World renowned and Grammy Award winning violinist Hilary Hahn to perform at the IU Auditorium
Grammy Award winning violinist Hilary Hahn takes to the Indiana University Auditorium stage for an evening of classical virtuosity Saturday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m.
Just 27 years old, Hahn is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of her generation. Hahn studied at the famed Curtis Institute of Music under renowned master Jascha Brodsky and made her major orchestral debut at the age of 11 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. At 15, she made her debut on the international stage with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and has become one of the most revered classical musicians in the world today.
Named by Time magazine as America's best young classical musician in 2001, Hahn's maturity, impeccable phrasing and immaculate technique have garnered her a Grammy Award and have earned her a place with the world's most acclaimed orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic.
Hahn records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon. Her most recent album, released in October 2006, is an unusual pairing of Paganini's Concerto No.1 and Spohr's Concerto No.8, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eiji Oue. Deutsche Grammophon released her recording of four Mozart sonatas played with her longtime recital partner Natalie Zhu. Her first two albums on the label were the Elgar Violin Concerto and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, which won the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik;" and four violin concertos by Bach with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Jeffrey Kahane.
Prior to signing with Deutsche Grammophon, Hahn 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 won her a Grammy Award in addition to Gramophone "Editor's Choice and Monde de la Musique's "Choc". It also became Hahn's fourth consecutive classical bestseller. In the autumn of 2002, Sony released her fifth album, concertos of Felix Mendelssohn and Dmitri Shostakovich.
She has also recently collaborated on several albums with non-classical musicians. She can be heard as featured soloist on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack to M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village.
Admitted to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1990 at the age of 10, Hahn made her major orchestra debut a year and a half later with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In March 1995, at age 15, 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, Hahn 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, Hahn has long been interested in chamber music. Nearly 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. From 1996 to 1998 she was an artist-member of the chamber music mentoring program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with whom she subsequently appeared as a frequent guest artist.
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.
Tickets are $25-$33 for the general public and $13-$23 for IU Bloomington students. Tickets are available at the IU Auditorium Box Office (1211 E. Seventh St.) or online at IUauditorium.com. For more information, call 812-855-1103.
