| Augustin Hadelich | |
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| Born | April 4, 1984 Cecina, Italy |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupations | Violinist |
| Instruments | Ex-Kiesewetter 1723 Stradivarius |
| Labels | AVIE, Naxos |
| Website | augustin-hadelich.com |
Augustin Hadelich (born 1984 in Italy) is a German violinist and winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Grant. He was also the gold medallist of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He also received that competition’s special awards for best performance of a Romantic concerto, Classical concerto, Beethoven sonata, violin sonata other than Beethoven, Bach work, commissioned work, encore piece and Paganini caprice. In 2011 he received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship.
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In July 2010, Augustin Hadelich made his New York Philharmonic Debut at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival playing the Mendelssohn concerto. About the performance, the Denver Post wrote: “[Mr. Hadelich] wowed the capacity audience…with his self-assured, technically fluent and musically sensitive approach. And when he breezily performed Paganini’s Caprice No. 17 as an encore, he easily confirmed his place on the shortlist of today’s top violin virtuosos…” (full review) On August 30, 2009, Augustin Hadelich made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, playing Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole with the conductor Giancarlo Guerrero (review) - Cleveland has re-invited him to play the Mendelssohn Concerto in March 2011. He was also re-invited by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to play at the Hollywood Bowl on August 19, 2010 - a little less than two years since his debut there on August 28, when he played Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 (Los Angeles Times review). Other recent highlights include his Paris recital debut at the Louvre, a BBC young artist’s debut recital at The Sage Gateshead, near Newcastle upon Tyne, his debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, and debuts with the symphonies of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Seattle, Utah and Vancouver.
In 2010, the New Yorker Magazine wrote: "Hadelich, who is twenty-five, has all the fast-fingered brilliance that modern conservatory culture requires; the musicality and the freewheeling fantasy that he brings to bear, though, cannot be taught...Here is a young artist with no evident limitations". (full review by Alex Ross)
Augustin Hadelich made three Carnegie Hall appearances in 2008: his orchestral debut in January, performing the Brahms Double Concerto under Miguel Harth-Bedoya with cellist Alban Gerhardt and the Fort Worth Symphony; his highly successful recital debut in March; and a performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with the New York String Orchestra under Jaime Laredo on Christmas Eve. Other orchestral engagements include the symphonies of Alabama, Louisiana, Chautauqua Institution in NY, Colorado, Columbus, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Houston, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Louisville, Santa Barbara and Syracuse, as well as the Pacific Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and the IRIS Orchestra in Memphis.
Outside the United States, Augustin Hadelich has performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, Dresden Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Nürnberg Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Tokyo Symphony, and chamber orchestras in Budapest, Cologne, Hamburg, Lucerne and Toulouse. He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Justin Brown, Giancarlo Guerrero, Günther Herbig, Yakov Kreizberg, Hannu Lintu, Christof Perick, Christoph Poppen, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Larry Rachleff, Stefan Sanderling, Michael Stern and Mario Venzago.
Augustin Hadelich has given recitals at the Frick Collection in New York (NY Times review), the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C (Washington Post review), the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Clark Memorial Library (Los Angeles), La Jolla Music Society, the University of Texas at Austin and Kioi Hall in Tokyo, to name a few. As chamber musician, he has been a participant at the Marlboro, Ravinia, and Seattle festivals, in addition to a collaboration with Midori at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater.
Augustin Hadelich holds a diploma (summa cum laude) from the Istituto Mascagni in Livorno, Italy, as well as a Graduate Diploma and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. He has been a participant at the Marlboro, Ravinia and Seattle chamber music festivals and in numerous master classes with renowned violinists such as Uto Ughi, Christoph Poppen, Igor Ozim, Norbert Brainin, Pinchas Zukerman, Zakhar 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. He started to play again in 2001. [1]
Augustin Hadelich lives in New York City.
Augustin has recorded two highly acclaimed CDs for Naxos: Haydn’s complete violin concerti with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, and Telemann’s complete Fantasies for Solo Violin. A new CD of masterworks for solo violin (including the Bartók solo sonata) was released by AVIE in October 2009. In the words of The Times, “Now in his mid-twenties, Augustin Hadelich is fast emerging as a significant talent. This recital of music for unaccompanied solo violin, however, is a step beyond…he is both a virtuoso violinist and a deeply thoughtful one” (Full Review). A second disc for AVIE will be released in 2011.
Augustin Hadelich plays on the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago. From October 2006 until August 2010 he played on the 1683 "ex-Gingold" Stradivari, which was on loan to him from the Indianapolis Competition.