USA: EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD VIOLINIST HILARY HAHN RELEASES HER SECOND ALBUM

Record ID: 388214

  • Title: USA: EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD VIOLINIST HILARY HAHN RELEASES HER SECOND ALBUM
  • Date: 7th April 1999
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK (MARCH 12, 1999) (REUTERS) SOUNDBITE (English) HAHN SAYING: "I'm always trying to be more musical and make things more interesting for the audience. Like if I play something twice I try to play it differently the second time from the first time. And another thing I love doing is when I am on stage with an orchestra, there are all these musicians around
  • Embargoed: 22nd April 1999 13:00
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  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA24LK6DG3JUIXIVQD85RA0IFPH
  • Story Text: Eighteen-year-old violinist Hilary Hahn has released her second recording, an unusual coupling of the Beethoven "Violin Concerto" and the Bernstein "Serenade." Though she has already achieved recognition as a major musical talent, Hahn remains down to earth and focused on her future.
    Though Hilary Hahn was one of the youngest exclusive artists in Sony Classical's century long history, she carefully avoided the child prodigy's temptation to do too much too soon.She stayed in school and completed her Bachelor's degree and continues to pace herself very carefully.This approach has given her a wonderful outlook about her music and her future.
    "I'm always trying to be more musical and make things more interesting for the audience.Like "I'm always trying to be more musical and make things more interesting for the audience."
    For her second recording, Hanh renews her special relationship with David Zinman and her hometown Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.Both conductor and orchestra have been mentors and colleagues to Hahn since she was a 10-year-old prodigy.This recording was made in Balitmore's Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, where Zinman and other musicians first heard Hahn play.
    Speaking about coupling of Beethoven's "Violin Concerto in D Major" and Leonard Bernstein's "Serenade" Hahn says, "I was looking at the Bernstein and I was thinking Beethoven and Bernstein and I though, "Why not?" I thought about it and in a way they are very different from each other and they set each other off very well.But also in a way, they are similar, they have the same kind of overall effect, I think."
    Other highlights of Hahn's 1998/9 season include performances of the Brahms Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Stravinsky Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, and quintets of Dvorak and Mozart with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre.In Europe, Hahn will perform recitals in London, frankfurt, Florence and Milan; she will also appear as soloist with orchestras in Berlin, Hamburg, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Zurich and northern Spain.
    Admitted to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at the age of ten, hahn made her widely publicised major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in December 1991, aged 11.
    When she is on tour, she corresponds with schoolchildren in the US.Electronic postcards taken by her personal digital camera can be seen on her website at www.sonyclassical.com.
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