Augustin Hadelich consolidates his association with the New York Philharmonic when he makes his sixth appearance with the orchestra in subscription concerts on May 28, 29 and 30, at Avery Fisher Hall. He will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, known as the “Turkish.” Manfred Honeck will conduct.
Augustin made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in the summer of 2010, as a last-minute stand-in appearance under the baton of the Philharmonic’s Music Director Alan Gilbert at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. On the occasion, the Denver Post hailed Augustin’s “brilliant performance of Felix Mendelssohn's beloved Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. [He] wowed the capacity audience …with his self- assured, technically fluent and musically sensitive approach. And when he breezily performed Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 17 as an encore, he easily confirmed his place on the shortlist of today's top violin virtuosos.”
Augustin was immediately re-engaged by the New York Philharmonic and returned to Vail in 2011, performing Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto, again under Alan Gilbert. With the same concerto and conductor, he performed for the orchestra’s opening concert of Caramoor’s Fall Festival in 2011. He made his subscription debut in 2012 in Avery Fisher Hall, performing Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. He reunited with the Spanish maestro and the same piece for a third appearance at Vail in 2013.
Augustin has been a resident of New York since moving to the city in 2004 to attend The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. Born in Italy to German parents, he became a U.S. citizen in 2014, making headlines when he performed America the Beautiful at his naturalization ceremony at Manhattan Federal Court.
Among Augustin’s numerous New York performances are five appearances at Carnegie Hall. He made his orchestral debut in 2008, performing Brahms' Double Concerto with cellist Alban Gerhardt, conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony. The same year he made his Carnegie recital debut, the result of winning the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He has performed twice with the New York String Orchestra and Jaime Laredo for their annual holiday concerts, including Mozart’s Fifth Concerto in 2008 and, last year, the Barber Concerto. In 2014, he gave the premiere performance of David Lang’s mystery sonatas at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, “a work of nearly 40 minutes for solo violin performed stunningly by the brilliant young violinist” (The New York Times).
Following Augustin’s recital debut at the Frick Collection in 2009, The New Yorker’s Alex Ross remarked, “Here is a young artist with no evident limitations.” He returned to the Frick in 2013.
Away from home this season, Augustin has performed over a dozen concertos with as many orchestras, including those by Adès, Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, DvoĆák, Haydn, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, with such orchestras as the Baltimore, BBC, Dallas, Houston, NHK, Saint Louis and Toronto Symphony Orchestras, London Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Salzburg Mozarteum, and Seattle Symphony. He has also collaborated in nearly a dozen recitals and chamber music concerts, including his recital debut in San Francisco, and a chamber music tour in China.
Among Augustin’s numerous awards are an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009) and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, for which he was nominated by Alan Gilbert and New York Philharmonic.
Augustin 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
Thursday, May 28, 2015 – 7:30pm
Friday, May 29, 2015 – 2:00 pm
Saturday, May 30, 2015 – 8:00 pm
Avery Fisher Hall
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
Augustin Hadelich violin
New York Philharmonic
Manfred Honeck conductor
Mozart Violin Concerto Number 5 in A major, K219 “Turkish” Also on the program:
J. Strauss II Die Fledermaus Overture
Brahms Symphony No. 4
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