The 1984 Frankfurt-born singer received his musical education with the Limburg Cathedral Choir and at the Conservatory of Freiburg. The young tenor has received a lot of attention particularly for his interpretations of J.S. Bach’s Evangelist roles.

Among his numerous acclaimed appearances in the course of the 2015/2016 season, Julian Prégardien’s rendition of Hylas in ›Les Troyens‹ (Berlioz) caused a sensation at the opening night of the Hamburg Staatsoper under the baton of Kent Nagano. In July 2017, the young tenor will give his debut performance at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in the title role of Carl Maria von Weber’s Oberon.

Concert appearances during the 2016/17 season will include concerts with Bach’s St Matthew Passion with René Jacobs, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with András Schiff and Handel arias with Berlin’s Akademie für Alte Musik. He will return to the Salzburger Festspiele with Ádám Fischer.

At Dresden Musikfestspiele and other venues, Julian is scheduled to appear in a special Monteverdi project along with his father Christoph Prégardien and Anima Eterna Brugge conducted by Jos van Immerseel.

Julian Prégardien is also one of the renowned soloists featured in a major project co-hosted by the Schubertiade in Hohenems/Schwarzenberg (Austria) and by London Wigmore Hall, consisting in the complete performance of all Schubert lieder in a series of recitals held between 2015 and 2017.

Sarah Christian’s wish is to convey the honest emotion and energy of classical music to her listeners. In her artistic life, she enjoys combining all influences, not having to compromise anything in her many roles as soloist, chamber musician, the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen’s concert master or as Artistic Director of a chamber music series in her home town of Augsburg. Here she makes the highest demands on herself. Her focus, when studying scores, is always on the music itself, which she approaches with the greatest respect. Her most important teacher is Antje Weithaas, with whom she studied at the Hanns Eisler Music College in Berlin and whose assistant she later became. As professor, Sarah Christian supervises her own class at the Stuttgart College of Music and Performing Arts.

One of her greatest competition success is the ARD Music Competition 2017, at which she won 2nd Prize (no 1st prize was awarded). She also won the audience prize and the Munich Chamber Orchestra’s special prize. Sarah Christian has performed in many European countries, as well as in China, Japan, South America and The United States. As soloist, she has played with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia. She gave her debut at Carnegie Hall with the Bavarian State Orchestra in March 2018. Her Debut CD (GENUIN, 2017), featuring Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 and Schubert’s C Major Fantasy has been greatly praised by the press »Sarah Christian’s solo debut is simply fantastic! This violinist has proven to be an extremely sensitive interpreter and she is technically quite simply unimpeachable.« (klassik.com).