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Acclaimed Violinist Hilary Hahn to Perform Nov. 22
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Biography
At the age of 22, violinist and Grammy nominee HILARY HAHN has established herself as one of the most accomplished and compelling artists on the international concert circuit. Recently named “America’s Best” young classical musician by Time Magazine, she appears regularly with the world’s great orchestras in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Highlights of Ms. Hahn’s 2002-2003 season include recital debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Vienna Musikverein; a four-week tour of Europe with the San Francisco Symphony; performances of the violin concerto of Edgar Meyer (written for her) with the Boston, National, Seattle, and Frankfurt Radio symphonies; and a series of 14 recitals that take her from California to Istanbul. Other North American concerts include appearances and recordings with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and subscription series with the orchestras of St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Honolulu. In Europe, Ms. Hahn tours Austria with Camerata Salzburg, makes her debut with the Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra, and returns to the Danish National Radio Symphony, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.
Since 1996, Hilary Hahn has made five recordings for Sony Classical. Her first album, featuring Solo Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach, won Diapason’s 1997 “d’Or of the Year” and spent weeks as a bestseller on the Billboard classical charts. Her next recording, concertos by Beethoven and Bernstein, brought her first Grammy nomination, as well as a second Diapason “d’Or,” the Echo Klassik award for 1999, and Gramophone Magazine’s “CD of the Month;” and her third release – American concertos by Samuel Barber and Edgar Meyer – won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and the Cannes Classical Award. Her 2001 recording of the concertos of Brahms and Stravinsky, a Gramophone “Editor’s Choice,” received the “Choc” of Monde de la Musique and became Ms. Hahn’s fourth consecutive classical bestseller. In the autumn of 2002, Sony will release her fifth album: concertos of Felix Mendelssohn and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Admitted to Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music in 1990 at the age of ten, Hilary Hahn made her major orchestra debut a year-and-a-half later with the Baltimore Symphony. Her 1993 Philadelphia Orchestra debut was followed by engagements with the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Pittsburgh Symphony. In March 1995, at age 15, Hilary Hahn made her German debut playing the Beethoven concerto with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in a concert broadcast on radio and television
throughout Europe. Two months later she received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 1996, Ms. Hahn completed the graduation requirements for her bachelor’s degree at Curtis, signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in New York, as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Alongside her solo work, Ms. Hahn has long been interested in chamber music. Every summer since 1992, she has appeared at the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival, performing both as chamber musician and as soloist with the festival orchestra. Between 1995 and 2000, she spent four summers studying and performing chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and from 1996 to 1998 she was an artist-member of the chamber music mentoring program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She now appears regularly with the Society as a guest artist.
Hilary Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia. At the age of three she moved to Baltimore, where she began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in a local children’s program. From age five to ten, she studied in Baltimore with Klara Berkovich, a native of Odessa who taught for 25 years at the Leningrad School for the Musically Gifted. From ten to seventeen she studied at Curtis with the legendary Jascha Brodsky – the last surviving student of the great Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye – working closely with him until his death at the age of 89. Though she completed the Curtis Institute’s requirements at age 16, Ms. Hahn deferred graduation and remained at the school for several more years, taking additional elective courses in languages and literature, coaching regularly with Jaime Laredo, and studying chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman. In May of 1999, at the age of 19, Ms. Hahn graduated from Curtis with a bachelor of music degree.
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