Hilary Hahn is an amazing violinist who plays with such meticulous intelligence, grace, power and emotion.   She is the Gramophone magazine Artist of the year for 2008 and won a grammy in 2001 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) .  Her latest cd featuring Schoenberg and Sibelius violin concertos debuted at number 1 on the Classical Billboard chart, a first for a Schoenberg recording.

She has been playing for almost her whole life, starting before 4 years old.  She studied with Jascha Brodsky at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia from age twelve to eighteen.  She made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1991.  In 2001 Time Magazine named her America’s Best young classical musician.

Hilary Hahan’s website includes a journal which she has updated on an off for many years.  She writes the entries herself and they provide a picture of “…what it is like to be a nomadic classical musician, a violinist, a 28-year-old, modern instrumental troubadour, or just a woman looking at the world around her…”  She also maintains a twitter feed on behalf of her violin case.

She plays a violin made in 1864 by the French violin maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

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