Career:هیلاری هان

In 2001, Time Magazine named Hahn as “America’s Best” young classical musician ^[1]. Throughout her career, Hahn has performed with countless orchestras around the globe. Hahn now records exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon and previously recorded five albums with Sony Classical.

In 1996 Sony Music signed Hahn to an exclusive recording contract, which made her one of the youngest exclusive artists in the label’s history (Sony Bio). Hahn’s first recording, released in 1997, featured selected Solo Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach, and spent weeks as a bestseller on the Billboard classical charts. Her following recording was released in 1999, and included the Beethoven Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp, and Percussion. This compilation earned Hahn her first Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra. The album also appeared as a classical bestseller on the international record charts (Sony Bio). In September 1999, Hahn gave the world premiere performance of the Edgar Meyer Violin Concerto with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Hugh Wolff. Meyer commissioned and wrote the violin concerto specifically for Hahn (Sony Bio). A week after the live performance, Hahn recorded Meyer’s work along with Samuel Barber’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. The two pieces were released by Sony Classical in March 2000 and would later spend several weeks on the Billboard classical charts. The recordings earned Hahn the German Music Critics’ Award and a cover story in the magazine Gramophone. Hahn won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) for her fourth album released in 2001, which featured Johannes Brahms' Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra and the Stravinsky Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra. The album was also Hahn’s fourth consecutive classical bestseller.

In addition to being a solo violinist, Hahn has also performed as a chamber musician. Since the summer of 1992 she has performed nearly every year with the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival in Skaneateles, New York. Between 1995 and 2000 she spent performing and studying chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and in 1996 she served as an artist and a member of the chamber music mentoring program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.