Augustin Hadelich
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About
Multiple performances with almost every major orchestra in North America have confirmed Augustin Hadelich as one of the most important violinists of his generation. An increasingly familiar figure in Europe and Asia, he continues to astonish audiences with his phenomenal technique, poetic sensitivity and gorgeous tone. His consistency across the repertoire from Paganini to Brahms, Bartók and Adès is seldom encountered in a single artist.
Highlights of his 2015-16 season in Europe include performances with the London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Komische Oper Berlin, Norwegian Radio, Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich and Finnish Radio Symphony. He will be Artist-in-Residence with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performing concertos under the baton of Kirill Karabits and Thomas Dausgaard as well as a recital and chamber music with members of the orchestra. Further afield his performances bring him back to the Pittsburgh Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra as well as the Atlanta Symphony (Sibelius) and Vancouver Symphony (Tchaikovsky), and he will make his debut with the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras.
Hadelich has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, Helsinki Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Dublin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, OSESP São Paulo Symphony, NHK Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Sapporo Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and the SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra.
He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Marin Alsop, Herbert Blomstedt, Lionel Bringuier, Stéphane Denève, Alan Gilbert, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Günther Herbig, Christoph König, Hannu Lintu, Andrew Litton, Christian Macelaru, Sir Neville Marriner, Jun Märkl, Juanjo Mena, Ludovic Morlot, Sakari Oramo, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Peter Oundjian, Vasily Petrenko, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Mario Venzago, Edo de Waart, Hugh Wolff, Jaap van Zweden and the late Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
Augustin’s recordings on the AVIE label include the Gramophone Award-nominated pairing of the violin concertos of Sibelius and Adès (Concentric Paths) with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Lintu; Histoire du Tango, a program of violin-guitar works in collaboration with Pablo Villegas; Echoes of Paris, featuring French and Russian repertoire influenced by Parisian culture in the early 20th century; and Flying Solo, a CD of masterworks for solo violin. His latest recording features the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Bartók’s Concerto No 2 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya is released in 2015.
An enthusiastic recitalist, Augustin Hadelich returns to the Wigmore Hall this season following an impressive debut recital last year, and has also appeared at Carnegie Hall (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Amsterdam Concertgebouw, De Singel (Antwerp), Louvre (Paris), Kioi Hall (Tokyo), and the chamber music societies of Detroit, Philadelphia, La Jolla, Seattle and Vancouver.
The son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich was born and raised in Italy. A resident of New York City since 2004, he holds an artist diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. He was Gold Medalist of the Indianapolis International Violin Competition in 2006 and is recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award (2012), an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009) and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011).
He plays the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivarius violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.