Following his acclaimed debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in January 2013, Augustin Hadelich returns in May 2015, to perform two different violin concertos on alternate evenings. On May 6, at the orchestra’s home, Roy Thomson Hall, and on May 9 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal, Augustin will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. On May 8, he will perform Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The concerts in Montreal and Ottawa mark Augustin’s debuts in those cities. TSO Music Director Peter Oundjian will conduct all three performances.

Both Haydn’s Violin Concerto in C and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto figure into Augustin’s rapidly growing discography. Of his recording of the complete Haydn violin concerti with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra on Naxos, The Strad found Hadelich’s “affectionate, yet resilient treatment of these works … immediately captivating,” adding, “he masters with brilliance and panache the challenging rapid figuration.” He has recently recorded the Mendelssohn, together with Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, scheduled for release on AVIE Records in the summer of 2015.

Augustin has performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto on numerous occasions, including with the Seattle Symphony and Harth-Bedoya in November 2014. On that occasion, the Seattle Times enthused, “The ability to communicate the joy of making music is a gift not shared by all performing virtuosi. But it is stock in trade for the violinist Augustin Hadelich, whose immaculate and rapturous playing has made him a Seattle favorite … Eloquent and unforced, Hadelich’s violin lines were shaped by a technique as fine as anything you’ll hear on today’s concert stages. The audience ovation was so enthusiastic that Hadelich returned to the stage for a high-octane encore: the Paganini Caprice No. 5, a dizzying tour-de-force of speedy fingerwork and fluent bowing, tossed off with evident enjoyment.”

Augustin has collaborated with Peter Oundjian every year since 2011, including his debut with the TSO, when the young violinist “had the audience on its feet for a long time after his assured yet touchingly subtle reading of Mozart’s Fourth Violin Concerto” (Globe and Mail). They last performed together in May 2014 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a program featuring the Haydn concerto as well as Thomas Adès’ Violin Concerto, “Concentric Paths.” Augustin’s most recent concerto release paired the Adès and Sibelius concertos, and was nominated for a Gramophone Award.

Augustin performs a remarkably wide-ranging repertoire of violin concerti. This season, in addition to Haydn and Mendelssohn, he plays concertos by Adès, Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Dvořák, Lalo, Mozart, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, with orchestras around the world, including the Baltimore, BBC, Dallas, Houston, NHK and Saint Louis Symphony Orchestras, London and New York Philharmonics, Minnesota Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum, and Seattle Symphony.

Among Hadelich’s numerous awards are the Gold Medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (2006), an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2010), and, in 2012, the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, for which he was nominated by the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert.

Born in Italy, the son of 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
Wednesday, 6 May 2015 – 8:00pm *
Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto

Friday, 8 May 2015 – 8:00 pm **
National Arts Centre, Southam Hall, Ottawa

Saturday, 9 May 2015 – 8:00 pm *
Maison symphonique de Montréal

Augustin Hadelich violin
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Peter Oundjian conductor

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 *
Haydn Violin Concerto Number 1 in C **
Also on the programs:
Kevin Lau Treeship
Bruckner Symphony No. 7

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