Augustin Hadelich's Latest album: "American Road Trip"

Released on Warner Classics, the album was recorded with pianist Orion Weiss

Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich has just released hist latest album, "American Road Trip," recorded with pianist Orion Weiss and released on Warner Classics.

The CD presents works by American composers Charles Ives, Jascha Heifetz, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Amy Beach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Kroll, Manuel Ponce, Stephen Hartke, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Howdy Forrester, Eddie South, and Raimundo Penaforte.

Augustin Hadelich came to study in the United States from Italy. Since then, his career has taken him all over the world. This album showcases various musical styles and influences from his adoptive homeland, from bluegrass to European Romanticism, alongside banjo, Mexican and Japanese touches, and course jazz, to name a few.

"American Road Trip is about going on a journey to totally different stylistic places all over the country," Augustin Hadelich said. "I hope that it will inspire other violinists to add these pieces to their repertoire as well!"

You can learn more about the CD in this interview with Augustin.

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Augustin Hadelich has performed with all the major American orchestras as well as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concertgebouworkest, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and many other eminent ensembles. In 2016, he received a GRAMMY Award the “Best Classical Instrumental Solo” for his recording of Dutilleux’s violin concerto “L’Arbre des songes”.

Augustin Hadelich, a dual American-German citizen born in Italy to German parents, studied with Joel Smirnoff at New York’s Juilliard School. He achieved a major career breakthrough in 2006 by winning the International Violin Competition in Indianapolis. His accomplishments continued with the prestigious “Avery Fisher Career Grant” in 2009, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2011, an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter (UK) in December 2017, and being named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by “Musical America” in 2018.

In June 2021 Augustin Hadelich was appointed Professor in the Practice of Violin to the faculty of the Yale School of Music. He plays a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù from 1744, known as “Leduc, ex Szeryng”, on loan from the Tarisio Trust.

Pianist Orion Weiss has performed with dozens of orchestras in North America including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic. In the summer of 2011, Weiss made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood as a last-minute replacement for Leon Fleisher. In recent seasons, he has also performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and in duo summer concerts with the New York Philharmonic at both Lincoln Center and the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival. In 2005, he toured Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Itzhak Perlman.

Weiss’s impressive list of awards includes the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year, the Gilmore Young Artist Award, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant. A native of Lyndhurst, Ohio, Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Paul Schenly, Daniel Shapiro, Sergei Babayan, Kathryn Brown, and Edith Reed. In 2004, he graduated from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax.