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New Haven Symphony Orchestra
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ngallego@newhavensymphony.org
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Northern Lights
New Haven, CT, September 24, 2008: Join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Boughton for Northern Lights: Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm at Woolsey Hall. On the program: Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite, Shostakovitch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 featuring violin virtuoso Augustin Hadelich, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1.
Lauded as a “brilliant violinist” by the New York Times, Augustin Hadelich made his Carnegie Hall debut in January 2008, performing the Brahms Double Concerto under Miguel Harth-Bedoya with cellist Alban Gerhardt and the Fort Worth Symphony. He returned for his recital debut in March and will make his third Carnegie Hall appearance December 24, 2008, playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with the New York String Orchestra. Mr Hadelich is the gold medallist of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
In addition to his NHSO debut, highlights of Mr. Hadelich’s 2008-09 season are debuts with the Alabama Symphony, Hamburg Camerata, IRIS Chamber Orchestra (Tennessee), Jacksonville Symphony, Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Budapest), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, and Tokyo Symphony. In addition, he played recitals at Kioi Hall (Tokyo), Namikiri Hall (Osaka), the La Jolla Music Society, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He will also participate in an east coast tour with artists from the Marlboro Music Festival. The 2007-08 season marked his professional recording debut with two CDs for Naxos: the complete violin concerti of Haydn and the complete solo violin fantasies of Telemann.
Born in Italy in 1984, the son of German parents, he holds a diploma (summa cum laude) from the Instituto Mascagni in Livorno, Italy, as well as a graduate diploma and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. As first-prize winner of the Indianapolis competition, Mr. Hadelich plays the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivari violin and uses a Tourte bow.
During his visit in New Haven Mr. Hadelich will conduct a masterclass at the Yale University School of Music. Violin students of Syoko Aki Erle, Professor of Violin School of Music at Yale will perform for Mr. Hadelich.
The concert also commemorates the NHSO’s fifth annual School Night at the Symphony (SNATS). The NHSO is offering FREE tickets to all greater New Haven grade 1-12 students, faculty and their families. For SNATS tickets, contact Education Director Steve Collins at scollins@newhavnsymphony.org or 203-931-2998.
Subscriptions ($60-370) and Single tickets ($10-65) can be purchased through the NHSO box office at the Shubert Theater, 247 College Street in New Haven, (203) 562-5666 or by visiting newhavensymphony.org.
All programs subject to change without notice.
