Czech-American violinist Matteo Hager was born in 2003 in Prague. He started playing the violin at the
age of four. He graduated from the Music Gymnasium in Prague where he studied under Prof. Jiří Fišer
and was awarded a merit-based scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he is
presently studying under Prof. Rodney Friend.

Matteo is the laurate of several national and international competitions, such as the Czech National
Music Competition, the Josef Micka Violin Competition, the France Music Competition, the Augustin
Aponte Music Competition in Spain, the Note di Talento competition in Italy, to name a few. Matteo was
also awarded the Golden Medal at the 5th Manhattan International Music Competition and the first
prize of the Academy of Václav Hudeček.

In 2023, Matteo was featured as a “Rising Star” in BBC´s Music Magazine.

Matteo has given concerts across three continents and cooperated with acclaimed conductors including
Tomáš Netopil, Chuhei Iwasaki, Tomáš Brauner, Radek Baborák, Marek Šedivý, Petr Vronský, Jan Kučera,
and Naci Özgüç. He has collaborated as soloist with the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague
Philharmonia, Philharmonic Orchestra of Bohuslav Martinů, Westbohemian Symphony, the Ukrainian-
Czech Sinfonietta, I Virtuosi di Kyiv, Central London Orchestra, Bursa Regional State Symphony
Orchestra, and several other orchestras. In 2023 Matteo was also chosen to represent the Royal
Academy of Music as a soloist in New York. In 2024, Matteo will perform as soloist with the Ševčík
Academy Orchestra and the conductor Alena Hron at the Konzerthaus Berlin within the Young Euro
Classic Festival.

Matteo performs chamber music in addition to his work a soloist. He is a founding member of the
Bloch Trio, with acclaimed pianist Pavol Praženica and outstanding cellist David Pěruška. In
2023, Matteo competed alongside pianist Marie Šumníková as a duo in the International Showcase
Music Competition, performing at the Winner’s concert at the Elbphilharmonie Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
One of Matteo’s greatest passions is composing. As a laurate of the Showcase of Young Talented Soloists
and Composers 2022, Matteo was invited to perform his own composition Threnody at Rudolfinum
within the international music festival Dvořákova Praha. He´s been also commissioned to compose
music for both theater and film, including the feature length French-Czech coproduction Le Syndrome
de l´été sans fin (2023) by Kaveh Daneshmand.

Matteo is the recipient of the ABRSM´s (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) scholarship,
Albert Cooper Music Charitable Trust´s grant, Suresh and Richard McMillan Scholarship for Music, the
Stadler-Trier Foundation´s grant and the Comenium Musicum Academy MenART´s grant by Božena
Viskupová and Alena Viková.