Czech-American violinist and composer Matteo Hager, born in Prague in 2003, began playing
the violin at the age of four. He graduated from the Music Gymnasium in Prague, where he
studied under Professor Jiří Fišer, and earned a merit-based scholarship at the Royal Academy
of Music in London, where he currently studies with Professor Rodney Friend.

Matteo is a laureate of numerous national and international competitions, including 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, and
the International Showcase Music Competition in Hamburg. He was awarded the Gold Medal at
the 5th Manhattan International Music Competition and the First Prize at the Academy of Václav
Hudeček.

In 2023, Matteo was recognized as a “Rising Star” by BBC Music Magazine.

He has performed as a soloist across three continents and collaborated with esteemed
conductors such as Tomáš Netopil, Radek Baborák, Chuhei Iwasaki, Tomáš Brauner, Marek
Šedivý, Petr Vronský, Jan Kučera, Naci Özgüç, and Alena Hron. Matteo has appeared as a
soloist with renowned orchestras, including the Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Prague
Philharmonia, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra,
The Ukrainian-Czech Sinfonietta, I Virtuosi di Kyiv, PKS, Central London Orchestra, and the
Bursa Regional State Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In 2023, Matteo represented the Royal Academy of Music as a soloist in New York.

The following year, he performed as a soloist at the Konzerthaus Berlin during the Young Euro
Classic Festival. As a laureate of the ISMC competition, he also appeared at the Winners’
Concert at the Elbphilharmonie-Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.

Matteo also collaborated with violinist Martina Bačová on the album Violin: Solos and Duets.
 

In addition to his performing career, Matteo is a passionate composer. As a laureate of the 2022
Showcase of Young Talented Soloists and Composers, he performed his original compositionThrenody at the Rudolfinum as part of the Dvořákova Praha International Music Festival.

In 2024, he premiered his Violin Concerto as a laureate of the Showcase in Prague. Matteo has
also composed music for theater and film, including the French-Czech feature-length co-production Le Syndrome de l'été sans fin (2023), directed by Kaveh Daneshmand.

Matteo’s accomplishments are supported by several prestigious awards and grants, including
the ABRSM Scholarship, the Albert Cooper Music Charitable Trust Grant, the Suresh and
Richard McMillan Scholarship for Music, and the Comenium Musicum Academy MenART Grant
from Božena Viskupová and Alena Viková.