I have enjoyed the playing of violinist Hilary hahn since the times when she came to California to give concerts, and she was accompanied by her father. She is older now… married and a Mom…
Hilary Hahn, began playing the violin one month before her fourth birthday in the Suzuki Program of Baltimore’s Peabody Institute. She participated in a Suzuki class for a year. Between 1984 and 1989 Hahn studied in Baltimore under Russian émigré Klara Berkovich. In 1990, at 10, Hahn was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she became a student of Jascha Brodsky.
Hahn studied with Brodsky for seven years and learned the études of Kreutzer, Ševčík, Gaviniès, Rode, and the Paganini Caprices. She learned 28 violin concertos, recital programs, and several other short pieces.
In 1991, Hilary Hahn made her major orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Soon thereafter, Hahn debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
Here is Ms. Hahn in the Caprice #24 by Paganini:
