Augustin Hadelich will make his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, at the Royal Festival Hall on 17 April 2015, performing Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole.

Augustin has performed the Symphonie Espagnole to great acclaim with orchestras around the world, including in his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2013 and subscription debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2012, both under the baton of the late Spanish maestro Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos. The New York Times praised the “excitement” of his performance with the Philharmonic, saying “he appeared undaunted by the technical challenges, bringing humor to the embellishments in the final movement and making the most of his instrument’s distinctive low range in the extensive passages on the G string.” Performing the Lalo for his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2009, the Plain Dealer enthused, he “easily earned a return invitation with a smashing Cleveland debut … A consummate showman, Hadelich pranced over considerable technical obstacles with fluent ease … But behind [his] talent was a molten intensity, a determination to explore the music’s passionate, earthy sides with gritty articulation and tender lyricism.”

Augustin’s LPO debut follows two other important London debuts this season. In October 2014, he made his recital debut at the Wigmore Hall and his orchestral debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo, in which the Guardian found “a fluent, vibrant-toned soloist” in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4.

In the month prior to his LPO debut, on 18 and 19 March, Augustin will appear with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) and Vasily Petrenko, performing the Sibelius Concerto. His recording of the Sibelius with the RLPO under Hannu Lintu, paired with Thomas Adès’ Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths” (AVIE Records), earned him a Gramophone Award nomination.

Augustin’s debut with the LPO follows his impressive string of orchestral debuts in recent seasons including the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony and Royal Scottish National Orchestras. In addition to the Wigmore, his notable international recital appearances include Carnegie Hall and The Frick Collection in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Kioi Hall in Tokyo, The Louvre in Paris and the Sage Gateshead.

In the US, where Augustin is now a citizen, he has performed with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras including the Cleveland, Minnesota and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, and the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies.

Among Augustin’s numerous awards are a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center (having been nominated by the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert), an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.

In addition to the Adès and Sibelius Concertos, Augustin has made three critically acclaimed recordings for AVIE. Reviewing Flying Solo, which juxtaposes virtuosic solo works by Bartók, Paganini, Ysaÿe and Zimmermann, The Sunday Times found him to be “both a virtuoso violinist and a deeply thoughtful one”. Echoes of Paris, featuring French and Russian repertoire influenced by Parisian culture in the early 20th century, received an Editor’s Choice from Gramophone magazine. Histoire du Tango, which explores Argentina’s national dance and other Hispanic-influenced dance and musical forms, confirmed “Hadelich’s place among the most admired violinists of his generation”, according to The Strad. For Naxos, he has recorded Telemann’s complete Fantasies for solo violin, and Haydn’s complete violin concerti with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. In 2015, AVIE will release a pairing of the Mendelssohn with Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted Miguel Harth-Bedoya.

Born in Italy to German parents, Augustin Hadelich 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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CONCERT INFORMATION
Friday, 17 April – 7:30 pm
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Augustin Hadelich violin
Omer Meir Wellber conductor
Royal Festival Hall

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole

Also on the programme:
Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

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