Continuum XXI
Ensemble Modern
hr-Bigband
hr-Sinfonieorchester
IEMA-Ensemble 2025/26
Synergy Vocals
Trondheim Voices
Alberto Arroyo
Hed Bahack
Sylvain Cambreling
Helena Cánovas Parés
Pia Davila
Caio de Azevedo
Justine Emard
Bernard Foccroulle
Georg Friedrich Haas
John Hollenbeck
Eloain Lovis Hübner
Justė Janulytė
Michael Jarrell
Malika Kishino
Eungjin Lee
Lucie Leguay
Leon Liang
Brad Lubman
Sarah Nemstov
Felicitas Magdalena Pfaus
Julian Prégardien
Steve Reich
Diego Ramos Rodríguez
Rebecca Saunders
Yixie Shen
Miroslav SRNKA
Toby Thatcher
Thierry Tidrow
Stefan Weiller
Adriane Westerbarkey
Haotian Yu
Artist
© Peter RigaudJulian Prégardien
Julian Prégardien was born in Frankfurt and received his earliest musical training as a chorister in the Limburg Cathedral choirs. After studying in Freiburg and at the Academy of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he joined the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera, while simultaneously launching an international concert career.
As an opera singer, he has appeared at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas, the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Salzburg Festival, the Berlin State Opera, and the Salzburg Mozart Week. Recent highlights include performances as ›Tamino‹ (The Magic Flute) at the Vienna State Opera in 2025 and with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst in 2024, as well as ›Don Ottavio‹ (Don Giovanni) at the Salzburg Festival. In the current season, he can be heard as Don Ottavio and Oronte (Handel’s Alcina) in a new production at the Bavarian State Opera, and in Monteverdi’s ›L’Orfeo‹ at the Schwetzingen Festival.
A frequent collaborator with leading orchestras such as Concentus Musicus Wien, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ensemble Pygmalion, the Vienna Philharmonic, La Cetra, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prégardien has worked under conductors including Franz Welser-Möst, Klaus Mäkelä, Raphaël Pichon, Andrea Marcon, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and Riccardo Muti.
In the 2025/26 season he is Artist in Residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus, appearing in recital with Sir András Schiff, in concert with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and in his own curated series ›Schubert for All‹.
A central focus of his artistry is the Lied genre. To mark the 200th anniversary of Schubert’s ›Die schöne Müllerin‹, Prégardien performed the cycle across Vienna in 2023 and subsequently founded the festival Liedstadt, which premiered in Hamburg in 2024 and will tour to Weimar, Berlin, Leipzig, and Salzburg. His recording of ›Die schöne Müllerin‹ with Kristian Bezuidenhout was released by Harmonia Mundi in 2024.