JAKOB WAGNER

Jakob Wagner is one of the most versatile guitarists of his generation. Whether as a specialist in early music on the lute or as an interpreter of contemporary works composed especially for him, he is equally at home in both the world of historical and modern sound. The Süddeutsche Zeitung praised him for his “wonderfully round and full tone, absolutely effortless even in the demanding passages.”

 

He studied guitar, lute, musicology and English literature in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Paris, Salzburg and Basel. As a national prize winner of Jugend musiziert, a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, the Richard Wagner Association, the Deutschlandstipendium and the Würzburg Mozart Festival, among others, and a cultural prize winner of the city of Starnberg, he was honored early on. He won further prizes at international competitions such as the Hannabach and Nordhorn competitions.

 

He can be heard regularly both as a soloist and in chamber music formations. Jakob Wagner is also a sought-after continuo player and has performed in this capacity with the Bach-Gesellschaft, the Mozarteum Orchestra, Harmonie Universelle, the BR Philharmonic Orchestra, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Dorothee Oberlinger, among others. He collaborates regularly with the conductors Gernot Sahler, Daniel Spaw and Jörn Andresen as well as with the Ensemble Lantana Camara, for whom he regularly curates programs such as “Memento Mori” (ZAMUS Festival 2025) and “Da Rotterdam a Padova” (Fel!x Festival of the Cologne Philharmonic 2024). From 2017 to 2019 he was also engaged at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.

 

Jakob Wagner is a tonebase artist and plays a guitar by Kim Lissarrague. 

 

His debut album “Pictures” will be released in autumn 2025, bringing together five new compositions, each inspired by visual art.