la Parra, John Eliot Gardiner, Klaus Mäkelä, Andrea Marcon, Riccardo Muti, Raphaël Pichon and Franz Welser-Möst.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season have included the title role of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Schwetzingen Festival, Oronte in Handel’s Alcina at the Munich Opera Festival, Haydn’s The Seasons with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Zurich Opera House. He has also performed with orchestras and ensembles including the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ensemble Modern and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and has explored the relationship between Mozart and his son Franz Xaver in the concert Väter und Söhne with his father Christoph and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. He was also artist in residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus and gave recitals at venues including the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and at the Schubertiade in Hohenems.
He is the initiator and artistic director of the Liedstadt Festival, launched in 2024, which travels through the German-speaking countries. In November 2025, the Festival took place in Salzburg and featured Camerata Salzburg as its artistic partner.
Julian Prégardien is an exclusive artist with the label harmonia mundi, with which he released a recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Kristian Bezuidenhout in 2024.
Since 2017 he has been a professor of singing at the University of Music and Drama in Munich and a member of the Schumann Network.
