Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich, 2012

Augustin Hadelich (born April 4, 1984 in Cecina , Italy ) is a German-American violinist .

biography

Augustin Hadelich was born in 1984 to German parents in Cecina (Italy) and grew up in Italy. He started playing the violin at the age of five. His father and later Uto Ughi, Christoph Poppen , Igor Ozim and Norbert Brainin were among his first violin teachers . In his youth, Hadelich was seriously injured in a fire. Hadelich began his violin studies at the Instituto Mascagni in Livorno and then went to the Juilliard School in New York , where he studied with Joel Smirnoff.

Augustin Hadelich has lived in New York City since 2004 and has had both German and American citizenship since 2014.

Career

Augustin Hadelich gives concerts internationally as a soloist and chamber musician.

As a soloist he has worked with all the major orchestras in North America, including a. with the symphony orchestras of Boston , Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minnesota, San Francisco, Saint Louis and Toronto, with the New York Philharmonic , Los Angeles Philharmonic , Philadelphia Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra .

In Europe he has given concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , BBC Philharmonic , London Philharmonic , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Spanish National Orchestra , and with the radio symphony orchestras of WDR, HR, NDR and SWR, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, and the Philharmonic Orchestras in Dresden, Hamburg and Munich. From 2019 to 2022 he is Associate Artist with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg.

Hadelich's repertoire is diverse. It ranges from the standard repertoire of violin concertos (Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and many more) to contemporary music (e.g. the violin concertos by Thomas Adès , Henri Dutilleux and György Ligeti or duo works by Brett Dean , David Lang , György Kurtág , Tōru Takemitsu or Bernd Alois Zimmermann .)

Prizes and awards

Instrumentalist of the Year, Musical America, 2018
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Exeter (UK), 2017
Grammy Award "Best Classical Instrumental Solo" for the recording of Henri Dutilleux 'Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, 2016
Warner Music Prize, 2015
Fellowship of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, London, 2011
Avery Fischer Carrer Grant, New York, 2009
1st prize of the Indianapolis International Violin Competition, 2006. Special prizes for the best interpretations of romantic concerto, classical concerto, Beethoven sonata, romantic / modern sonata, Bach work, contemporary commissioned work and for the best Paganini Caprice

instrument

Augustin Hadelich played on the "Ex-Kiesewetter" Stradivari from 1723, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society in Chicago.

Since 2020 the "Leduc" - Guarneri del Gesù from 1744, which was once the property of Henryk Szeryng , has been made available to him by the Tarisio Trust .

Discography

As a child

Augustin Hadelich · 12 years · plays his own works for violin and piano (1996)
Augustin Hadelich: Portrait of a musical child prodigy of 12 years as a violinist, pianist and composer Plays violin sonatas by Beethoven , C. Franck as well as his own piano and violin compositions The duo works are accompanied by Prof. Rainer Hoffmann (1996)
Augustin Hadelich plays his own compositions for piano (Heroes and Legends; Encounters; Walks) (1996)
Anniversary concert 40 years of Festival Strings Lucerne “Festival Strings times two”, conductor: Rudolf Baumgartner ; with Andrea Bacchetti, piano (1996)
Augustin Hadelich 13 years old plays works for violin solo by Bach , Ysaÿe , Bartók (1997)

As an adult

Haydn : Violin Concerts (Naxos, 2007) l Cologne Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Helmut Müller-Brühl
Telemann : Twelve Fantasies for solo violin (Naxos, 2009)
Flying Solo (AVIE, 2009) ǀ Works by Bartók , Paganini , Ysaÿe and Zimmermann
Echoes of Paris (AVIE, 2011) ǀ Works by Poulenc , Stravinsky , Debussy and Prokofiev | with Robert Kulek, piano ǀ “Editor's Choice” Gramophone Magazin
Histoire du Tango (AVIE, 2013) ǀ Works by Piazzolla , Falla , Paganini and Sarasate | with Pablo Villegas, guitar
Sibelius + Adès : Violin Concerts (AVIE, 2014) ǀ Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra , conducted by Hannu Lintu ǀ nominated for Gramophone Award and in the selection of the Top Albums 2014 by the New York Times
Bartók : Violin Concerto No. 2 + Mendelssohn , Violin Concerto (AVIE, 2015) | Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Dutilleux : Violin Concerto L'arbre des songes | Seattle Symphony , Cond. Ludovic Morlot | Seattle Symphony Media 2015 | Grammy Award 2016
Duo CD with works by Franck , Kurtág , Previn and Schumann (AVIE, 2016) | with Joyce Yang, piano | nominated for Grammy Award 2018
Tchaikovsky : Violin Concerto + Lalo : Symphonie espagnole (LPO, 2017) | London Philharmonic Orchestra , conducted by Wassili Petrenko and Omer Meir Wellber
Lang : Mystery Sonatas for violin solo (Cantaloupe Music, 2018)
Paganini : 24 caprices for violin solo (Warner Classics, 2018)
Brahms + Ligeti : Violin Concertos | Norwegian Radio Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya (Warner Classics, 2019)