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    Composer Jeff Myers wins violinist Hilary Hahn's encore contest

    17 June 2012

    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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    Hilary Hahn: Bach, Ives and hat

    17 May 2012

    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

    29 October 2011

    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

    12 April 2010

    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 ...