Augustin Hadelich
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Augustin Hadelich (born 1984, Italy) is a violinist and winner of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He performs on the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivari violin. In the words of The Strad magazine, “Thankfully the evening closed with a performance worth waiting for…Hadelich showed his superlative musicianship in a daring performance of Mozart’s lesser-known Concerto No. 2, in which he presented cadenzas of striking originality.”
Augustin Hadelich holds a diploma (summa cum laude) from the Instituto Mascagni in Livorno, Italy, as well as a graduate diploma and the coveted Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. He has been a participant at the Marlboro and Ravinia festivals and in numerous master classes with renowned violinists such as Uto Ughi, Christoph Poppen, Norbert Brainin, Pinchas Zukerman, Zachar Bron, Yehudi Menuhin and Miriam Fried.
In 1999, when Augustin Hadelich was fifteen years old, a fire on his family's farm severely burned much of his upper body, including his face and bow arm. After several years of recovery, he started to play concerts again in 2001. [1]
On January 26, 2008, Augustin Hadelich made his Carnegie Hall orchestral debut, performing the Brahms Double Concerto under Miguel Harth-Bedoya, with cellist Alban Gerhardt and the Fort Worth Symphony. In a review of the concert the New York Times called him a "brilliant violinist". [2] This will be followed by his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut on March 28, 2008 in Stern Auditorium. On May 4, 2008 he will collaborate with Midori in a concert at the Rose Theater.
The 2007/08 season will also mark Mr. Hadelich’s professional recording debut with two CDs: the complete solo violin fantasies of Telemann and the complete violin concerti of Haydn for Naxos.
Other upcoming and recent performances include appearances with the symphonies of Charlotte, Alabama, Chautauqua, Columbus (OH), Fort Worth, Grand Rapids, Greenville, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisiana, Louisville, Portland (ME), and Santa Barbara, as well as the Tokyo Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Iris Chamber Orchestra (TN) and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. Mr. Hadelich will be collaborating with renowned conductors such as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Günther Herbig, Christoph Perick, Christoph Poppen, Stefan Sanderling, Michael Stern and Mario Venzago. Outside the U.S., engagements have included the Capetown Philharmonic, Dresdner Philharmonie, Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro (Brazil), Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, and chamber orchestras of Cologne, Bavaria, Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel, Lucerne, Pforzheim and Toulouse.
