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Dominik Wagner
“It’s unbelievable what richness of sound and enchantment can be achieved with this instrument.”
Viennese double bassist Dominik Wagner is considered one of the leading voices of his instrument. With technical brilliance, musical depth, and charismatic stage presence, he inspires audiences as a soloist and chamber musician. Awarded the ECHO and OPUS KLASSIK prizes, he is passionately committed to expanding the repertoire for the double bass. Whether through composition commissions or the search for rarities, he brings a new diversity to his instrument.
Dominik Wagner is a scholarship recipient of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and has also won prizes in many leading double bass competitions, including the Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Solo Competition, the ARD International Music Competition, the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize and the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition.
He has already performed with renowned orchestras such as the Camarata Salzburg, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra or the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and in concert halls in New York (Carnegie Hall), Berlin (Konzerthaus), Vienna (Musikverein and Konzerthaus), Munich (Herkulessaal) and Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie), among others. He was associated with the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra as a Young Artist and still performs with them regularly. The Nikolaisaal Potsdam is currently presenting him as their debut artist. In Milano he also debuts with Nino Rota’s Divertimento Concertante as well as with his program for double bass quartet. Wagner is a regular guest in the US with orchestral concerts, solo recitals, chamber music and master classes.
In 2021 Wagner’s first solo CD Giovanni Bottesini – Revolution of Bass was released by Berlin Classics. On the albums Chapters – A Double Bass Story and Bass Nocturnes (2025, digital) also released by Berlin Classics, he presents recital recordings together with Lauma Skride. Recordings and concert programs feature works ranging from Bach and Schubert to Piazzolla and Mancini, showcasing both their entire musical range. In 2023, Double Bass Rhapsody was released, an album on which Dominik Wagner and up to five other double basses bring forth new facets of sound for the instrument.
In addition to his solo activities, Wagner is a passionate chamber musician and is constantly searching for innovative timbres through new orchestrations. This led to a cooperation with jazz double bassist Georg Breinschmid, whose concerto for two double basses the two will premiere in February 2026. Other exciting formations include a trio with Sebastian Manz (clarinet) and Danae Dörken (piano), a duo with Aurelia Vișovan (harpsichord), and a duo with Laura Lootens (guitar).
Dominik Wagner was initially trained as a cellist before switching to the double bass in 2007. His four years in the concert choir of the Vienna Boys Choir were a formative musical influence. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Josef Niederhammer and Mag. Werner Fleischmann from 2009 to 2015, and from 2015 to 2022 with Prof. Dorin Marc at the HfM Nuremberg. After completing the Professional Studies Program in Kronberg, he first held a professorship in Würzburg before taking up the professorship for double bass at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. In addition to this activity, he gives master classes in Europe and the USA
Season 2025/2026 | Photo: Andrej Grilc| Quote: Cellesche Zeitung, November 5th 2024
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8 June 2025
Dominik Wagner and Lauma Skride have created a colorful program together, that can be heard on CD, too – they recorded an album together in the late summer […]
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Dominik Wagner | Double Bass Aurelia Visovan | Harpsichord In this unusual combination of double bass and harpsichord, Dominik Wagner and Aurelia Visovan present works by J. S. […]
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14 March 2025
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1 October 2024
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Dominik Wagner and Laura Lootens
16 April 2024
Dominik Wagner | Double Bass Laura Lootens | Guitar Both musicians are exotic in the chamber music hall. Both musicians work passionately to present new faces of their […]
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13 March 2024
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Prioritized Concertos 26/27
Bottesini
Concerto F-sharp minor
Koussevitzky
Concerto F-sharp minor
A. Previn
Double concerto for violin, doublebass & orchestra
N. Rota
Divertimento concertante
Glanert – World Premiere
The world premiere of the double bass concerto by composer (and double bass player) Detlev Glanert is still available for season 26/27
Dvorak – Arrangement for Doublebass
Wolfram and Dominik Wagner arranged the fragements of Dvorak’s cello concerto A minor into the double bass concerto D major, premiered in 2023
Full Repertoire
Bottesini
Concerto in F-sharp minor
Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double bass and orchestra
Gran Duo Concertante for cello, double bass and orchestra
Gran Duo for clarinet, double bass and orchestra
G. Breinschmid
Neujahrskonzert
Dvorak
Concerto in D major for double bass and orchestra (arr. cello concerto in A major (1865) by Dominik and Wolfram Wagner)
S. Koussevitzky
Concerto in F-sharp minor op. 3
A. Martin
Concerto for double bass and orchestra
A. Previn
Double concerto for violin, contrabass, and orchestra
F. Proto
A Carmen Fantasy
N. Rota
Divertimento Concertante
J. M. Sperger
Concerto No. 15 in D major
W. Wagner
Ballade
Prioritized Concertos 26/27
Bottesini
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Koussevitzky
Concerto F-sharp minor
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Double concerto for violin, doublebass & orchestra
N. Rota
Divertimento concertante
Glanert – World Premiere
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Dvorak – Arrangement for Doublebass
Wolfram and Dominik Wagner arranged the fragements of Dvorak’s cello concerto A minor into the double bass concerto D major, premiered in 2023
Full Repertoire
Bottesini
Concerto in F-sharp minor
Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double bass and orchestra
Gran Duo Concertante for cello, double bass and orchestra
Gran Duo for clarinet, double bass and orchestra
G. Breinschmid
Neujahrskonzert
Dvorak
Concerto in D major for double bass and orchestra (arr. cello concerto in A major (1865) by Dominik and Wolfram Wagner)
S. Koussevitzky
Concerto in F-sharp minor op. 3
A. Martin
Concerto for double bass and orchestra
A. Previn
Double concerto for violin, contrabass, and orchestra
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A Carmen Fantasy
N. Rota
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Concerto No. 15 in D major
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Ballade
Dominik Wagner and Lauma Skride: Chopin – Nocturnes op. 9 No. 2
Dominik Wagner & Dvoraks Concerto in D-Major for Double Bass and Orchestra, Arr. Dominik and Wolfram Wagner
Dominik Wagner: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
Dominik Wagner & Christoph Wimmer in conversation
Dominik Wagner introduces himself
Dominik Wagner and Polina Sasko: Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Dominik Wagner with Lauma Skride: Philip Glass: The Poet Acts
Dominik Wagner – Bottesini: Concerto for double bass No. 1, Movement 3
Dominik Wagner with Kiron Atom-Tellian – Dvorak: Concerto for double bass in D major
Dominik Wagner – F. Rabbath: Iberique Peninsulaire for double bass solo
Dominik Wagner with Can Çakmur – V. Montag: Sonata for double bass and piano in e-minor
Dominik Wagner – N. Rota: Divertimento Concertante
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