Dominik Wagner

OPUS Klassik winner as “Young Artist of the Year 2022”, debut at Carnegie Hall, masterclasses and concerts at the Juilliard School and the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation – at just 25 years of age, double bassist Dominik Wagner’s superlatives are overflowing.

His first solo CD with works by Giovanni Bottesini under the title Revolution of Bass was released in 2021 by the renowned German label Berlin Classics and has drawn even more attention to this exceptional up-and-coming artist. In 2023, he released his third album on the Berlin label: entitled Chapters – a double bass story, he and pianist Lauma Skride dedicate themselves to composers such as Philip Glass, Max Richter, Schubert, Debussy and Nadia Boulanger.

In his young career as a musician, Dominik Wagner has already performed with a number of outstanding European orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Camerata Salzburg and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn.

In addition to his engagements as a soloist, Dominik has a great passion for chamber music. In addition to standard works, he creates new constellations and explores new repertoire. For example, he formed a duo with jazz double bassist Georg Breinschmid and a clarinet trio with Vera Karner and Aurelia Visovan, which was honoured with the “Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis”.
His regular chamber music partners include exceptional musicians such as Beni Schmid, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Jeremias Fliedl and Kiron Atom Tellian.