Hilary Hahn

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Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn (born 1979) is well-known on the international concert circuit, recognized for playing contemporary as well as traditional classical compositions. She was named "America's Best" young classical musician by Time Magazine in 2001, and appears regularly with the world's great orchestras in Europe, Asia, and North America. In her won words, her stylistic choices "honor the traditional violin literature while delving into the unexpected." <a href="https://

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5 total works indexed

1. Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework

   · 2005 · cited 29,220x

2. Global Prevalence of Diabetes

   · 2004 · cited 10,392x

3. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,740x

4. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,604x

5. Extended-Connectivity Fingerprints

   · 2010 · cited 6,559x

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Quotes

• “Bach is, for me, the touchstone that keeps my playing honest. Keeping the intonation pure in double stops, bringing out the various voices where the phrasing requires it, crossing the strings so that there are not inadvertent accents, presenting the structure in such a way that it's clear to the listener without being pedantic - one can't fake things in Bach, and if one gets all of them to work, the music sings in the most wonderful way.”
• “Interpretation is as improvisation as improvising from silence is. It is just a different way of looking at it. When you improvise form interpretation you have certain dramatic ideas, you have a certain structure. But you know that everything that is in that is relative and flexible. Even pitch can be a matter of interpretation. Rhythm is relative.”
• “It is not like we have a piece written out that we improvise on. We know where we are going but we don’t know how we are going to get there.”
• “What do I really want to do, and what will help me continue to be creative, and what will lead me towards being the artist that I want to be in the end.”
• “I’m kind of at the point where I’m doing the second of those things and surprised by what I have done. And it is not necessarily a big master plan, but I look at the number of recordings I’ve made and I’m kind of shocked.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1979-11-27 ) November 27, 1979 (age 46) , Lexington, Virginia , U.S.

Genres

Classical

Occupation

Musician

Instruments

Violin 1864 J.-B. Vuillaume ( Il Cannone Guarneri reproduction) 1865 J.-B. Vuillaume ( Alard Stradivarius loose reproduction)

Years active

1991–present

Labels

Deutsche Grammophon Sony Classical Decca Classics

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Official website

www.hilaryhahn.com

Image

Bremen- Hahn21 (cropped).jpg

Number of children

2

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