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This page is one part bulletin board, one part index, and one part home to certain regular updates. A smorgasbord it is, but with a consistent flavor: what's new on HilaryHahn.com. Skim through this page for links to this site's latest opinion-interviews, news tidbits, and journal entries, or click on the brand-new Weekly Currents and Recording Watch features to track my practice-room progress, in-studio work, and "extra-career-cular" (dorky, I know!) choices. If any special events bear mention, or if I have any urgent information to impart, you can find those notices on this page as well.
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New on the site and other news:
Hilary will appear on "The Late Show with Conan O'Brien" on January 14!
Bach: Violin and Voice was released on January 12, 2009. The new album features baritone Matthias Goerne and soprano Christine Schafer, and the Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Alexander Liebreich. Click to hear clips and order!
Latest Journal Entries:
October 6 - Barcelona (from 2006)
September 22 - Anecdote with Paste
September 8 - Anecdote Musikverein
 Hilary performed at the Grammy Awards pre-telecast show on Sunday, February 8, and accepted the award for Best Instrumental Soloist with Orchestra for Schoenberg & Sibelius Violin Concertos! Watch a replay of the webcast at Grammy.com.
Schoenberg & Sibelius Violin Concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra! The album was also nominated for Best Classical Album. The 51st Annual Grammy Awards were held February 8, 2009.
Hilary has won Gramophone's Artist of the Year award!
"Hilary Hahn is the 2008 Classic FM Gramophone Award Artist of The Year. Now in its 30th year, the awards were announced September 25, 2008 in London's Dorchester Hotel." Thanks a million to everyone who voted for me! Click here to read more.
Hilary's YouTube channel has new videos!
The comic strip "9 Chickwood Lane" by Brooke McEldowney recently featured Hilary in a series of cartoons, and still more have been added! Click to read them
Congratulations to 14-year-old Sayre P., winner of the Schoenburger Contest! Click here to read the winning recipe. Congratulations also to 22-year-old Daniel Fuchs for an Honorable Mention.
NPR's From The Top interviewed Hilary on September 10 - click here to read it
Itty-Bitty News:
Mr. Schoenberg Hits the Tube includes info about Hilary's YouTube channel
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Schoenberg & Sibelius Violin Concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra opened at #1 on the Billboard Classical charts, and has spent 24 straight weeks in the top ten!
Hilary was featured on NPR Morning Edition with John Ritter on May 22. Click to read the story and listen to clips!
Read Hilary's blog article about collaborative trends written for the National Performing Arts Convention at ArtsJournal.
Click to listen to a radio interview from WRCJ in Detroit. Select 4/20/08 DSO Unmasked - Behind the Score, with Hilary Hahn
Click to watch the Danish television program featuring Hilary that she described in her February 25 journal entry. Hilary's segment begins at 02:30 and includes several pieces. The link should launch your Windows Media Player - if not, try the tv show's program listings and select the link for Program 97.
Fan Art: More new works created by Hilary's talented fans
Listen to an interview with George Walker at WFIU Radio where Hilary discusses recording her current recital tour as well as recollecting some early memories.
Favorites:
What to Do with an Instrument You're No Longer Using
What to Do with Your Instrument When You're Bored
Hilary Hahn: A Portrait is now available. The DVD includes the documentary Hilary Hahn - On the Road, broadcast on German television in 2005, which follows the violinist from continent to continent as she talks about her life and her music, takes in local sights, rehearses and performs. Also included are backstage moments and a visit to the Curtis Institute where she studied, plus live performance excerpts from the Korngold Violin Concerto with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and a Mozart sonata with pianist Natalie Zhu. Click to read more and view excerpts
Also available now are an album of Paganini & Spohr Concertos performed with the Swedish Radio Symphony; and The Hilary Hahn Collection, a three-CD box set that includes the Grammy-winning Brahms & Stravinsky Violin Concertos, Grammy nominee Beethoven Violin Concerto and Bernstein Serenade, and Hilary's debut CD of solo Bach Partitas.
Listen to an interview with Steve Murphy from WFMR Radio in Milwaukee, recorded October 17, 2006. Hilary talks about performing the Britten Violin Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and how she selects and prepares to perform new pieces
Check out Hilary's List of Music You Should Hear at Amazon.com
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