Augustin Hadelich is one of the most outstanding violinists of our times. His concert tours regularly take him around the globe. He appears at major concert venues and international festivals and performs with top orchestras such as the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Los Angeles and the New York Philharmonics and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season included his residency with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and performances with other leading orchestras in the USA. In Europe he toured with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andris Nelsons, and performed with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zurich, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Bamberg Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic under Elim Chan and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Joana Mallwitz. This summer he appears with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic at the Edinburgh Festival, and is an Artiste étoile at the Lucerne Festival; he has also been artist in residence at the Tongyeong International Music Festival. Recital engagements have included performances at the Musikverein in Graz, the Heidelberg Spring Festival and throughout the USA. He also appeared alongside Seong-Jin Cho at the Ruhr Piano Festival and at Kissinger Sommer.
His discography documents his stylistic versatility. He won a Grammy Award for his recording of Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des songes. Since 2018 he has been an exclusive artist with Warner Classics, for which label his recordings include the violin concertos of Brahms and Ligeti, the album Bohemian Tales with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (OPUS Klassik 2021), Bach Sonatas & Partitas, Recuerdos, which features works by Britten, Prokofiev and Sarasate, and American Roadtrip with the pianist Orion Weiss (OPUS Klassik 2025).
Augustin Hadelich holds joint US and German citizenship and was born in Italy. He studied at the Juilliard School and has won awards at international violin competitions including that of Indianapolis. He was named ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ by Musical America, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter (UK). Since 2021 he has taught at the Yale School of Music.
Augustin Hadelich plays the ‘Leduc, ex Szeryng’ violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù (1744), on loan from the Tarisio Trust.
