The German Society of Maryland
Cordially
invites you to the 225th
Awards Banquet and Dinner Dance
To honor our
distinguished 2008 Awardee
Grammy Award-Winning Violinist
Ms.
Hilary Hahn
Saturday,
November 15th, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Zion
Church Adlersaal
Baltimore,
Maryland
At the age of 27, Grammy
Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn is one of the most compelling artists on
the international concert circuit. Renowned for her intellectual and emotional
maturity, she was named "America's Best"
young classical musician by Time Magazine in 2001, and appears on a regular
basis with the world's great orchestras in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Highlights of
Ms. Hahn's 2006-2007 season include recital tours in the United States and
Europe, and appearances with many major orchestras around the world including
the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra of
St. Luke's (at Carnegie Hall), Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Tonhalle Orchester, Danish National
Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Hong Kong
Philharmonic, and KBS Symphony Orchestra of Korea. During a busy 2005-2006
season, she played recitals in cities including New York (Carnegie Hall), Salt
Lake City, Boulder, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Warsaw, Brussels, Paris,
Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Seoul, and Tokyo; and appeared with numerous orchestras
including the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony and
Philadelphia Orchestra.
Hilary Hahn records exclusively
for Deutsche Grammophon. Her most recent album,
released in October 2006, is an unusual pairing of Paganini's Concerto No.1 and
Spohr's Concerto No.8, with the Swedish Radio
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eiji Oue. Deutsche Grammophon released
her recording of four Mozart sonatas played with her longtime recital partner
Natalie Zhu. Her first two albums on the label were the Elgar Violin Concerto
and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending with the London Symphony Orchestra and
Sir Colin Davis, which won the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik";
and four violin concertos by Bach with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and
Jeffrey Kahane.
She has also recently
collaborated on several albums with non-classical musicians, appearing on
Worlds Apart by Austin alt-rockers ...And You Will Know Us By
the Trail of Dead and on Tom Brosseau's upcoming
album to be released in January 2007. She can be heard
as featured soloist on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack to M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village.
Admitted to Philadelphia's
Curtis Institute of Music in 1990 at the age of ten, Hilary Hahn made her major
orchestra debut a year and a half later with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
In March 1995, at age 15, Ms. Hahn made her German debut playing the Beethoven
concerto with Lorin Maazel
and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert broadcast on radio and
television throughout Europe. Two months later she
received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 1996 Ms.
Hahn signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical, and made her
Carnegie Hall debut in New York as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Alongside her solo work,
Ms. Hahn has long been interested in chamber music. Nearly every summer since
1992 she has appeared at the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival, performing
both as chamber musician and as soloist with the festival orchestra. Between
1995 and 2000, she spent four summers studying and performing chamber music at
the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. From 1996 to 1998
she was an artist-member of the chamber music mentoring program of the Chamber
Music Society of Lincoln Center, with whom she subsequently appeared as a
frequent guest artist.
Hilary Hahn was born in
Lexington, Virginia. At the age of three she moved to
Baltimore, where she began playing the violin one month before her fourth
birthday in a local children's program. From age five to ten, she studied in
Baltimore with Klara Berkovich,
a native of Odessa who taught for 25 years at the Leningrad School for the
Musically Gifted. From ten to seventeen she studied at Curtis with the
legendary Jascha Brodsky - the last surviving student
of the great Belgian violinist Eugene Ysa˙e - working
closely with him until his death at the age of 89. Though
she completed the Curtis Institute's university requirements at age 16, Ms.
Hahn deferred graduation and remained at the school for several more years,
taking additional elective courses in languages and literature, coaching
regularly with Jaime Laredo, and studying chamber music with Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman. In May
of 1999, at the age of 19, Ms. Hahn graduated from Curtis with a bachelor of
music degree.