Top 20 Greatest Famous Violinists of all Time
6. Joshua Bell
Joshua Bell (Bloomington, Indiana, on December 9, 1967). American violinist.
His first contact with the world of music goes back to when he was four years old. "My parents introduced me to the sound of the violin," he said. "Wasn't I who elected him".
He studied violin at the Indiana University under the direction of Josef Gingold. At the age of fourteen he appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1985 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has played with orchestras and the most important directors in the world.
In addition to interpret the normal concert repertoire, Bell has performed new works - Nicholas Maw dedicated his violin concerto, which Bell premiered in 1993. Interpreted the part of soloist of the soundtrack composed by John Corigliano for the film "The Red Violin" film for which he received an Oscar for best original score. He also plays Chamber music.
Currently a violin Stradivarius of 1713 called the Gibson ex Huberman (given that it formerly belonged to the violinist Bronislaw Huberman), for which he paid a price close to the 3.5 million of dollars.
One cold morning in January, 2007, at the station of the metro in Washington, D.C., a man with a violin in his hands touched six pieces of music of Bach, for about 45 minutes.
During that time about 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on the way to work. After three minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He stopped to listen for a few seconds and then hastened to his tryst with destiny.
4 minutes later the violinist received his first dollar: a woman throws money in the hat that was on the floor and continues walking without stopping.
6 minutes later a young man stops and leans on the wall to listen to him, then look at your watch and begins to walk again.
10 minutes later a three-year-old boy stops but his mother begins to pull him and motivates him to walk and hurry. The boy continues, but from time to time turns head to look. The same action was repeated by several other children. All parents, without exception, forced their children to move quickly.
45 minutes later the musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short time. Around 20 people gave him money without stopping to listen. In total the man collected $32.
1 hour later man ended his violin playing and silence took over everything. Nobody noticed it. No one applauded, there was no acknowledgment.
Nobody knew it, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the largest in the world. Joshua touched some of the musical pieces more intricate ever written, with a violin valued at about 3. 5 million dollars. Two days before the violinist had played in a Boston theater to packed House, where seats were sold with an average of about $100.
The story is true. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the railway station, was an event organized by the Washington Post newspaper as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and human priorities.
7. Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Aleksándrovich Vengérov is a Russian violinist, born August 20, 1974 in Novosibirsk.
Maxim Vengérov was born in Novosibirsk, the capital of Western Siberia, in August 1974. At the age of ten, he won first prize at the Poland Junior Wieniawski violin competition, having first studied with Galina Turtschaninova and, subsequently, the distinguished pedagogue Zakhar Bron, in the former Soviet Union.
He regularly gave concerts in Moscow and Leningrad and soon began performing debuts as a soloist with the Royal Concergebouworkest and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Valeri Gérgiev at the Lichfield Festival in the United Kingdom, as well as with the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, under the direction of Yuri Siminiov, during an extensive tour of Italy.
Among their first debuts in recitals, are offered at the Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In addition to winning first prize in the Carl Flesch competition, in July 1990, Vengerov received the audience award and special prizes to the interpretation. In the fall of 1990, he moved to Tel Aviv.
In the season 1990/91 made his American debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as his appearance with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Israel in Tel Aviv and during a tour of the United States. He has collaborated with many conductors, including notably, Yuri Temirkánov, Barenboim, Abbado, Mehta, Menuhin, Giulini, Sawallisch, and Mariss Jansons.
The season 1993/94 performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, the Philadelphia and the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of London, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Vengerov and his companion, Itamar Golan, regularly offered recitals in the musical centers of greater world-wide prestige, including - in the season 1993/94 - New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich and Salzburg.
In the season 1994/95 made a tour with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra by Italy and South America. She performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmoniker, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the city of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Teatro Communale Firenze, under the direction ofamong other directors, Chailly, Barenboim, Maazel, Muti and Rattle. In August of the same year he returned to the London Proms to act with the BBCSO under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg.
Maxim Vengérov made several recordings for the label Melodiya, Soviet music ancient, and released their first album of recitals under the production of Biddulph, a small record label English. His real entry in the record world occurred at age 15, when he signed an exclusive contract with Teldec Classics. In May 2000 concluded the contract and signed with EMI Classics.
He has recorded, among others, the violin concertos by Bruch and Mendelssohn with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, under the direction of Kurt Masur, the concertos of Shostakovich and Prokofiev with the Symphony Orchestra of London and Mstislav Rostropóvich, which also recorded Stravinsky and Shchedrin, of Britten, concerts and concert for viola from Walton.
He plays a violin built by Antonio Stradivarius "Kreutzer" of 1727.
In 1997 Maksim Vengérov was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador is the first performer of classical music which has received such appointment.
He is currently a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of music in London.
8. Anne Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter was born on June 29, 1963, and is a German virtuoso violinist born in the town of Rheinfelden in Baden, Germany.
He began playing the piano at the age of five years. Shortly thereafter he began to play the violin, studying with the masters Erna Honigberger and Aida Stücki.
After winning several awards he devoted himself exclusively to music, to obtain an exemption from school attendance. At the age of thirteen the director Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Later, in 1977, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival with the English Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim.
At the age of fifteen years, Anne-Sophie Mutter again made his first recording of the K.216 and K.219 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart violin concertos with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. That same year he was awarded the distinction of artist of the year.
In 1980 he made his United States debut with the Orchestra of New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. In 1985, with 22 years of age, she was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music (London) and Director of the program of international studies of violin at the same Academy. In 1988 he made an extensive tour of Canada and the United States, playing for the first time at the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 1998 he played and recorded on CD and DVD the integral of the Ludwig van Beethoven violin sonatas, accompanied on the piano by Lambert Orkis; which were broadcast on television in different countries.
Although his repertoire includes many works of the classical and romantic period, Anne-Sophie Mutter is especially renowned for its performances of music by contemporary composers. In addition, several works have been specially written or dedicated to her, including parts of Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Additionally, Mutter has received numerous awards, including several Grammy Awards and also usually plays two violins built by Antonio Stradivarius: an Emiliani of 1703 which belongs, and a Lord Dunn-Raven of 1710 that has been given.
In 1989, Anne-Sophie Mutter married the lawyer Detlef Wunderlich, with whom he had two sons: Arabella and Richard. Wunderlich died in 1995. In the year 2002, Mutter married for the second time the pianist, composer and director André Previn. The couple legally separated in 2006.
It is considered one of the leading violinists of today.
Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2008 received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, which is accompanied with a donation of 200,000 euros cash. The violinist donated half of the prize money to the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, which is established during the course of the same year. The objective of the Foundation is to promote worldwide promises support for young musicians, a work which the violinist already took into account since 1997 when he founded The Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation.
The prize Prince of Asturias and other distinctions has been awarded the cross of merit of Germany, the French Legion of honour.
9. Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn (Lexington, Virginia, United States, on November 27, 1979), is an American violinist, winner of two Grammy Awards.
Child prodigy, at age 8 moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he began to study violin one month before the age of 4 years, at the Cacabody Conservatory. He gave his first recital at age 9.
Between 1984 and 1989 he studied with Klara Berkovich. In 1990, at the age of 10, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied under the tutelage of Jascha Brodsky over the next 7 years. In 1991 he made his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
His international debut was in 1995, when he played with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio under the baton of Lorin Maazel the Concerto for violin and Orchestra by Beethoven.
It fulfilled the requirements to graduate at age 16 at the Curtis Institute, but he decided to stay there some years more to receive several elective courses of literature, poetry, English, German, and history. During this time he practiced the violin with Jaime Laredo, and studied chamber music, counterpoint, harmony, history of music, and composition and conducting, although he said in an interview that the discipline that most interested is interpretation. He graduated in 1999.
In 1996 he signed an exclusive contract with Sony Classical, record label with which he has recorded 5 albums. After the expiration of the contract in 2002, and because of differences in criteria in his following recordings, Hilary decided not to renew his contract with Sony, to sign another exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, company with which to date has recorded 4 albums in 2003.
He has toured the world playing with, to name some, the Symphonic Orchestra of London, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, or the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Apart from his solo career, he has participated in several festivals of Chamber music.
In addition, he played the part of violin soloist on the soundtrack of the film the forest (The Village), M. Night Shyamalan, composed by James Newton Howard, and has collaborated with the band And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.
Hilary plays a violin Vuillaume of 1864 which belonged to the Russian violinist Samuel Lande, friend of Klara Berkovich, and uses bows manufactured by Paul Jombar and Emil Miquel.
Discography Sony Classical:
Hilary Hahn Plays Bach (1997)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
Beethoven Violin Concerto/Bernstein Serenade (1999)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
: David Zinman, conductor
: Grammy Nominee - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra
Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos (2000)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
: Hugh Wolff, conductor
Brahms & Stravinsky Violin Concertos (2001)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields
: Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance (with orchestra)
Mendelssohn & Shostakovich Concertos (2002)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
: Marek Janowski and Hugh Wolff, conductors
Hollywood Records:
The Village (film) Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004)
: Hilary Hahn, featured violinist
: Music composed by James Newton Howard
Deutsche Grammophon:
Bach Concertos (2003)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Margaret Batjer, violin; Allan Vogel, oboe
: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (2004)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres
: Colin Davis, conductor
Mozart Violin Sonatas (2005)
: Hilary Hahn, violin; Natalie Zhu, piano
Paganini: Violin Concerto no. 1; Louis Spohr: Violin Concerto no. 8 (2006)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
: Eiji Oue, conductor
Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2008)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
: Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Higdon & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos (2010)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
: Vasily Petrenko, conductor.
10. Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang (Philadelphia, United States, on December 10, 1980) is an American classical violinist of Korean descent.
Sarah conducted an audition at the Juilliard Academy of music when he was 6 years old, playing the Bruch violin concerto. She was admitted to the class of Dorothy DeLay, teacher of violin of some of the greatest violinists in the world such as Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, including Chang's father.
Chang was recognized as a child prodigy since I was very little, and when I was 8 years old had the opportunity to play for such important names in music such as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who worked with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra respectively. The 9 was the youngest violinist to record an album. Jascha Heifetz, another famous child prodigy recorded when she was 11 years old.
In an interview his teacher said that no one had ever seen "something like it"
Yehudi Menuhin called it "the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard".
Discography
1992 Debut
1993 Johannes Brahms; Tschaikowsky
1996 Édouard Lalo; Vieuxtemps
1997 Simply Sarah
1998 Jean Sibelius; Mendelsohn-Barholdy
1999 Sweet Sorrow
2000 Karl Goldmark; Orcesta Gürzenich (James Conlon)
2001 Fire and Ice
2002 Antonín Dvořák, P. Tschaikowsky
2003 Classical Legends (compilation)
2004 French sonatas (Lars Vogt)
2004 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sinfonies; Tracing Lark (The Lark Ascending) (Bernard Haitink)
2005 Andrew Lloyd Webber: Phantasy/Woman in White
2006 Dmitri Shostakovich
2007 Antonio Vivaldi
2009 Max Bruch & Johannes Brahms Violin Concertos.
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Joshua Bell (Bloomington, Indiana, on December 9, 1967). American violinist.
His first contact with the world of music goes back to when he was four years old. "My parents introduced me to the sound of the violin," he said. "Wasn't I who elected him".
He studied violin at the Indiana University under the direction of Josef Gingold. At the age of fourteen he appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti. He made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1985 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Since then he has played with orchestras and the most important directors in the world.
In addition to interpret the normal concert repertoire, Bell has performed new works - Nicholas Maw dedicated his violin concerto, which Bell premiered in 1993. Interpreted the part of soloist of the soundtrack composed by John Corigliano for the film "The Red Violin" film for which he received an Oscar for best original score. He also plays Chamber music.
Currently a violin Stradivarius of 1713 called the Gibson ex Huberman (given that it formerly belonged to the violinist Bronislaw Huberman), for which he paid a price close to the 3.5 million of dollars.
One cold morning in January, 2007, at the station of the metro in Washington, D.C., a man with a violin in his hands touched six pieces of music of Bach, for about 45 minutes.
During that time about 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on the way to work. After three minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He stopped to listen for a few seconds and then hastened to his tryst with destiny.
4 minutes later the violinist received his first dollar: a woman throws money in the hat that was on the floor and continues walking without stopping.
6 minutes later a young man stops and leans on the wall to listen to him, then look at your watch and begins to walk again.
10 minutes later a three-year-old boy stops but his mother begins to pull him and motivates him to walk and hurry. The boy continues, but from time to time turns head to look. The same action was repeated by several other children. All parents, without exception, forced their children to move quickly.
45 minutes later the musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short time. Around 20 people gave him money without stopping to listen. In total the man collected $32.
1 hour later man ended his violin playing and silence took over everything. Nobody noticed it. No one applauded, there was no acknowledgment.
Nobody knew it, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the largest in the world. Joshua touched some of the musical pieces more intricate ever written, with a violin valued at about 3. 5 million dollars. Two days before the violinist had played in a Boston theater to packed House, where seats were sold with an average of about $100.
The story is true. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the railway station, was an event organized by the Washington Post newspaper as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and human priorities.
7. Maxim Vengerov
Maxim Aleksándrovich Vengérov is a Russian violinist, born August 20, 1974 in Novosibirsk.
Maxim Vengérov was born in Novosibirsk, the capital of Western Siberia, in August 1974. At the age of ten, he won first prize at the Poland Junior Wieniawski violin competition, having first studied with Galina Turtschaninova and, subsequently, the distinguished pedagogue Zakhar Bron, in the former Soviet Union.
He regularly gave concerts in Moscow and Leningrad and soon began performing debuts as a soloist with the Royal Concergebouworkest and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Valeri Gérgiev at the Lichfield Festival in the United Kingdom, as well as with the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, under the direction of Yuri Siminiov, during an extensive tour of Italy.
Among their first debuts in recitals, are offered at the Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
In addition to winning first prize in the Carl Flesch competition, in July 1990, Vengerov received the audience award and special prizes to the interpretation. In the fall of 1990, he moved to Tel Aviv.
In the season 1990/91 made his American debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as his appearance with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Israel in Tel Aviv and during a tour of the United States. He has collaborated with many conductors, including notably, Yuri Temirkánov, Barenboim, Abbado, Mehta, Menuhin, Giulini, Sawallisch, and Mariss Jansons.
The season 1993/94 performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, the Philadelphia and the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of London, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Vengerov and his companion, Itamar Golan, regularly offered recitals in the musical centers of greater world-wide prestige, including - in the season 1993/94 - New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Munich and Salzburg.
In the season 1994/95 made a tour with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra by Italy and South America. She performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmoniker, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Wiener Philharmoniker, the city of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Teatro Communale Firenze, under the direction ofamong other directors, Chailly, Barenboim, Maazel, Muti and Rattle. In August of the same year he returned to the London Proms to act with the BBCSO under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg.
Maxim Vengérov made several recordings for the label Melodiya, Soviet music ancient, and released their first album of recitals under the production of Biddulph, a small record label English. His real entry in the record world occurred at age 15, when he signed an exclusive contract with Teldec Classics. In May 2000 concluded the contract and signed with EMI Classics.
He has recorded, among others, the violin concertos by Bruch and Mendelssohn with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, under the direction of Kurt Masur, the concertos of Shostakovich and Prokofiev with the Symphony Orchestra of London and Mstislav Rostropóvich, which also recorded Stravinsky and Shchedrin, of Britten, concerts and concert for viola from Walton.
He plays a violin built by Antonio Stradivarius "Kreutzer" of 1727.
In 1997 Maksim Vengérov was named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador is the first performer of classical music which has received such appointment.
He is currently a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of music in London.
8. Anne Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter was born on June 29, 1963, and is a German virtuoso violinist born in the town of Rheinfelden in Baden, Germany.
He began playing the piano at the age of five years. Shortly thereafter he began to play the violin, studying with the masters Erna Honigberger and Aida Stücki.
After winning several awards he devoted himself exclusively to music, to obtain an exemption from school attendance. At the age of thirteen the director Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Later, in 1977, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival with the English Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim.
At the age of fifteen years, Anne-Sophie Mutter again made his first recording of the K.216 and K.219 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart violin concertos with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. That same year he was awarded the distinction of artist of the year.
In 1980 he made his United States debut with the Orchestra of New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. In 1985, with 22 years of age, she was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music (London) and Director of the program of international studies of violin at the same Academy. In 1988 he made an extensive tour of Canada and the United States, playing for the first time at the Carnegie Hall in New York. In 1998 he played and recorded on CD and DVD the integral of the Ludwig van Beethoven violin sonatas, accompanied on the piano by Lambert Orkis; which were broadcast on television in different countries.
Although his repertoire includes many works of the classical and romantic period, Anne-Sophie Mutter is especially renowned for its performances of music by contemporary composers. In addition, several works have been specially written or dedicated to her, including parts of Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wolfgang Rihm and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Additionally, Mutter has received numerous awards, including several Grammy Awards and also usually plays two violins built by Antonio Stradivarius: an Emiliani of 1703 which belongs, and a Lord Dunn-Raven of 1710 that has been given.
In 1989, Anne-Sophie Mutter married the lawyer Detlef Wunderlich, with whom he had two sons: Arabella and Richard. Wunderlich died in 1995. In the year 2002, Mutter married for the second time the pianist, composer and director André Previn. The couple legally separated in 2006.
It is considered one of the leading violinists of today.
Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2008 received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, which is accompanied with a donation of 200,000 euros cash. The violinist donated half of the prize money to the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, which is established during the course of the same year. The objective of the Foundation is to promote worldwide promises support for young musicians, a work which the violinist already took into account since 1997 when he founded The Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation.
The prize Prince of Asturias and other distinctions has been awarded the cross of merit of Germany, the French Legion of honour.
9. Hilary Hahn
Hilary Hahn (Lexington, Virginia, United States, on November 27, 1979), is an American violinist, winner of two Grammy Awards.
Child prodigy, at age 8 moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he began to study violin one month before the age of 4 years, at the Cacabody Conservatory. He gave his first recital at age 9.
Between 1984 and 1989 he studied with Klara Berkovich. In 1990, at the age of 10, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied under the tutelage of Jascha Brodsky over the next 7 years. In 1991 he made his debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
His international debut was in 1995, when he played with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio under the baton of Lorin Maazel the Concerto for violin and Orchestra by Beethoven.
It fulfilled the requirements to graduate at age 16 at the Curtis Institute, but he decided to stay there some years more to receive several elective courses of literature, poetry, English, German, and history. During this time he practiced the violin with Jaime Laredo, and studied chamber music, counterpoint, harmony, history of music, and composition and conducting, although he said in an interview that the discipline that most interested is interpretation. He graduated in 1999.
In 1996 he signed an exclusive contract with Sony Classical, record label with which he has recorded 5 albums. After the expiration of the contract in 2002, and because of differences in criteria in his following recordings, Hilary decided not to renew his contract with Sony, to sign another exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, company with which to date has recorded 4 albums in 2003.
He has toured the world playing with, to name some, the Symphonic Orchestra of London, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, or the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Apart from his solo career, he has participated in several festivals of Chamber music.
In addition, he played the part of violin soloist on the soundtrack of the film the forest (The Village), M. Night Shyamalan, composed by James Newton Howard, and has collaborated with the band And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.
Hilary plays a violin Vuillaume of 1864 which belonged to the Russian violinist Samuel Lande, friend of Klara Berkovich, and uses bows manufactured by Paul Jombar and Emil Miquel.
Discography Sony Classical:
Hilary Hahn Plays Bach (1997)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
Beethoven Violin Concerto/Bernstein Serenade (1999)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
: David Zinman, conductor
: Grammy Nominee - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra
Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos (2000)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
: Hugh Wolff, conductor
Brahms & Stravinsky Violin Concertos (2001)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields
: Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
: Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist (s) Performance (with orchestra)
Mendelssohn & Shostakovich Concertos (2002)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
: Marek Janowski and Hugh Wolff, conductors
Hollywood Records:
The Village (film) Motion Picture Soundtrack (2004)
: Hilary Hahn, featured violinist
: Music composed by James Newton Howard
Deutsche Grammophon:
Bach Concertos (2003)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Margaret Batjer, violin; Allan Vogel, oboe
: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (2004)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres
: Colin Davis, conductor
Mozart Violin Sonatas (2005)
: Hilary Hahn, violin; Natalie Zhu, piano
Paganini: Violin Concerto no. 1; Louis Spohr: Violin Concerto no. 8 (2006)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
: Eiji Oue, conductor
Schoenberg/Sibelius: Violin Concertos (2008)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
: Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Higdon & Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos (2010)
: Hilary Hahn, violin
: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
: Vasily Petrenko, conductor.
10. Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang (Philadelphia, United States, on December 10, 1980) is an American classical violinist of Korean descent.
Sarah conducted an audition at the Juilliard Academy of music when he was 6 years old, playing the Bruch violin concerto. She was admitted to the class of Dorothy DeLay, teacher of violin of some of the greatest violinists in the world such as Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, including Chang's father.
Chang was recognized as a child prodigy since I was very little, and when I was 8 years old had the opportunity to play for such important names in music such as Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti, who worked with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra respectively. The 9 was the youngest violinist to record an album. Jascha Heifetz, another famous child prodigy recorded when she was 11 years old.
In an interview his teacher said that no one had ever seen "something like it"
Yehudi Menuhin called it "the most wonderful, the most perfect, the most ideal violinist I have ever heard".
Discography
1992 Debut
1993 Johannes Brahms; Tschaikowsky
1996 Édouard Lalo; Vieuxtemps
1997 Simply Sarah
1998 Jean Sibelius; Mendelsohn-Barholdy
1999 Sweet Sorrow
2000 Karl Goldmark; Orcesta Gürzenich (James Conlon)
2001 Fire and Ice
2002 Antonín Dvořák, P. Tschaikowsky
2003 Classical Legends (compilation)
2004 French sonatas (Lars Vogt)
2004 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sinfonies; Tracing Lark (The Lark Ascending) (Bernard Haitink)
2005 Andrew Lloyd Webber: Phantasy/Woman in White
2006 Dmitri Shostakovich
2007 Antonio Vivaldi
2009 Max Bruch & Johannes Brahms Violin Concertos.
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