Viviane Hanger was born in Munich in 1976.She studied with Thomas Brandis in Berlin, Viktor Liberman in Amsterdam and Pinchas Zukerman in New York, making her debut at the age of 12 with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Gerd Albrecht. In 1990 she took part in the legendary concert given by the Berlin Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras in Tel Aviv, conducted by Zubin Mehta.

　Since these early appearances, Viviane Hagner has performed as soloist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Roger Norrington, the Staatskapelle Orchestra Berlin and Daniel Barenboim, the Deutsche Symphony Orchestra Berlin and Dmitry Kitaenko, the Radiosinfonie Orchester Berlin and Rafael Fruhbeck de Bourgos, the Bavarian State Orchestra and Zubin Mehta, the Dresden Philharmonic and Michel Plasson, the Iceland Symphony and Yan-Pascal Tortelier, as well as with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, and the Zurich and Lausanne Chamber Orchestras.

　In January 1999, she played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Claudio Abbado, who immediately invited her to perform at the Salzburg Easter Festival and in Berlin in December 1999.
　Viviane Hagner regularly appears at various international festivals including the Rheingau Musik Festival, Kissinger Sommer, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Settimane Musicali in Ascona, the Reykjavik Arts Festival, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. She is also a member of the Chamber Music Society in New York.

　As winner of the first prize in the 2000 International Young Concert Artists Auditions, she will give recitals in New York, Washington and Boston in the 2000/2001 season. In June 2001 she will tour Germany and France with the WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne together with Pinchas Zukerman, playing Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

　Together with her sister Nicole Hagner, who is a pianist, Viviane has recorded a debut album for EMI Classics featuring works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens and Schubert.

　Viviane Hagner performs on Stradivarius"Sasserno" 1717 violin on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

　

This violin, considered one of the finest examples of his work, was made by Antonio Stradivari in 1717.It was once owned by Monsieur Sasserno in 1845, hence the name. The good condition of this violin is due to it having been well kept in one family's ownership for 93 years before Nippon Music Foundation purchased the instrument in May 1999.