Hilary Hahn

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Hilary Hahn (2008)

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

biography

Hahn grew up in Baltimore . Your ancestors come from the Palatinate ( Bad Dürkheim ); she is the only one in her family who speaks German , as well as French and Japanese .

Her first important teacher was Klara Berkovich, a representative of the Russian violin school from Odessa . At the age of ten she moved to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to teach Jascha Brodsky , who was Eugène Ysaÿe's last student in the Belgian tradition.

Hahn made her first public appearance at the age of six. When she was ten she gave her first full-length solo concert . She played with a smaller chamber orchestra for the first time when she was twelve and also made her debut with a large orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra . Since then, Hahn has given a total of over 800 concerts, over 500 of which together with orchestras. She has performed in over 200 cities in 27 countries on four continents. She has worked with 150 conductors.

In Germany she made her debut in 1995 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Lorin Maazel .

In 2007 she and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra performed under conductor Gustavo Dudamel on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI. in the Vatican. The program included works by Antonín Dvořák , Giovanni Gabrieli and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

Since March 2009 Hahn has been a member of the Friends of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , a non-profit association that supports the Festspielhaus.

Hahn and her husband have lived in Cambridge , Massachusetts since 2016 after living in New York City for several years . They have two daughters.

repertoire

At a concert with Valentina Lisitsa

As a CD debut in 1997 Hahn recorded a sonata and two partitas for solo violin by JS Bach . On the next album she took her Beethoven - Violin Concerto in front with which they were 15-year-old debut in Germany. In 2000, the recording was released of a violin concerto by Edgar Meyer , which he had dedicated to her. In the following year she recorded the violin concerto by Johannes Brahms as well as the rarely performed violin concerto by Igor Stravinsky .

But she also played the score by James Newton Howard for the Hollywood film The Village . She can also be heard in the songs To Russia My Homeland on the album Worlds Apart and Witch's Web on the album So Divided by the American rock band … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead .

Instruments

Hilary Hahn owns two violins by the French violin maker JB Vuillaume , a Guarneri del Gesù model from 1864, which she has been playing since she was 14, and a Stradivarius model from 1865. She uses both instruments regularly. Hahn strings A, D and G strings with dominant strings, the E string with strings from Pirastro in gold . She uses nineteenth-century French and English bows , such as a Tubbs model primarily used on the Stradivarius model .

Discography

After separating from Sony , Hilary Hahn has been exclusively under contract with Deutsche Grammophon since 2002 .

Movies

  • 2006 Hilary Hahn - A Portrait (DVD) - film portrait and concert recording of the Korngold Violin Concerto with the DSO under Kent Nagano . Director: Benedict Mirow
  • 2020 Hilary Hahn - Evolution of an artist , long-term documentary from 2003 to 2019, director: Benedict Mirow

Awards

  • 1995 - Avery Fisher Career Grant
  • 1998 - Diapason d'or for the Bach album
  • 1999 - Echo Klassik and Diapason d'Or for the Beethoven-Bernstein album
  • 2000 - Best list of the German record critics and Echo Klassik for the Meyer Barber album and nomination of the Meyer Barber album for a Grammy Award
  • 2001 - "Cannes Classical Award" for the Meyer Barber album and "America's Best Young Classical Musician" (Time Magazine)
  • 2002 - Grammy as "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra" for the Brahms Stravinsky album
  • 2004 - Best list of the German record critics for the Elgar Vaughan Williams album and for the music for the film "The Village" and nomination of the music for the film "The Village" for an Oscar in the category of best film music
  • 2007 - Echo Klassik in the category "Classical Music for Children" for the album "Die Geige" from the series "Der kleine Hörsaal"
  • 2008 - "Artist of the Year" ( Gramophone Award )
  • 2009 - Grammy for her recording of the Violin Concertos by Schönberg and Sibelius
  • 2011 - Echo Klassik in the category “Concert Recording of the Year / Violin” for her recording of the violin concertos by Jennifer Higdon and Tchaikovsky
  • 2014 - "Glashütte Original MusikFestspiel-Preis" (Prize of the Dresden Music Festival). Hahn wants to donate the prize money for many smaller projects.
  • 2015 - Grammy in the category Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance for In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores , together with Cory Smythe

Web links

Commons : Hilary Hahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ two interviews with Hillary Hahn on YouTube: "arte-lounge" interview (2006) and in conversation with children
  2. ↑ YouTube interview about their Paganini / Spohr album
  3. ↑ Detailed biography on the official homepage ( memento of the original from October 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hilaryhahn.com
  4. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten : Pope Benedict received well-wishers on April 16, 2007
  5. ↑ Joshua Barone: "Hilary Hahn Returns to Bach, 21 Years Older. And Maybe Wiser". New York Times October 5, 2018.
  6. ^ Jason Price: Hilary Hahn, JB Vuillaume, 1865. In: www.tarisio.com. Retrieved December 15, 2019 (see below: Interview).
  7. ↑ Famous violinists string brand choices. In: www.violin-strings.com. Retrieved December 15, 2019 (see below: List).
  8. ^ Jason Price: Hilary Hahn, JB Vuillaume, 1865. In: www.tarisio.com. Retrieved December 15, 2019 (English, see end of fourth from last paragraph).
  9. ↑ List of titles Bach Partitas
  10. ↑ List of titles Beethoven Bernstein
  11. ↑ List of titles Barber Meyer
  12. ↑ List of titles by Brahms Stravinsky
  13. ^ List of titles Mendelssohn & Shostakovich
  14. ↑ List of titles Bach Concertos
  15. ↑ List of titles Elgar Vaughan Williams
  16. ^ Mozart list of titles
  17. ↑ List of titles by Paganini Spohr
  18. ^ List of titles Schoenberg & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
  19. ↑ List of tracks Bach: Violin & Voice
  20. ↑ Title List
  21. ^ Title list Ives: Four Sonatas
  22. ↑ List of titles Silfra
  23. ↑ Title list Hilary Hahn Encores
  24. ↑ List of titles Mozart Vieuxtemps Violin Concertos ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hilaryhahn.com
  25. ^ Retrospective - Hilary Hahn. Retrieved November 27, 2018 (American English).
  26. ↑ Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Sonatas 1 & 2 Partita 1 - Hilary Hahn. Retrieved November 27, 2018 (American English).
  27. ↑ Hilary Hahn - Evolution of an artist , International Documentary Film Festival Munich 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020
  28. ↑ US violinist Hilary Hahn receives prize from the Dresden Music Festival
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Hilary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Lexington , Virginia