Javier Hagen
voice
Both tenor and countertenor, Javier Hagen is one of the most surprising classical singers of his generation. With an exceptional 4 octave vocal range, he has premiered more than 200 oeuvres at prestigious contemporary music festivals all over the world collaborating with some of the most distinguished 20th and 21st century composers such as Aribert Reimann, Mauricio Kagel, Pierre Mariétan, Peter Eötvös, Guo Wenjing, Stefano Gervasoni, with leading concrete poetry and constructive art artists such as Eugen Gomringer, Mauricio Rosenmann, Rolf Schroeter, Günther Uecker as well as with young aspiring composers. Javier Hagen was born in Barcelona, Spain and raised between 6 languages in Valais, Switzerland and the Mediterranean. Composition under the tutelage of Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm, vocal training as a tenor and countertenor under Roland Hermann, Alain Billard and Nicolai Gedda, Lied with Irwin Gage, Hartmut Höll and Ernst Haefliger, ancient music with Karel van Steenhoven and Kees Boeke. Guest at festivals for new and early music in Donaueschingen, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, Prague, Bologna, Milan, Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Adelaide, Riga, Avignon and Berlin. Numerous recordings for German, French, Russian, Latvian, Chinese, Czech and Swiss Radio and TV stations. Besides "standard" opera roles like Dardanus, Giulio Cesare, Zsupan and Pappacoda Javier Hagen premiered major roles in contemporary operas such as 'air à l'en verre' by Daniel Mouthon, 'eismeer' by Christoph Schiller, 'poem ohne held' by Regina Irman, 'esther de racine' by Boris Yoffe, 'Suite on The Madman's Diary' by