Augustin Hadelich

The son of German parents, Augustin Hadelich was born in Italy in 1984 and is now an American citizen. He began playing violin at the age of five, receiving lessons from Uto Ughi, Christoph Poppen, Igor Ozim, and Norbert Brainin, and performed internationally as a child. He later studied at the Instituto Mascagni in Livorno and, from 2004 to 2007, with Joel Smirnoff at the Juilliard School in New York. He won the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2006, received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in New York in 2009, and was honored by the granting of a fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust in 2011. Since then, Hadelich has performed with the leading American symphony orchestras, as well as with major European orchestras. In the 2024-25 season, he appeared with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, among others. Last season, he was artist-in-residence with the Dresden Philharmonic and went on tour with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Augustin Hadelich is a regular guest at major festivals, including Salzburg, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Aspen, the BBC Proms, Verbier, and the Hollywood Bowl. He has received numerous awards for his albums, including a Grammy Award in 2016 for his recording of Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des songes and the Opus Klassik in 2021 for the album Bohemian Tales featuring Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. Most recently, in 2024, he released American Road Trip with works by American composers as well as jazz and fiddle music as a tribute to his adoptive country. Hadelich has taught at the Yale School of Music since 2021. He plays a 1744 Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù violin that previously belonged to the Polish violinist Henryk Szeryng.

Lucerne Festival (IMF) debut at the age of 12 on 20 August 1996 with the Festival Strings Lucerne in a violin concerto by Vivaldi.

April 2025