Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn ( born November 27, 1979 in Lexington, Virginia) is an American violinist.
Biography
Hahn grew up in Baltimore. Their ancestors came from the Palatinate ( Bad Durkheim ); she speaks only as of their family German, also French and Japanese. Your first important teacher was Klara Berkovich, a representative of the Russian violin school from Odessa. With ten years she moved to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to the legendary Jascha Brodsky teacher, who stood as Eugène Ysaye's last student in the Belgian tradition.
At the age of six years, Hilary Hahn made her first public appearance. At age ten, she made her first full-length solo concert. At twelve, she played for the first time with a smaller chamber orchestra and also gave her debut with a big orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Since then, Hilary Hahn has given more than 800 concerts, 500 of whom with orchestras. She has appeared in over 200 cities in 27 countries on four continents. She has collaborated with conductors 150. In Germany, she made her debut in 1995 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Lorin Maazel.
Artistic repertoire
As a debut CD played Hahn 1997 Sonata and two partitas for solo violin by JS Bach one. On the next album, she took before the Beethoven Violin Concerto, which is considered the most musically challenging as one and with whom she made her debut in Germany at age 15. In 2000, a recording of a violin concerto by Edgar Meyer, which he had dedicated to her appeared. The following year she took the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms on with the more rarely performed concert of Igor Stravinsky. She played for the Hollywood movie The Village the film score by James Newton Howard. They also can be heard in the songs To Russia My Homeland on the album Worlds Apart and Witch's Web on the album So Devided the American rock band ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead.
2007 they played and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel occasion of the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI. in the Vatican in Rome. The program included works by Antonín Dvořák, Giovanni Gabrieli and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
In March 2009, Hilary Hahn, Member of Friends of the Festspielhaus Baden -Baden has become. The Friends is a non-profit organization to support the artistic program and the objectives of the Festspielhaus. Hahn's colleague Anne -Sophie Mutter also supported as a member of the " Trustees of the Cultural Foundation Festspielhaus Baden -Baden " this cultural institution.
Instrument
Hahn's violin is a Guarneri del Gesù replica of Jean -Baptiste Vuillaume from 1864. It uses French arches from the 19th century and strung with Dominant and a Pirastro Gold E string.
Discography
Film music The Village - The Village
- 2005 Mozart: Violin Sonatas
- 2006 Paganini & Spohr: Concertos
- 2010 Bach: Violin & Voice
- 2010 Jennifer Higdon: Violin Concerto & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major Op 35
- 2011 Charles Ives: Four Sonatas, with Valentina Lisitsa, piano
- 2012 Silfra ( improvisations with Hauschka )
- 2013 In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores, with Cory Smythe, piano
After separating from Sony Hilary Hahn is since 2002 exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon.
Movies
- 2006 Hilary Hahn - A Portrait ( DVD) - Film portrait and concert recording of the Korngold Violin Concerto with the DSO under Kent Nagano. Directed by Benedict Mirow