Thursday, March 6, 2008

FWSO Gala feature virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn

By Pegasus News wire

Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn joins the Fort Worth Symphony and Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya for a special one-night-only gala performance on April 22 at Bass Performance Hall. Hahn will perform Tchaikovsky’s melodic Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35. The concert also includes the last movement from Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Opus 64 and selections from Stravinsky’s Firebird. The concert begins at 7 p.m.

Hilary Hahn

At the age of 28, Hahn is one of the most compelling artists on the international concert circuit. Renowned for her intellectual and emotional maturity, she was named “America's Best” young classical musician by Time Magazine in 2001, and appears on a regular basis with the world's great orchestras in Europe, Asia and North America.

Recent appearances include those with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke's (at Carnegie Hall), Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Tonhalle Orchester, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and KBS Symphony Orchestra of Korea.

Hahn has released several best-selling classical CDs and has collaborated with non-classical musicians including ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Tom Brosseau. She can also be heard as featured soloist on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack to M. Night Shyamalan's film The Village.

Admitted to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in 1990 at age 10, Hahn made her major orchestra debut a year and a half later with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. At 15, she made her German debut playing the Beethoven concerto with Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert broadcast on radio and television throughout Europe. Two months later she received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In 1996 Ms. Hahn signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in New York as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Tickets are $20 - $99 and are available online at www.fwsymphony.org, by telephone at 817-665-6000, or by visiting the FWSO Ticket Office at 330 E. Fourth Street, Suite 200, in downtown Fort Worth. The ticket office is open from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday.

Following the concert, the gala dinner will be held at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. Mercedes T. Bass is chairman of the event; Adele Hart is co-chairman. The gala dinner is not included with concert tickets. Individual tickets for the gala dinner are $250 and tables begin at $2,500; call (817) 665-6500, ext. 118 for reservations.

Source: FWSO

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