July 7, 2014
AUGUSTIN HADELICH'S SUMMER SEASON INCLUDES RETURNS TO BLOSSOM, TANGLEWOOD AND SEATTLE, SOLO DEBUT IN ASPEN
Augustin Hadelich
Augustin Hadelich
Rosalie O'Connor

Augustin Hadelich’s busy schedule of summer performances takes him throughout the United States as well as to Mexico. But it began unexpectedly when he filled in as a last-minute replacement to perform with The Cleveland Orchestra on July 5, at the orchestra’s summer home, the Blossom Music Festival. Marking a return to where he made his triumphant debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2009, Augustin performed the Sibelius Concerto on the Festival’s 2014 opening concert, with Hans Graf conducting.

Another return for Augustin will be to Tanglewood to play with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and he will make his first solo appreance at the Aspen Music Festival. He also engages with his passion for chamber music with his sixth summer at the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

The opening appearance of Augustin’s Seattle Chamber Music Society residency, from July 7 – 14, features excerpts from David Lang’s mystery sonatas, a work written for Augustin and commissioned by Carnegie Hall. The fiendishly difficult solo work, which Augustin premiered in April at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, is an homage to the “Rosary Sonatas” by Baroque virtuoso violinist and composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Where Biber’s work takes its inspiration from the Christian Rosary, Lang’s work is about the mystery of music itself. The premiere was “performed stunningly by the brilliant young violinist,” according to The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini, who continued, “I cannot imagine a better performance than the one Mr. Hadelich gave. His playing combined impressive technical command with plush, rich-textured sound. And with magisterial poise and serene control, Mr. Hadelich became a riveting storyteller, which was the point of this piece.” Other concerts on the Seattle Chamber Music Society series will feature collaborations with fellow musicians in works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Shostakovich.

On July 17, Augustin returns to the site of his 2001 US debut, the Chautauqua Music Festival in upstate New York. Making his eighth appearance there, he will perform for the first time Henri Dutilleux’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, “L’arbre des songes” (The Tree of Dreams). Cristian Macelaru will conduct the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Dutilleux wrote about his concerto: “all in all the piece grows somewhat like a tree, for the constant multiplication and renewal of its branches is the lyrical essence of the tree. This symbolic image, as well as the notion of a seasonal cycle, inspired my choice of ‘L'arbre des songes’ as the title of the piece.” Augustin will go on to record the work in November with Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for Naxos.

The next day, Augustin appears with the Buffalo Philharmonic and JoAnn Falletta on “Rising Stars of the Stradivari Society”, performing works by Sarasate, Ravel and Bach. Augustin has played on the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin since 2010, on loan from Buffalo residents Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Augustin returns to Aspen for a special, multimedia recital, plus his first solo appearance with the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra. Together with pianist Joyce Yang and guitarist Pablo Villegas he will perform Tango Song and Dance on July 26. The program, a fusion of dynamic musical narrative with imaginative light installations, was conceived by Hadelich in conjunction with Patricia Handy and stage director Edward Berkeley. It premiered at the Kennedy Center in April, a performance that was “delightful and well-played by three crack musicians,” according to The Washington Post. At the musical heart of the performance is André Previn’s virtuosic work for violin and piano from which the title is taken, with the three, 5-minute movements forming the pillars of the program. Woven around that framework are pieces by Falla, Ginastera, Piazzolla, Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos and Ysaÿe.

On July 30, Augustin performs the Sibelius concerto with Hannu Lintu conducting the Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra. Lintu was also on the podium for Augustin’s acclaimed recording of the work with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for AVIE Records – which he played with “tremendous energy” (Gramophone), resulting in “one of the most convincing and involving versions” of the work, according to BBC Music Magazine. Augustin will also perform the Sibelius on his return to the Britt Festival in Oregon on August 9, with Teddy Abrams conducting.

Augustin made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 2012, performing the Barber concerto “with solid technique and flamboyant emotionalism … that earned him a hearty ovation” (The Boston Globe). His return on August 3 will feature Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4, K218. The concert will be conducted by Juanjo Mena, who replaces the late Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, who was a mentor to both Mena and Augustin.

On August 16 and 17, Augustin collaborates with Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto. He’ll perform Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a work that occupies a treasured place in Augustin’s repertoire. This past June, he made a recording of the work with Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra which is scheduled for release on AVIE Records in Spring 2015.

To close his summer season, Augustin will reunite with Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony in what will be his seventh engagement with the orchestra in seven years. He’ll feature on the Symphony’s “Great Performances” Festival, which this year focuses on the friendship between Brahms and Dvo?ák, performing the Brahms concerto on August 22, and the Dvo?ák concerto on August 24.

ABOUT AUGUSTIN HADELICH
Multiple performances with almost every major orchestra in the U.S. have confirmed Augustin Hadelich as one of the most important violinists of his generation. He is also becoming a familiar figure in Europe and Asia, continuing to astonish audiences with his phenomenal technique, poetic sensitivity and gorgeous tone. His consistency throughout the repertoire, from Paganini, to Brahms, to Bartók, to Adès, is seldom encountered in a single artist.

Composed for Mr. Hadelich, his recent premiere of David Lang’s 35-minute solo violin work, mystery sonatas, at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in April 2014 was a resounding success. Standing alone in a single spotlight, he wove his way through the intricate difficulties of this awe-inspiring work with apparent ease. One week earlier, he traversed through Tango Song and Dance, an originally conceived, multi-media recital premiered at Kennedy Center, featuring Mr. Hadelich, guitarist Pablo Villegas, and pianist Joyce Yang.

Highlights of Augustin Hadelich’s 2014/2015 season include debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra, Danish National Symphony and the London Philharmonic, as well as re-invitations to perform with the New York Philharmonic and the symphonies of Baltimore, Houston, Indianapolis, Liverpool, Saint Louis and Seattle. His other projects include Artist-in-Residence with the Netherlands Philharmonic, a tour with the Toronto Symphony (to Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto), and his debut recital at Wigmore Hall in London.

In North America, Augustin Hadelich has also performed with the Saint Paul and Los Angeles chamber orchestras, the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in addition to the symphonies of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Colorado, Dallas, Milwaukee, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, San Diego, San Francisco, Utah and Vancouver. Festival appearances include Aspen, Blossom, Bravo! Vail Valley, Britt, Chautauqua (where he made his American debut in 2001), Eastern Music Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Marlboro, La Jolla’s SummerFest, Seattle Chamber Music, Tanglewood and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany).

Recent and upcoming worldwide appearances include the Badische Staatskapelle/Karlsruhe, BBC Philharmonic/Manchester, BBC Symphony/Barbican, Bournemouth Symphony, German Radio Philharmonic/Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, Dresden Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, NHK Symphony/Tokyo, RTE National Symphony Orchestra/Dublin, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra.

Mr. Hadelich has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Roberto Abbado, Teddy Abrams, Herbert Blomstedt, Lionel Bringuier, Justin Brown, James Conlon, Christoph von Dohnányi, JoAnn Falletta, the late Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alan Gilbert, Hans Graf, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jakub Hrusa, Jahja Ling, Hannu Lintu, Andrew Litton, Jun Märkl, Sir Neville Marriner, Fabio Mechetti, Juanjo Mena, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Peter Oundjian, Vasily Petrenko, Larry Rachleff, Michael Stern, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Bramwell Tovey and Jaap van Zweden.

Also an enthusiastic recitalist, Augustin Hadelich’s numerous appearances include Carnegie Hall, The Frick Collection/New York, Kennedy Center/Washington, D.C., Kioi Hall/Tokyo, the Louvre, and the chamber music societies of Detroit, Philadelphia and Vancouver. His chamber music partners have included Inon Barnatan, Jeremy Denk, James Ehnes, Alban Gerhardt, Richard Goode, Gary Hoffman, Kim Kashkashian, Cho-Liang Lin, Midori, Charles Owen, Jon Kimura Parker, Cynthia Phelps, Vadim Repin, Mitsuko Uchida, Joyce Yang, and members of the Guarneri and Juilliard quartets.

Augustin Hadelich’s first major orchestral recording, featuring the violin concertos of Jean Sibelius and Thomas Adès (Concentric Paths) with Hannu Lintu conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, was released to great acclaim in March 2014 on the AVIE label. He has recorded three previous albums for AVIE: Flying Solo, a CD of masterworks for solo violin; Echoes of Paris, featuring French and Russian repertoire influenced by Parisian culture in the early 20th century; and Histoire du Tango, a program of violin-guitar works in collaboration with Pablo Villegas. Mr. Hadelich has recently recorded the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto and Bartok’s Concerto No. 2 with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya. This recording is scheduled for release on AVIE in the spring of 2015.

The 2006 Gold Medalist of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Mr. Hadelich is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in the UK (2011), and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award (2012).

The son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich was born and raised in Italy. Residing in New York City since 2004, he holds an artist diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. He plays on the 1723 “Ex-Kiesewetter” Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival
Monday, July 7
7:00 pm –Recital
David Lang mystery sonatas (excerpts)
8:00 pm – Concert Saint-Saëns Fantaisie in A Major for Violin and Harp, Op. 124 with Valerie Muzzolini Gordon, harp
Also on the program: works by Rachmaninov, Schubert

Wednesday, July 9 – 8:00 pm
Mendelssohn Trio No. 1 for Violin, Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 49 ?with Efe Baltac?gil, Jon Kimura Parker
Also on the program: works by Beethoven, Stravinsky

Friday, July 11 – 8:00 pm
Mozart Quartet for Flute and Strings in D Major, K. 285 ?with Lorna McGhee, Richard O'Neill, Ronald Thomas
Also on the program: works by Brahms, Stravinsky

Monday, July 14 – 8:00 pm
Shostakovich Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor, Op. 57?with Martin Beaver, Jonathan Vinocour, Ronald Thomas, Orion Weiss
Also on the program: works by Derek Bermel, Schubert

All concerts in Benaroya Hall
www.seattlechambermusic.org

Chautauqua Music Festival
Thursday, July 17 – 8:15 pm
Chautauqua Amphitheater
Dutilleux “L’arbre des songes” (The Tree of Dreams), Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Also on the program: works by Karim Al-Zand, Copland, Ravel
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
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Buffalo Philharmonic
Friday, July 18 – 7:00 pm
Kleinhans Music Hall
"Rising Stars of the Stradivari Society"
Ravel Tzigane?
Sarasate Carmen Fantasy?
Bach Concerto for Two Violins with Mayuko Kamio
Also on the program: works by Chabrier, Glinka, Vaughan Williams
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
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Aspen Music Festival
Saturday, July 26 – 8:00 pm
Harris Concert Hall
"Tango Song and Dance"? featuring works by Previn, Rodrigo, Falla, Piazzolla, Ginastera, Ysaÿe, Villa-Lobos
Recital with Joyce Yang, piano and Pablo Villegas, guitar

Wednesday, July 30 – 6:00 pm
Benedict Music Tent
Sibelius Violin Concerto, Op. 47
Also on the program: Sibelius Finlandia, Prokofiev Symphony No. 5
Hannu Lintu, conductor
Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra
www.aspenmusicfestival.com

Tanglewood
Sunday, August 3 – 2:30 pm
Koussevitzky Music Shed
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K218
Also on the program: works by Beethoven, Haydn
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra
www.bso.org

Britt Festivals
Saturday, August 9 – 8:00 pm
Britt Pavilion
Sibelius Violin Concerto, Op. 47
Also on the program: Sibelius Finlandia,?Dvo?ák Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Britt Orchestra
www.brittfest.org

Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria
Saturday, August 16 – 8:00 pm
Sunday, August 17 – 12:00 noon
Sala Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico City
Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor
Also on the program: works by Liszt, Strauss
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
www.mineria.org.mx

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra – Great Performances Festival
Friday, August 22 – 7:30 pm
Bass Performance Hall
Brahms Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
Also on the program: works by Dvo?ák
Sunday, August 24 – 2:00 pm
Bass Performance Hall
Dvo?ák Violin Concerto, Op. 53
Also on the program: works by Brahms
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor www.fwsymphony.org/concerts/festival.asp

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