Julian Prégardien

Julian Prégardien 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.

He is the initiator and artistic director of the Liedstadt Festival, which travels through the German-speaking countries. It took place in Hamburg for the first time in 2024, and continues in Weimar, Berlin, Leipzig and Salzburg in 2025.

As an opera singer, he has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the State Operas of Vienna, Hamburg and Munich, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and the Opéra Comique in Paris. In 2018 he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as Narraboth (Salome); he has since returned several times, most recently in 2024 as Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) and in Die schöne Müllerin and Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

On the concert platform he has recently sung with Concentus Musicus Wien, the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä, Pygmalion Choir & Orchestra under Raphaël Pichon, the Vienna Philharmonic under Welser-Möst, La Cetra under Andrea Marcon, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Riccardo Muti.

Engagements in the 2025/26 season will include Don Ottavio and Oronte (Alcina) at the Bavarian State Opera and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at the Schwetzingen Festival. On the concert platform he sings in Bach’s Mass in B minor with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, in concerts with Camerata Salzburg, in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Balthasar Neumann Choir and Ensemble and with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, in concerts with his father Christoph Prégardien and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, in Haydn’s The Seasons with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Welser-Möst, in orchestrations of Schubert Lieder with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Bach’s St Matthew Passion under Raphaël Pichon, in Zender’s Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ with the Ensemble Modern and in Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Cornelius Meister. In 2025/26 he will also be Artist in Residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus, where he will appear in numerous concerts and song recitals, including the programme ‘Schubert für alle’, which he created. He will give recitals at festivals and venues including the Kronberg Academy, the Schubertiade in Hohenems, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and at the International Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart.

Julian Prégardien’s work is documented on numerous CD recordings. He 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 professor of singing at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich and a member of the Schumann Network.