Munich-born violinist Viviane Hagner has garnered exceptional praise for her insightful musicality and passionate artistry. Making her international debut at the age of 12, she took part in the legendary joint concert of the Israel and Berlin Philharmonics, conducted by Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv, a year later. Since then, Hagner has developed a depth and maturity in her playing that resonates in her stage presence and assurance.

App earing with the world's great orchestras, her concerto engagements include the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, New York Philharmonic, and the Philharmonia Orchestra, working with conductors such as Ashkenazy, Barenboim, Eschenbach, and Salonen. This season she joins the Taiwan Philharmonic for Britten's Violin Concerto, returns to the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Poznań Philharmonic, and performs with the Stuttgart Philharmonic under Alexander Liebreich. In chamber music, she continues her acclaimed partnership with pianist Till Fellner and cellist Adrian Brendel.

Hagner is a passionate advocate for new, neglected, and undiscovered music, championing composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, and Witold Lutosławski. As dedicatee of Unsuk Chin's first Violin Concerto, she premiered the work in 2002 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester under Kent Nagano and has since performed it worldwide.

Her recordings include Vieuxtemps' Violin Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 for Hyperion, Unsuk Chin's Violin Concerto with Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony for Analekta, and, most recently, works by Tansman and Bruch with the Poznań Philharmonic on Accentus, released in March 2026.

Hagner is co-founder and Artistic Director of Krzyżowa-Music, a festival fostering cultural exchange between young and established musicians, which celebrated its tenth edition in 2024. She was recently awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her contribution to cultural exchange between Germany and Poland. She resides in Berlin and has been Professor of Violin at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts since 2013.