Hilary Hahn
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Biography
Known for her delicate touch and colorful style, American classical musician Hilary Hahn â born in Lexington, Virginia on November 27, 1979 - became established at a young age as one of the world's leading violinists with performances with many of the world's great orchestras, acclaimed recitals and award-winning recordings. As well as the standard concertos of classical composers such as J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, Paganini and Stravinsky, she has commissioned original works by contemporary composers including Edgar Meyer, Jennifer Higdon and Antón GarcÃa Abril. In 2010, Time Magazine hailed her as America's Best Young Classical Musician. Hilary Hahn picked up her first violin at the age of three and attended the Peabody Institute in Baltimore while still very young. After further study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, she debuted with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1991 at the age of eleven. She went on to perform with symphony orchestras in Pittsburgh, Utah and Bavaria plus the New York Philharmonic as she continued her schooling. Her first recording, Hilary Hahn Plays Bach, was released in 1987 but her next did not come until 1999 when Beethoven: Violin Concerto/Bernstein: Serenade, which reached Number 17 on Billboard's Classical Albums Chart. Brahms/Stravinsky: Violin Concertos (2002) with Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields went to Number 25 and won a Grammy Award. Bach: Violin Concertos (2003) with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra went to Number 6 on the Billboard Classical Albums Chart. Elgar/Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Violin/The Lark Ascending (2004), with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis peaked at Number 13. Schoenberg: Violin Concertos (2008) with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen peaked at Number 7 and won Hahn her second Grammy Award. Hilary Hahn can be heard on several movie soundtracks: she played on James Newton Howard's Academy Award-nominated score for the 2005 feature film The Village and her recording of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto is featured on the soundtrack of Terence Davies's 2011 film The Deep Blue Sea. She released two albums in 2018, Retrospective, a collection of tracks from her 12 previous albums, and Hilary Hahn Plays Bach: Sonatas 1 & 2/Partita 2. Hilary Hahn released her album Paris â recorded with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France - in January 2021.
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Albums
Hilary Hahn
Ysaÿe: 6 Sonatas for Violin Solo, Op. 27 / Sonata No. 2 in A Minor: II. Malinconia
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Hilary Hahn
Bach, J.S.: Partita for Violin Solo No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002: 4. Double (Presto)
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Hilary Hahn / Natalie Zhu
Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376 & 526 [Simplified Metadata]
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Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Hahn, Hauschka: Ashes featuring Hilary Hahn
- Chausson: Poème for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 25 featuring Myung-Whun Chung
- Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major, K. 301 - I. Allegro con spirito featuring Natalie Zhu
- Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - I. Andantino. Andante assai featuring Myung-Whun Chung
- Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19: II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo featuring Myung-Whun Chung
- Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 - III. Moderato. Allegro moderato featuring Myung-Whun Chung
- Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major, K. 301 - II. Allegro featuring Natalie Zhu
- Rautavaara: Deux Sérénades (Written for Hilary Hahn) - No. 1. Sérénade pour mon amour. Moderato featuring Myung-Whun Chung
- Rautavaara: Deux Sérénades (Written for Hilary Hahn) - No. 2. Sérénade pour la vie. Andante assai. Comodo. Agitato featuring Myung-Whun Chung
- Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, K. 526 - I. Allegro molto featuring Natalie Zhu
- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, TH. 59 - III. Allegro vivacissimo featuring Hilary Hahn
- Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K. 304~2. Tempo di minuetto featuring Natalie Zhu
- Violin Concerto, Op. 14: II. Andante
- Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in F Major, K. 376 - I. Allegro featuring Natalie Zhu
- Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major, K. 379: Ib. Allegro by Cory Smythe
- Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in G Major, K. 379: Ia. Adagio by Cory Smythe
- Paganini: _ - Paganini: Violin Concerto No.1 in D Op.6 - 2. Adagio
- Paganini: _ - Paganini: Violin Concerto No.1 in D Op.6 - 3. Rondo (Allegro spirituoso) featuring Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Partita for Violin Solo no. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: 4. Double (Presto)
- Violin Concerto: II. ?
- Paganini: _ - Paganini: Violin Concerto No.1 in D Op.6 - 1. Allegro maestoso
- J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041 - II. Andante featuring Jeffrey Kahane
- Serenade for Violin & Orchestra: IV. Agathon. Adagio by Hilary Hahn
- Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 "Turkish" - II. Adagio featuring Hilary Hahn
