| Biography | Augustin Hadelich (born April 4, 1984 in Italy) is a German classical violinist.
Hadelich was born in Cecina, Italy, to German parents. He started playing the violin at the age of 5. His two older brothers were already playing cello and piano at the time. Hadelich's early teachers included his father, as well as Uto Ughi, Christoph Poppen, Igor Ozim, and Norbert Brainin. He earned a diploma (summa cum laude) from the Istituto Mascagni in Livorno, Italy.
In 1999, when Hadelich was age 15, a fire on his family's farm in Italy severely burned his upper body, and left him with burns over 60% of his body. He was airlifted to Germany, where burn specialists treated him. He stopped playing for almost a year and started to perform again in 2001. His recovery phase included multiple skin grafts and physical therapy. He recovered sufficiently to audition for admission for The Juilliard School, which accepted him as a student and where he studied from 2004 to 2007. At Juilliard, Hadelich was a student of Joel Smirnoff, and earned a Graduate Diploma and an Artist Diploma.
Hadelich was the gold medalist at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, where he also received several additional prizes, including best performance of a Romantic concerto, Classical concerto, Beethoven sonata, violin sonata other than Beethoven, Bach work, commissioned work, encore piece and Paganini caprice.[1] Other awards include an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011), and Lincoln Centers Martin E. Segal Award (2012). He was the first winner of the Warner Music Prize, in October 2015.
Hadelich has recorded two CDs for Naxos, an album of Haydn's violin concertos with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, where Hadelich composed his own cadenzas,[3] and Telemanns complete fantasies for solo violin. For the AVIE label, he has recorded four CDs. Flying Solo, from October 2009, features solo violin works by Bartók, Paganini, Ysaÿe and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Echoes of Paris, released in February 2011, features works for violin and piano by Debussy, Poulenc, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Histoire du Tango features works for violin and guitar with the spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas by De Falla, Paganini, Piazzolla and Sarasate, was released in March 2013. In June 2013, Augustin recorded the concertos of Sibelius and Thomas Adès with Hannu Lintu and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He shared in the 2016 Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for his recording of Henri Dutilleuxs Violin Concerto ('L'Arbre Des Songes') with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. |