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Augustin Hadelich

New York, New York

Personal website: http://www.augustin-hadelich.com

Augustin joined Violinist.com on Sep 16, 2006

With his poetic style and dazzling technique, Augustin Hadelich has established himself as a rising star among the new generation of violinists. Winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant and gold medallist of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, he also received the 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.

Hailed as a “brilliant violinist” in the New York Times, Augustin will make his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra on August 30, 2009. Other recent debuts include the Houston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, and recitals at Kioi Hall (Tokyo), the La Jolla Music Society, and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Augustin made his Carnegie Hall orchestral debut in January 2008, performing the Brahms Double Concerto under Miguel Harth-Bedoya with cellist Alban Gerhardt and the Fort Worth Symphony; he returned to Stern Auditorium in March 2008 for his captivating, highly acclaimed recital debut. In his third appearance at Carnegie Hall during 2008, he performed 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, Columbus (OH), Fort Worth, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, New Orleans, Louisville, Santa Barbara, Syracuse and the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Memphis, among others. Outside the United States, Augustin has performed with the Capetown Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie/ Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, Dresdner Philharmonie, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz, and the chamber orchestras of Bavaria, Berlin, Budapest, Cologne, Hamburg, Kiel, Lucerne and Toulouse. He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Günther Herbig, Yakov Kreizberg, Christof Perick, Christoph Poppen, Stefan Sanderling, Michael Stern and Mario Venzago.

In 2008, Augustin made his recording debut for Naxos, performing the complete violin concerti of Haydn with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. A CD of masterworks for solo violin (including the Bartók solo sonata) will be released by AVIE in 2009, as well as a second disc for Naxos, Telemann's complete Fantasies for Solo Violin.

An enthusiastic recitalist, Augustin has appeared at the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Chautauqua Music Festival, the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as in collaboration with Midori at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. He recently participated in a highly successful east coast tour with artists from the Marlboro Music Festival.

Born in Italy in 1984, the son of German parents, Augustin holds a diploma (summa cum laude) from the Instituto Mascagni in Livorno, Italy, as well as a graduate diploma and the 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, Norbert Brainin, Pinchas Zukerman, Zachar Bron, Yehudi Menuhin and Miriam Fried. As first-prize winner of the Indianapolis Competition, Augustin plays on the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivari violin and Tourte bow.

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Schools:

Istituto Mascagni, Livorno, Italy
The Juilliard School

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