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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn cancels yet further concerts
The star soloist is continuing to recover from a muscle injury
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs Bach's Sarabande from Partita no.2
Violinist Hilary Hahn performs the Sarabande from Bach's Solo Partita no.2. Hahn has been forced to withdraw from all performances since July this year due to injury. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues ...
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ArticleHilary Hahn on finding the right chin rest and shoulder rest
I believe in padding any area that comes in contact with bone' Violinist Hilary Hahn talks about the importance of finding the correct chin rest and shoulder rest for you, and gives some helpful tips. The Strad's Accessories 2014 supplement, including a feature on chin rests, is ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn on the best advice she ever had
Balance between technique and musicality is so important. Good technique is necessary to bring the music across, but you also need sound musical ability for the technique to be free enough to work' Violinist Hilary Hahn talks about the most valuable lessons she learned from her teachers ...
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn cancels further performances
The artist's recovery from an inflamed muscle has taken longer than expected
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn on choosing fingerings
I choose fingerings that don't get in the way of the music and that don't make the passage sound technical' Violinist Hilary Hahn gives advice on choosing fingerings for different passages and works. Read about other leading string players as tutors in the Strad's September issue education ...
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn cancels all performances for six weeks
The star performer is suffering from an inflamed muscle
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ArticleHilary Hahn performs Korngold's Violin Concerto
Hilary Hahn performs Korngold's Violin Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleHilary Hahn performs Paganini's Caprice no.24 and Milstein's Paganiniana
Hilary Hahn, who was guest editor of The Strad's June 2012 issue, performs Paganini's Caprice no.24 and Milstein's Paganiniana at the Verbier Festival in 2007. You can read excerpts from Hahn's interviews in the June 2012 here. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn to receive €25,000 Dresden Music Festival Prize
The US violinist Hilary Hahn has been awarded the Dresden Music Festival Prize for 2014. Worth €25,000, the award will be presented at a concert at the Dresden Semperoper on 4 June. In its citation, the festival award committee said, ‘Through her authentic, contemporary musical language, ...
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Composer Jeff Myers wins violinist Hilary Hahn's encore contest
American composer Jeff Myers has won an online competition to complete Hilary Hahn's encores project. The violinist had already commissioned 26 composers from 17 countries to write new short-form pieces for violin and piano for the project, named 'In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores'. The 27th piece, Myers's The ...
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ArticleHilary Hahn: Bach, Ives and hat
The June 2012 issue's guest editor Hilary Hahn plays some Bach, then a Charles Ives medley in an Ives-inspired hat. Playlist: Bach: Bouree (from Partita no.3) Bach: Siciliana (from Sonata no.1) Ives/Trad.: Medley Download the June 2012 issue here. Photo: Benjamin Ealovega
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Violinist Hilary Hahn launches competition for composers
Hilary Hahn has launched an online contest to choose the 27th piece for her new project, In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores. Twenty-six composers, including Krzysztof Penderecki, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Edgar Meyer and Nico Muhly, have already written encores for her. She will select the final work from blind submissions ...
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Jennifer Higdon wins Pulitzer for violin concerto written for Hilary Hahn
Jennifer Higdon has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto. The work was written for Hilary Hahn, who gave the premiere with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in February 2009. The Brooklyn-born Higdon, who teaches composition at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, won a Grammy earlier this ...
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