Hilary Hahn
Biography
Hilary Hahn was born in Lexington, Virginia, USA, and moved to Baltimore in 1983, where she had her first violin lessons.
Hahn has a full-time undergraduate degree at Curtis in music, liberal arts and foreign languages.
In 1985, Hahn began five years of study with Klara Berkovich who had taught at the Leningrad School for the Musically Gifted for 25 years before emigrating to Baltimore. In 1990, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study with 83-year-old Jascha Brodsky, the last surviving student of Eugène Ysaÿe.
Music
Hilary Hahn plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin from 1864.
Alongside her solo work and a deep interest in chamber music, she has also collaborated with non-classical musicians and can be heard as featured soloist on the soundtrack of M. Night Shyamalan’s film The Village, on the album Worlds Apart by Austin alt-rockers . . . And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, and on singer-songwriter-guitarist Tom Brosseau’s latest album Grand Forks.
Hilary Hahn frequently plays recital tours with pianist Natalie Zhu.
In 2008 her recording of violin concertos by Sibelius and Schoenberg with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen brings Hilary Hahn a Grammy® for the year’s “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra)”. She is named Classic FM Gramophone “Artist of the Year”
Hilary Hahn on Classic FM
Listen to Hilary Hahn talking to Classic FM in August 2007.
Discography
