Augustin Hadelich

Augustin Hadelich was born in 1984 to German parents living in Italy. He began playing violin at the age of five, received lessons from Uto Ughi, Christoph Poppen, Igor Ozim, and Norbert Brainin, and performed internationally as a child. He later studied at the Istituto Mascagni in Livorno and, from 2004 to 2007, with Joel Smirnoff at New York’s Juilliard School. Hadelich made a significant career leap in 2006 when he won the Indianapolis International Violin Competition. Further awards followed: he received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in New York in 2009 and was honored in 2011 with a Fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust. Since then, he has performed with the leading American symphony orchestras, as well as with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestre National de France, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. He made his first appearance at the BBC Proms in 2016, at the Salzburg Festival in 2018, and at the Verbier Festival in 2021. In the fall of 2021, Hadelich made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic; he gave several guest performances with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg as an associate artist in 2021-22. Augustin Hadelich has built up an extensive discography. He received a Grammy Award in 2016 for his recording of Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des songes. His CD Bohemian Tales featuring Dvořák’s Violin Concerto received the Opus Klassik. Musical America magazine named him Instrumentalist of the Year in 2018. His most recent recording is of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, which was released last year. As of 2021, Hadelich, now an American citizen, teaches at the Yale School of Music. He plays on a 1744 violin built by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, which previously belonged to the Polish violinist Henryk Szeryng.

July 2022