Judith Wagner, born in Salzburg, has won prizes at national and international competitions. In 2018 she won first prize as well as all four of the special prizes (including the City Prize for the best Beethoven interpretation) at the International Beethoven Competition in Hradec.

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In addition to her activities as a soloist, she is active as a chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher. Since 2022 she is section leader in the Festival Chamber Orchestra Zurich. Orchestras she's worked with include Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Camerata Castello, Stuttgart Kammerorchester and the Baroque Ensemble Il Capriccio. During her studies she taught at the universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg as a tutor. In 2021 she performed together with Ryo Yamanishi as Ensemble in Residence at the 14th Hagnauer Classic Festival at the Bodensee. In the same year she was named as one of the three best concert exam students at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, resulting in a live radio recording on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

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Ms Wagner holds scholarships from the Society of Friends of the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, the Zaczkowski Foundation and the German Music Council.

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Judith Wagner studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Susanna Ehn-Riebl, at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart with Conradin Brotbek, at the Zurich University of the Arts with Roel Dieltiens and a concert exam at the Freiburger Musikhochschule with Jean-Guihen Queyras. She completed all of her studies – Bachelor, two Masters and concert exams – with distinction and the highes grades. Other influential teachers include Gustav Rivinius, Xenia Jankovic, Louise Hopkins, Heidi Litschauer, Roglit Ishay, Christine Busch, Jörg Halubek, Thomas Riebl, Siliva Simionescu, Claire Genewein and Monika Beer and on the baroque cello Kristin von der Goltz, Christoph Dangel, Jonathan Pesek and Martin Zeller.

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She currently plays a cello from Antonius Thir from 1747.

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