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Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American violinist.

HILARY HAHN TICKETS

EVENT	DATE	AVAILABILITY
The Cleveland Orchestra: Hilary Hahn Plays Brahms Tickets 1/16	Jan 16, 2025 Thu, 7:30 PM
The Cleveland Orchestra: Hilary Hahn Plays Brahms Tickets 1/17	Jan 17, 2025 Fri, 7:30 PM
The Cleveland Orchestra: Hilary Hahn Plays Brahms Tickets 1/18	Jan 18, 2025 Sat, 8:00 PM
New York Philharmonic: Hilary Hahn - Brahms and Blomstedt Tickets 2/26	Feb 26, 2025 Wed, 7:30 PM
New York Philharmonic: Hilary Hahn - Brahms and Blomstedt Tickets 2/27	Feb 27, 2025 Thu, 7:30 PM

Biography

Hahn began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. ^[1] She participated in a Suzuki class for a year. Between 1984 and 1989 Hahn studied in Baltimore under Klara Berkovich. In 1990, at ten, Hahn was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she became a student of Jascha Brodsky. Hahn studied with Brodsky for seven years and learned the études of Kreutzer, Ševcík, Gaviniès, Rode, and the Paganini Caprices. She learned twenty-eight violin concertos, recital programs, and several other short pieces. ^[2]

In 1991, Hahn made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Soon thereafter, Hahn debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. In 1995 Hahn made her international debut in Germany with a performance of the Beethoven Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The concert was broadcast on radio and television in Europe. A year later, Hahn debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

By sixteen, Hahn had completed the Curtis Institute's university requirements, but elected to remain for several years to pursue elective courses, until her graduation in May 1999 with a Bachelor of Music degree. During this time she coached violin with Jaime Laredo, and studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman. In an interview with PBS in December 2001, Hahn stated that of all the musical disciplines, she is most interested in musical performance. ^[3]

Hahn has played with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She debuted with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in March 2007. Hahn and mandolinist Chris Thile have discussed the possibility of releasing a duo album. ^[4] ^[5]

In 2007, she played in Vatican City as part of the celebrations for Pope Benedict XVI together with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

She began performing and touring in a crossover duo with singer-songwriter Josh Ritter in 2007 and with singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau in 2005. ^[6] According to Hahn: "Other musicians cross genres all the time. For me it's not crossover — I just enter their world. It frees you up to think in a different way from what you've been trained to do."

She speaks English ^[7], French ^[8] and German ^[9] fluently and also speaks Japanese. ^[10]

Career

thumbIn 1996, Sony Music signed Hahn to an exclusive recording contract, making her one of the youngest exclusive artists in the label's history. After Hahn completed her part of the contract with Sony, which was for five recordings over six years, she decided against renewing the contract as she and Sony did not agree on her future projects. ^[11] Hahn signed with Deutsche Grammophon in 2003 after her contract with Sony expired in 2002. In 2001, Time Magazine named Hahn as "America's Best" young classical musician ^[12]. In addition to being a solo violinist, Hahn has also performed as a chamber musician. Since the summer of 1992 she has performed nearly every year with the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival in Skaneateles, New York. Between 1995 and 2000 she spent performing and studying chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and in 1996 she served as an artist and a member of the chamber music mentoring program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

On playing Bach

As of 1999, Hahn has stated that she plays Bach more than any composer and that she has played solo Bach pieces every day since she was eight.

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In a segment on NPR entitled "Musicians in Their Own Words", Hahn speaks about the surreal experience of playing the Bach Chaconne (from the Partita for Violin No. 2) alone on the concert stage. In the same segment, she discusses her experiences emulating a lark while playing The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. ^[14]

Violin and Strings

Her violin is a copy of Paganini's 'Cannone' made by Vuillame. As for her strings, she uses Dominants for the A, D and G (all medium gauge) and uses a Wondertone E.

Personal

In an 1999 interview with Strings Magazine , Hahn cited people influential on her development as a musician and a student, including David Zinman, the conductor of the Baltimore Symphony and Hahn's mentor since she was ten, Lorin Maazel, with whom she worked in Europe with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, ^[15]

Hahn sometimes feels that classical-music admirers "make it hard for people who are just coming in. I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress." ^[16]

During concerts she does hope for absolute quiet from the audience during the music. "Not out of snobbishness or holy respect for the music, but just so everyone (including the performers) can hear it. Great music can be quite comfortable and relaxing, and you can sleep — as long as you don't snore."

Hilary's Journal

Hahn's official website includes a unique section entitled "Hilary's Journal". In the Strings Magazine interview, Hahn stated that the idea originated while she was participating in a community outreach program for a third-grade class in upstate New York. The class that she visited was doing a geography project in which students of the class asked everyone that they knew who was traveling internationally to send postcards from the cities that they were visiting. The goal was to help the students to better learn about international cities around the globe. Hahn decided to participate after receiving a positive reaction from her suggestion that she take part as well. Hahn enjoyed her first year's experience with the project so much that she decided to continue it. ^[17] Because the teacher of the original third-grade class was retiring, Hahn wanted to expand the project's scale. She worked with Sony to establish "Hilary's Journal", a collection of electronic postcards that she periodically posts to her official website informing readers of her travels. Journal entries usually include photographs that Hahn takes while touring the city and during rehearsals. The first entry in "Hilary's Journal" dates back to January 6, 2002, when she was visiting Copenhagen, Denmark. Another interesting feature of Hahn's official website is a "Weekly Items" section that lists what she is currently reading, practicing, listening to, and watching.

Since September 2008 Hahn also has a Twitter account ^[18], where she post messages from the point of view of her violin case. ^[19]

Discography

Hilary Hahn Plays Bach (1997)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
Beethoven Violin Concerto/Bernstein Serenade (1999)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
: David Zinman, conductor
: Grammy Nominee - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra
Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos (2000)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
: Hugh Wolff, conductor
Brahms & Stravinsky Violin Concertos (2001)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
: Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
Mendelssohn & Shostakovich Concertos (2002)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
: Marek Janowski and Hugh Wolff, conductors
Bach Concertos (2003)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Margaret Batjer, violin; Allan Vogel, oboe
: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
The Village Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004)
: Hilary Hahn, featured violinist
: Music composed by James Newton Howard
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (2004)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: London Symphony Orchestra
: Colin Davis, conductor
Mozart: Violin Sonatas (2005)
: Hilary Hahn, violin; Natalie Zhu, piano
"To Russia My Homeland" from the album Worlds Apart by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (2005)
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8 - Gesangsszene (2006)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
: Eiji Oue, conductor
"Witch's Web" from the album So Divided by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (2006)
"Der Kleine Hörsaal - Die Geige mit Hilary Hahn" (2007) ^[20]
: Hilary Hahn, narrator
"Fork in the Road" and "Blue Part of the Windshield" from the album Grand Forks by Tom Brosseau (2007)
Schoenberg: Violin Concerto; Sibelius: Violin Concerto (2008)
:Hilary Hahn, Violin
:Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
:Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
: Debuted at #1 on Classical Billboard chart for three straight weeks (the first Schoenberg recording to debut at #1).
: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) ^[21]
: Grammy Nominee - Best Classical Album