2025 Augustin Hadelich & Berliner Barock Solisten
2025-07-13｜by MNA
“Seamless.” “Masterfully controlled.” “Breath held in awe.”
In the second evening of their exclusive three-concert Asia tour, the legendary violinist Augustin Hadelich joined forces once again with the Berliner Barock Solisten, drawing a full house to the National Concert Hall in Taipei. Among the audience were glimmer-eyed children cradling violin cases, entire families of music lovers, all gathered for one reason: to hear that transcendent sound once more.
For he is among the greatest violinists of our time—one who conjures the soul of each note, making us believe it is a voice from heaven itself. 🌟🌙✨
From the crystalline elegance of Mozart—rendered with extraordinary grace by Hadelich and elevated by the refined cohesion of the Berliner Barock Solisten—to the dazzling brilliance of the evening’s finale, Carmen Fantasy, every moment unfolded like a river of music flowing with both abandon and precision, tension and unity.
🪽 With a tone as velvety as it is luminous, layered with clarity and depth, Hadelich’s playing speaks a language of its own. Each phrase delicately opens a fissure in time, letting emotion seep gently into the present.
Hadelich has long held the hearts of Taiwan’s young musicians. Each time he returns, countless students and their families flock to witness him live—drawn not only by virtuosity, but by the profound emotional resonance he evokes. In the sea of endless applause and heartfelt cheers, what they seek is simple: to meet that feeling again. 🌷
In the 2025 summer festivals season, Hadelich appears with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood Music Festival, Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, 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 will be the Artist in Residence with the Boston Symphony Orchestra where he will be featured in concerto, chamber music, and solo violin recital formats. He will also appear with the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, St Louis Symphony, 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, DSO Berlin, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra 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 will be 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 Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. A Warner Classics Artist, his most recent album “American Road Trip”, a journey through the landscape of American music with pianist Orion Weiss, was released in August 2024 and was awarded an OPUS KLASSIK in 2025 for Chamber Music Recording of the Year. Other albums for Warner Classics include Paganini’s “24 Caprices” (2018); Brahms and 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, a dual American-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), U.K.’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in the U. K. (2017). In 2018, he was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the influential magazine Musical America. Hadelich holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Joel Smirnoff, and in 2021, was appointed to the violin faculty at 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.
SEASON 2025 / 2026