Augustin Hadelich

Gold medallist at the Indianapolis competition in 2006, Augustin Hadelich has performed the central concertos, works by Britten, Ligeti and Adès, and the Dutilleux concerto whose recording with the Seattle Symphony won a Grammy in 2016. Born in Italy in 1984 to German parents, he began with his father and took his Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School with Joel Smirnoff. Bach's complete Sonatas and Partitas and the Czech programme Bohemian Tales are among his discs; American Road Trip, made with the pianist Orion Weiss, took the 2025 Opus Klassik for chamber recording of the year. He joined the violin faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2021 and was artist in residence with the Boston Symphony in the 2025/26 season. He plays the 1744 "Leduc, ex-Szeryng" Guarneri del Gesù. Before New York he finished his studies at the Pietro Mascagni Institute in Livorno, and the years after Indianapolis brought the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2011 and the first Warner Music Prize in 2015. He has recorded exclusively for Warner Classics since the Paganini Caprices of 2018, was an associate artist of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester from 2019 to 2023, and in 2023 gave the German premiere, at the Philharmonie Berlin, of the concerto Donnacha Dennehy wrote for him.