Julian Prégardien

Julian Prégardien was born in Frankfurt am Main and received his first musical training in the choir of Limburg Cathedral. After studying in Freiburg and at the Academy of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he was a member of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera from 2009 to 2013. He is one of the most internationally renowned concert singers of his generation.
As an opera singer, he has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Hamburg and Berlin State Operas, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Opéra Comique in Paris. In 2018 he made his Salzburg Festival debut as Narraboth in Romeo Castellucci’s production of Salome, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. In 2023 he sang Don Ottavio in a concert performance of Don Giovanni at the Salzburg Mozartwoche, and performed Mozart’s Requiem in a staged version by Romeo Castellucci in Naples.
Recent career highlights have included participation as an Artiste étoile in the Mozartfest Würzburg, a tour with Concentus Musicus Wien, his debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra and at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under John Eliot Gardiner, with Ensemble Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under András Schiff, with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Welser-Möst and with the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel under Andrea Marcon.
Highlights of the 2023/24 season will include Beethoven’s Missa solemnis under Thomas Hengelbrock in Aix-en-Provence, Bach cantatas with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Kristian Bezuidenhout and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Philippe Herreweghe. In May 2024 Julian Prégardien will sing Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) under Franz Welser-Möst in a staging by Nikolaus Habjan in Cleveland.
Song recitals and chamber music projects are especially important aspects of Julian Prégardien’s artistic career. Along with numerous song recitals throughout Europe, in autumn 2023 he will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composition of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with performances at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal and at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Kristian Bezuidenhout, and at London’s Wigmore Hall with András Schiff. Julian Prégardien is an exclusive artist for the record label Alpha Classics. He is a professor of singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, a member of the Schumann Network and artistic director of the Brentano Academy in Aschaffenburg.