About this Artist
Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Known for his phenomenal technique, insightful and persuasive interpretations, and ravishing tone, he appears extensively on the world’s foremost concert stages. Hadelich has performed with all the major American orchestras as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and many other eminent ensembles.
In the 2025 summer festival season, Hadelich appeared with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood Music Festival, Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, and Orchestre de Paris at the Lucerne Festival, as well as BBC Proms in London, Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.
In the 2025/26 season, Hadelich was the Artist in Residence with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, featured in concerto, chamber music, and solo recital formats. He also appeared with the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, New World Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Further invitations bring him to Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Bamberg Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Vienna Symphony, WDR Radio Symphony Cologne, Festival Strings Lucerne, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Barcelona Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, NCPA Orchestra Beijing, Orchestre National de Lyon, and São Paulo Symphony. In April 2026, he was in residence at the Tongyeong International Music Festival in South Korea. Recitals take him to New York, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Graz, Heidelberg, Cremona, and Taipei.
Hadelich’s discography reflects his stylistic versatility and encompasses much of the violin repertoire. In 2016, he received a Grammy Award for his recording of Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto, “L’Arbre des songes,” with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. A Warner Classics Artist, he released his most recent album, American Road Trip, a journey through the landscape of American music with pianist Orion Weiss, in August 2024; it received an Opus Klassik award in 2025 for Chamber Music Recording of the Year. Other albums for Warner Classics include Paganini – 24 Caprices (2018); Brahms, Ligeti Violin Concertos (2019); the Grammy-nominated Bohemian Tales, which includes the Dvořák Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jakub Hrůša (2020); the Grammy-nominated recording of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas (2021); and Recuerdos, a Spain-themed album featuring works by Sarasate, Tarrega, Prokofiev, and Britten (2022).
Augustin Hadelich, an American and German citizen born in Italy to German parents, rose to fame when he won the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Further distinctions followed, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), the UK’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in the UK (2017). In 2018, he was named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. Hadelich holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Joel Smirnoff, and in 2021, he was appointed to the violin faculty at the Yale School of Music. He plays a 1744 violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, known as “Leduc, ex-Szeryng,” on loan from the Tarisio Trust.