Bio-sigrid hagn

The Austrian pianist Sigrid Hagn was graduated Mag. Artium
     for piano and composition at the Vienna Academy of Music
     and Performing Arts.
    

Concertation references


Studies: The Austrian pianist Sigrid Hagn holds a Master´s degree for piano and
                  composition from the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts.
                  Sigrid Hagn is performing concerts and following music projects around the
                  world. She focuses on highlighting the music of minorities and
                  composers who were discriminated againts their gender and religion.

                  Through a close cooperation with Austrian embassies, this spirit is
                  brought to a broad international audience. In her most recent project,
                 "Ariela", Sigrid Hagn pays tribute to female jewish composers whose
                  work was at the brink of forgetting.


2005       An important highlight in her career was the highly acclaimed concert
                 at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, on an invitation of the
                Austrian Embassy.

2007, 2008, 2010
                Concert tournees across Turkey. Sigrid Hagn was selected by the
                Austrian Cultural Institute Istanbul, to represent Austria in cooperation
                with the Turkish cellist Taner Türker on a concert tourthroughout
                Turkey.

2012     Sigrid Hagn played an open air-concert at the "Festival at the Park" on
               the Greek island of Paros.

2013     On the occasion of the European Capital of Culture in Marseille-
               Provence, shewas selected to represent Austria with her Quintet
               playing two concerts inAix-en- Provence.Her Mozarte-Quintet
               performed concerts at the "International Festival
               MusiqueSymphonique" in Algiers, which were broadcasted live, by the
               national Televisionstation.The program "Female Austrian Composers"
               was executed in Hungary, as aninvitation of the Austrian Cultural
               Forum, in Budapest.

2014     Performance of concerts in Kayseri and in Ankara at" The Arts Festival"
               in honourof Joseph Marx.

2015     Supported by the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign
              Affairs,Sigrid Hagn performed her program "Sounds of Exile", which is
              dedicated toAustrian composers of the 20th century who had to
              emigrate to the US, in Italy atthe Austrian Culture Forum in Rome, in
              Poland at the Austrian Culture Forum ofWarsaw and in Ukraine, at the
              International Contemporary Music Festival in thePhilharmonie of
              Lemberg.

2016    A great honour for Sigrid Hagn was the invitation to perform her
              program"Sounds of Exile" on a concert tour at Villa Aurora in Los
              Angeles, the JewishPublic Library in Montreal, and in the Austrian
              Culture Forum in Washington.

2017    Supported by the Austrian Embassy in Helsinki Sigrid Hagn performes
              theconcert program “Ariela – Jewish Women Composers” at LIMUD in
              Helsinki.

2018   France: Unesco-Headquarters Paris, Holocaust Memorial Concert
             Sigrid Hagn was invited by the Austrian Culture Forum Paris to perform
             her programme "Ariela-Jewish Women Composers"at the UNESCO
             headquaters in Paris; for the Holocaust Memorial Concert.

    Spain: Madrid, Museo del Romanticismo on the invitation of the Yehudi
             Menuhin Foundation and Ceuta, Teatro del Revellin
             Performance of the programme "Ariela"

    Netherlands: On the occasion of the Austrian Presidency of the Council
            of the European Union, the concert was realized in coproduction
            between the Jewish Cultural Quater and the Austrian Embassy.

2019  Denmark: Jewish Festival in Copenhagen - Performance
            of the programme "Ariela-Jewish Women Composers"
   United Kingdom:  Austrian Culture Forum London.

2020  Austria: Performance of the "Ariela" Programme in Anif / Salzburg.

     Türkieye: Celebrating women Composers -  A dialog of culture

2022 Slovenia: Festival - House of Tolerance, Miniteater Ljubljana.

      Hungary: Synagoge Györ, "Ariela - Jewish Women Composers"
                          Austrian Culture Forum Budapest.

      Sweden: Austrian Embassy Stockholm, "Ariela - Jewish Women Composers"

                         IHRA Internaional Holocaust Frmembrance Alliance.

      Romania: First online Concert - Music for Remembrance and Hope.

2010-present    For many years, Sigrid Hagn has been teaching piano at various
          gymasiums/highschools in Austria.