Happy Birthday, VC Artist William Hagen!

A graduate of the Colburn School and the Kronberg Academy, William is a former major prize winner at the Kreisler and Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competitions

Today is American violinist, VC Young Artist William Hagen’s 31st birthday!

Hagen hails from Salt Lake City, where he started playing the violin at age 4 studying the Suzuki method. At 9 years old, he made his orchestral debut with the Utah Symphony. He has studied at the Colburn School with Robert Lipsett, the Juilliard School with Itzhak Perlman, and most recently at the Kronberg Academy with Christian Tetzlaff.

William has performed as soloist with the Orquesta Filharmónica de Bogotá, Seattle Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Belgian National Orchestra.

VC YOUNG ARTIST WILLIAM HAGEN | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | MARIN ALSOP & NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF BELGIUM | 2015