Augustin Hadelich connects with Chicago over the coming months, making his recital debut at the Ravinia Festival on August 22, and his subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Edo de Waart at Orchestra Hall on November 12, 13 and 14.

Augustin’s debut at the Ravinia Festival closes a summer season that has included appearances at the Aspen, Bravo! Vail Valley, Chamber Music Northwest, Grand Teton and LaJolla music festivals, as well as performances with the NHK Symphony (Tokyo) and Orquesta Mineria (Mexico City). At Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall on August 22, Augustin will be joined by his regular duo partner, pianist Joyce Yang, to perform a diverse program: Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Janáček’s Violin Sonata, and André Previn’s Tango Song and Dance. In addition, Augustin will perform selections from David Lang’s mystery sonatas, a work for solo violin written for him and commissioned by Carnegie Hall. The complete seven-movement, 35-minute work 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. According to The New York Times, the April 2014 premiere was “performed stunningly by the brilliant young violinist”; reviewer Anthony Tommasini continued, “I cannot imagine a better performance than the one Mr. Hadelich gave."

Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang have proven to be a dynamic duo on stage, performing with “unassuming virtuosity … uncanny sophistication [and] irresistible elan” (Dallas Morning News). In June, they documented their musical chemistry in their first joint recording that includes the Schumann and Previn works which they will perform in Ravinia, as well as Franck’s Violin Sonata and Tre Pezzi by György Kurtág. The recording is due for release on AVIE Records in the spring of 2016.

Chicago-area audiences will have a chance to hear Augustin again when he makes his debut in subscription concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on November 12, 13, and 14, performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, known as the “Turkish.” Edo de Waart will conduct. Augustin has performed Mozart’s fifth concerto frequently and, in a nod to a tradition from the composer’s time, has written and performs his own cadenzas. Most recently Augustin performed Mozart’s Fifth with the New York Philharmonic in May 2015, under guest conductor Manfred Honeck.

Augustin has performed with virtually all of the major symphony orchestras in North America including the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland, Minnesota and Philadelphia Orchestras; Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics; and the Baltimore, Dallas, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Saint Louis and Toronto Symphonies. His numerous awards include the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2010), and the 2012 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, for which he was nominated by the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert.

Augustin’s growing discography includes the recently released Mendelssohn Violin Concerto coupled with Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, with Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducting the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, a recording that “shows he has become one of the very best of his generation. Even during Mendelssohn's most straightforward passages, one hears subtle, poetic touches from Hadelich with a pure, beautifully produced tone” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

Born in Italy, the son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich now resides in New York City. 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
Ravinia Music Festival
Saturday, August 22 – 6:00 pm
Bennett Gordon Hall
with Joyce Yang piano

Schumann Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 105
David Lang mystery sonatas for solo violin
Janáček Sonata (1914)
Previn Tango Song and Dance
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart conductor
Thursday, November 12 – 8:00 pm
Friday, November 13 – 1:30 pm
Saturday, November 14 – 8:00 pm

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, K219 “Turkish”
Also on the program:
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Adams Harmonielehre

Orchestra Hall
220 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60604
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