Beatrix Wagner studied flute with Prof. Dr. Richard Müller-Dombois at the Hochschule for tidtmusic Detmold from 1989 to 1996. She was later awarded scholarships by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Office Franco-Allemand which enabled her to spend the year 2000/01 in Paris and pursue her studies with Philippe Racine. This proved highly influential, as did her participation in master classes with Robert Aitken, Robert Dick, Carin Levine and Istvan Matuz. As solo flutist with the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra during her student days, Beatrix Wagner played under such distinguished conductors as Herbert Blomstedt, Dimitri Kitajenko, Gunther Schuller and Krzysztof Penderecki, participating for example in the European premiere of Penderecki's 5th Symphony. She won several international prizes, for example the Kuhlau Competition for Flautists in Uelzen and the Wind Competition in Kerkrade (Netherlands) in 1996.
Scholarships from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Office Franco-Allemand enabled her to spend a year in Paris in 2000/01, where she received significant inspiration from her studies with Philippe Racine.
In 2001, she founded Germany's northernmost soloist ensemble for new music, the Ensemble Reflexion K, with which she has performed her own concert series in the Baltic Sea resort of Eckernförde since 2002. In 2006 and 2007, she was involved in the founding of the two Schleswig-Holstein new music festivals "chiffren - kieler tage für neue musik" and "ProvinzLärm Eckernförde," and from 2008 to 2010, she worked as a lecturer for the newly founded Schleswig-Holstein State Youth Ensemble for New Music.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Beatrix Wagner performs in Germany and abroad and has received invitations from ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik NRW, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble SurPlus and Insomnio (NL).
Concert tours led her through Europe, Asia, North and South America. She has performed at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, Maerzmusik Berlin, the Westphalian Music Festival, the Bludenz Days for Contemporary Music (A), the Transit Festival Leuven (B), Tres Cantos Madrid (E), the New York Philharmonic Biennial, ICMC Singapore, SICMF South Korea, NYCEMF Festival New York, the IV Gara Garayev Festival in Baku (Azerbaijan), and Roaring Hoofs in Mongolia, and has performed in concert halls such as the Cologne Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Seoul Arts Center, the Ulan Bator Opera, the Sala Zitarrosa Montevideo/Uruguay, and the Centro Cultural Parque de Espana in Rosario. (RA), the Sala Alberto Williams Buenos Aires or the National Sawdust New York.
Beatrix Wagner has produced radio and CD recordings for BR, SWR, WDR, MDR, NDR, RB, Deutschlandfunk, and DeutschlandRadio, as well as for the labels ambitus, col legno, Coviello, NEOS, edition zeitklang, and mode records/New York. The flutist's two solo CDs, "positions" (2003) and "Spiegelungen" (2011), were highly praised by the press for their courage in going to such extremes, both in terms of sound and program.
Beatrix Wagner collaborates intensively with the composers whose works she performs and enjoys exploring new avenues and crossing boundaries in her projects. She is currently also working with the dulcimer, an instrument very common in Alpine folk music, and is performing Walter Zimmermann's "Das Gras der Kindheit" (2006) for dulcimer and vocals (1 person) on stage.
In spring 2019, she founded the duo Be.Mad with New York cellist Madeleine Shapiro, which is primarily dedicated to the latest music for flute(s), cello, and electronics (audio/video).
In 2014/2015, Beatrix Wagner, together with the Ensemble Reflexion K and in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk, recorded three portrait CDs of the composers Nicolaus A. Huber, Peter Gahn and Gerald Eckert, the last of which, Gerald Eckert "on the edges" (mode records/New York), was nominated for the best list of the German Record Critics' Award.